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Re: Promising new Qt GUI


From: John Swensen
Subject: Re: Promising new Qt GUI
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:03:36 -0400

On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> And yes, it's hooking onto the readline idle loop too:
> 
>     https://github.com/jacobdawid/Quint
> 
> And some promising screenshots:
> 
>     http://www.pic-upload.de/view-9501420/screenshot_quint.png.html
> 
> This looks just like what the doctor ordered. A brief chat in #octave
> with Jacob Dawid, the author, has revealed that he's using a
> PendingRequest class that allows very flexible communication with the
> Octave process (say, from a plotting window or a workspace window).
> He's amenable to the idea of the code being worked into the Octave
> sources, of releasing it under the GPL, following GNU coding
> guidelines and all that.
> 
> I'm excited about this one. I think we finally have a winner. There
> are a few problems, which is why Jacob was asking in IRC, but the
> overall direction looks correct. I'll let Jacob (cc'ed here) explain
> himself more.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

Even though I haven't posted much lately, I have been making progress on a QT 
solution with a full terminal emulator.  I took the Konsole sources and using 
qtermwidget as an example ripped out everything that made it KDE dependent.  
You can find a screenshot of the current state at
http://imgur.com/tUxrE

Just yesterday I incorporated the octave_server class that used for the old 
GTK+ octavede for interacting with Octave itself and now it is a matter of 
implementing the Model-View-Controller for each of the subpanels (history, 
variables, file browser, editor) using the octave_server class as the model 
portion.

I suppose I should get a branch up on Sourceforge for the QT version of 
OctaveDE so others can take a look.

John Swensen

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