Re: Object Graphics v0.5

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, John Swensen wrote:

> I have been messing around with the Boost C++ libraries lately 
> (http://boost.org/) and think their serialization libraries would be 
> *perfect* for taking the whole tree (or a sub-tree) and serializing it 
> to a file.  This would be particularly great for saving an entire figure 
> in its raw format.  Kindof like a .fig format for octave.  It allows 
> text, binary, and XML file formats.  It also allows versioning of the 
> serialized files, so as the ObjectGraphics are improved/changed, old 
> serailized plots and graphs can still be loaded and displayed.

One of the ideas of how we wanted to store the file was that it would 
write to an m file that could be executed as a regular script.  This 
method allows easy modification of the graphics outside octave and 
(hopefully) no modifications to octave itself.

Bill

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