I see great talk about a GUI IDE
To me one of the strengths of Octave is that it is free
Would people make tons of applets with it if we gave them a way?
Very likely, my guess
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On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:39 PM, "J. Luis" <jmfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23-03-2012 22:55, Clark Dunson wrote:
>>
>> Mathworks has offered GUI building functionality as part of the product for
>> a while. If we be Qt, then how to create GUI building in the m-file? Focus
>> by the core group on devising the GUI/API layer that allows us all to create
>> GUI might be time very well spent.
>>
>> Of course this is probably already talked about, perhaps even already
>> written and available.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to be keep out of this discussion as most participants sea to
> have their minds set but this touched a subject dear to me ... and so I go
>
> I'm a ML as well as CLI relatively experienced user and I find it unthinkable
> to use only the CLI when I can use the IDE. Did you guys never used
> breakpoints in the ML editor? How can you live without it once you did it
> once? CLI???????????
>
> A second point is that I also find it unthinkable to try force students to
> use a command window and hide from them that Matlab exists. CLI only
> defenders, just try to do that and please report your experiences with us.
>
> Finally, the GUI topic. YES, with the fantastic work of Michael Goffioul with
> QtHandles it already possible as is shown with Mirone figure bellow
>
> <bjhijgib.png>
>
> but, no roses on the way. Octave has lots of bottlenecks and an issue even
> more important than IDE is Octave performance
>
> (I'm not going to make friends here). While Octave shows up in benchmarks
> positions like in http://julialang.org/ I don't foresee a bright future
> ahead. And please do not invocate users guilty on not writing fully
> vectorized code.
>
> Joaquim Luis
>
>
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