From graphics-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 16 07:29:54 2004
Subject: Re: Octave GUI API
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rlaboiss at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:32:46 -0600

* Muthu <dearestchum at yahoo dot co dot in> [2004-12-16 00:59]:

> If I must expose users to raw GTK API from Octave, or provide an extra
> layer like the scilab like GUI API ? Should I support handle graphics ?
> Well I dont know, or wish to decide if you can give me opinions.

When asked this question, I always refer to a quite old message from JWE:

    http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-graphics/1999/26

To the best of my knowledge, this is the more concrete proposal up to now,
although largely preliminary.  There has been some discussion since
then.  Look at the mailing list archive.

I think it is high time to design a toolkit-independent GUI layer for
integration in the core code of Octave.

--
Rafael