Re: GUI variable editor patch pushed and some help needed

[Torsten]

On 23.08.2017 20:01, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Torsten wrote:
>> On 23.08.2017 09:37, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
>>> John W. Eaton wrote
>>>> I pushed a patch for a GUI variable editor:
>>>>
>>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8656
>>>>
>>>> This change is the work of a number of people including Rüdiger
>>>> Sonderfeld, Philip Nienhuis, and Michael Barnes.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to work, but I think there is a lot more to be done before it
>>>> is really finished.  But, as I said on the patch tracker, I went ahead
>>>> and pushed this addition now instead of waiting until the patch is
>>>> "perfect" because in my experience, waiting for that will mean that the
>>>> patch will never be pushed.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, when starting Octave with no qt-settings file, I see the
>>>> variable editor window placed to the right of the command window, not
>>>> inside of the tabbed widget that contains the terminal, code editor,
>>>> and
>>>> doc browser widgets.
>>>
>>> You're right, but on my boxes (mainly Windows) the variable Editor
>>> pane used
>>> to be stretched along the bottom of the Octave window below all other
>>> panes,
>>> rather than to the right of them.
>>>
>>> I'll post a few more known Variable Editor issues to the bug tracker the
>>> next days (no fear, there aren't that many AFAIK).
>>
>> Great tool!
>>
>> Concerning the placing of the widget: I think that the initial window
>> layout is also stored in the default qt-settings file, which is created
>> in case no qt-settings are found. Maybe we can drop this, I will have a
>> look at it.
> 
> Another thing that had better be fixed right away is the default
> "Autofit by ..." = on setting in the Variable Editor settings tab in
> (Preferences pane). With that option set, populating the VarEd pane with
> somewhat larger matrices is going to take an awfully long time.
> 
> I've been using the variable Editor quite a lot for more than 2 years
> and had adapted various setting in my qt-settings files so I forgot the
> rough edges. Now that John mentioned it I remember those again :-/

Changeset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ab5780d54869
should solve the issue with placing the widget.

Torsten