Re: Successfully merged projects

[Richard Crozier]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> On 11-Apr-2011, Richard Crozier wrote:
> 
> | Just to throw in a few cents worth, I have been working on QtOctave of
> late,
> | and the svn sources now contain an editor with the following features:
> | 
> | 1. step-through debugging capabilities (i.e. opens m files as the
> dubugger
> | steps into them). Debug stepping is achievable using the F-keys as in
> the
> | matlab editor.
> | 
> | 2. the ability to add break points by clicking on the side bar,
> resizeable
> | text
> | 
> | 3. the ability to highlight text and send it to octave as a command by
> | pressing F9.
> | 
> | 4. proper syntax highlighting which matches the matlab editor, or is
> | modifiable
> | 
> | 6. Decent auto-indentation for code which matches opening code structure
> | indentation, i.e. properly matches 'end' with opening 'if' indentation
> etc.
> | 
> | 5. the ability to resize the text via keyboard shortcuts or a button.
> | 
> | Plus a number of other improvements, such as inserting spaces rather
> than
> | tabs etc. and the addition of the open-source cross-platform Inconsolata
> | font.
> | 
> | 
> | The command window also adds the ability to highlight text, press F9,
> and
> | have it sent as a command to octave. 
> | 
> | All of the communication with octave is handled by a single class
> | octave_connection.cpp, perhaps there is some scope to merge these
> projects
> | by replacing the octave_connection class with the superior method used
> in
> | the projects under discussion? Or alternatively using the QtOctave
> editor
> | classes in these projects? 
> | 
> | Several of the features I've described above are what I consider the key
> | features of the matlab GUI for algorithm development.
> 
> I have to say that I find the whole idea of each application providing
> its own editor to be rather silly.  Why do people keep reinventing these
> things?
> 
> jwe
> 


Well, without these features, I wouldn't bother with a GUI at all, what do
you need a GUI for that you can't just use the existing terminal to do? I'm
not interested in displaying variables and things, there are perfectly good
commands, 'who' and 'whos' to achieve this. 

The advantage of the matlab gui is that you can step through your file,
realise there is an error, change something earlier in the script, or
manually change a variable value, highlight a block of code in the file and
reevaluate, the continue without having to start from scratch, or save all
the variables to a file, or some other method.

I think you would struggle to implement this in an external editor, but
perhaps that's due to my lack of knowledge of what's out there. Is there one
with which I could do this?

Richard

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