Re: [long] Handle Graphics and visualisation applications in Octave.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:18:23 -0500
Paul Kienzle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Windows and OS X ports are an issue.  QT is not free under windows
> and GTK is not well supported.  I don't know their status under OS X
> except of course that OS X can run X apps.

Hi, everyone. 

Well, if Octave still require Cygwin libraries to run on Win32, then we are pretty ok, with respect to Qt. 
There is possible to run Qt on Win32 using Cygwin, http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ and http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/
This project has ported the X11-version of Qt to the Cygwin. 
The reason why this is possible and IMHO legal, is that KDE can be used in a Cygwin environment. 
A collection of screenshot of Qt3 running in a Cygwin-environment can be found here: 
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/screenshots/qt3-win32.php

I will ask the developers of qt3-win32 about their status, and ask how far they have come with their native implementation of qt3 for win32, which is GPL'd. 

Until then, see you on octave-graphics. 


Cheers, 

Ole J.