Re: Connecting Octave to the GUI

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/04/2013 12:43 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Yup, that's going in the right direction. That signal can go across
> threads with no worries. You've even bypassed the main window, which is
> good.

OK, then I will check in that change and see if I can make a few more
and clean up some of the functions that will be unused as a result.

> In the code is currently stuff like this:
> void
> main_window::handle_insert_debugger_pointer_request (const QString&
> file, int line)
> {
> #ifdef HAVE_QSCINTILLA
> _file_editor->handle_insert_debugger_pointer_request (file, line);
> #endif
> }
>
> which isn't egregious, but is kind of redundant. Just connect a signal
> from the octave_link to the file editor (similar to what you've done in
> your example). Now, if there is something special that the main window
> needs to do, it can have it's own slot as well.

OK, I can also try to make some changes like that.

Thanks.

jwe