Re: handle graphics

[Ole Jacob Hagen]

Hi,

Are you planning in implementing some kind of "handle graphics" in 
Octave, John?
I believe that Octave should be shipped with a common library for 
whoever who wants to implement a visualisation application to Octave.

This library is should be responsible that "handle-graphics" hierarchy 
are ensured.

Props-library in Oplot works in this way, if the code is "octaveized" 
and refactored.
Oplot works only as a "frontend", a visualisation application.

If this is wanted, then a frontend to every visualisation library that 
use a "props"-library would be made.
I know there are frontends to gnuplot written in Qt. This could be made 
in tcl/tk as well. Every visualisation application could satisfy these 
needs.

A props-similar library is then working as a handle-graphics framework, 
that every developer that makes a visualisation application to octave 
must use.
And Octave should be released  with such a library.

If I had enough time, I could e.g make a frontend to e.g gnuplot-4.x in 
Qt, using a "common handle graphics" framework to Octave.
This is just a proof of concept, and it's not very hard to implement....;-)

Am I thinking correctly?


Cheers,

Ole J.