Re: GUI release

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 01/28/2015 11:09 AM, Richard Crozier wrote:
> On 28/01/15 16:58, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 01/27/2015 09:20 PM, Rik wrote:
> <snip>
> > Maybe as a first step, we should disable the workspace view update when
> > not at the top level. Displaying the workspace info for functions could
> > be made optional, but disabled by default.
> >
> > jwe
>
> Can you make it only update when an octave prompt is being presented to
> the user? I.e. only when debugging or doing interactive work?
>
> In general, there's no reason to see the variables changing when
> running. It serves no purpose. The workspace view should surely be for
> interactive work, not when you've set off a long computation and have
> gone off to have a cup of tea or whatever?

I prefer this too.  And if the user does want the workspace to update as 
computations go by, perhaps they could just use "pause 0".

It might be nice to have the workspace variables grayed if, say, the 
worker process is taking more than 1/2 second to run.  (If the workspace 
variables are temporarily grayed in all computations, it would result in 
some annoying flashing of the variables for "instant" computations.)

Dan