Re: Handle graphics project will start in January 2004.

Hi Ole and everyone else.

Although we have not spoken for some time now, I have still been working on my 
application, including the ideas I discussed with you a while back regarding 
an Octave graphics system.

I actually now have a website. There is also some information there about the 
plugin concept for an Octave graphical system (more needs to be added 
though). The website address is kvisualiser.free.fr

The more I have pondered over the original idea, the more I have come to 
realise that the basic implementation of low level object types in Octave 
would be relatively easy. I am beginning to conclude that the bulk of the 
work would be in the user end high level plotting scripts and perhaps any 
exotic communication methods that people may wish to implement (I am happy 
with sockets, but others may desire other things).

My reasoning to this is that my ideas have not involved the low level 
graphical object types (figure, axes, surface, etc.) in Octave actually doing 
anything apart from feeding user commands to the language plugin. The 
language plugin would create the outgoing communication stream to the 
visualisation application. Thus the bulk of the work is done by the external 
application, and the graphical objects in Octave are merely interface stubs 
that have no functionality (and in fact no data other than an ID) in 
themselves.

I would propose that interested parties begin an ongoing discussion on the 
octave-graphics mailing list. If that means just you (Ole) and me, then so be 
it. What would be wasteful were if we all continue to work without any common 
understanding and then end up with different incompatible systems.

Nic

PS How is OPlot++ coming along?

Le Dimanche 9 Novembre 2003 02:55, Ole Jacob Hagen a écrit :
> Any comments?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ole J.