Re: Merging graphics branch

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18-Jun-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | Actually, Matlab supports both. Value classes are what is currently
> | present in octave. Handle classes are somehow a generalization of
> | what the current graphics system implements, where objects act
> | more like pointers.
>
> OK, so should we be thinking about ways to implement the handle graphics
> system as these new kinds of objects?  If so, then I think that is a
> relatively big project.  I know that I don't have time at the moment
> to think about how this should be done.

That is indeed a quite big long-term project. From an implementation
point-of-view, I feel this would re-use elements from octave_class and
the current graphics system. I'll keep this in my mind for the time
being. I don't have the time to work on this neither.

Michael.