Octave-LibGlade

[Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130 nitt edu>]

Hi Folks! 
Im pleased to announce Octave-LibGlade-0.1 version. 
Its really easy to develop GTK programs with LibGlade, 
and it comes as a shot in the arm, for the Octave package. 
 
This version of Octave-LibGlade supports 13 functions present 
in glade-xml.h , and was found to work in GTK-2.X.X version on 
FC2 & RHEL 9.0. 
 
Im happy to announce the first port of Octave-GTK that supports libGlade now.  
   
 [Significance]:  
 With this you can just write your GTK programs, by just writing simple  
 event handlers. The actual GUI itself is created by the libGlade using  
 GLADE UI description [.glade] files. Now we can use the same idea to make  
 application development faster: RAD.  
   
 [Development Flow]:  
 Use Glade UI Editor to design the GUI.  
 Use libGlade to write event handlers.  
 Use Octave to write application logic.  
 Write a killer application! ;-)  
   
 [Downloads]:  
 You can get the package from:  
 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114848&package_id=124396&release_id=307008  
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave-gtk/  
   
 [Examples]:  
 There is a simple calculator application using Octave-libGlade & 
Octave-Glade,  
 along with the source code.  
   
 [For Impaitent]:  
 Sample code:  
 #! /usr/bin/octave -q  
   
 % * This program is free software.  
 % * This code is a part of Octave-GTK  
 % * Code may be used or distributed under GPL.  
 % * (C) Feb 2005 Muthiah Annamalai, Octave-GTK & Octave-libGlade  
   
   
 xml=""  
 disp('Ohms law example with octave-libglade')  
   
 function calculate_cb()  
      global xml  
      disp('Hello World')  
      i=glade_xml_get_widget(xml,"current")  
      r=glade_xml_get_widget(xml,"resistance")  
      v=glade_xml_get_widget(xml,"voltage")  
   
      amp=str2num(gtk_entry_get_text(i))  
      ohm=str2num(gtk_entry_get_text(r))  
      gtk_entry_set_text(v,num2str(amp*ohm))       
 end  
   
 function main()  
   global xml  
   
   gtk()  
   glade()  
   gtk_init()  
   
   xml=glade_xml_new("ohms.glade","window1","");    
   win1=glade_xml_get_widget(xml,"window1");  
   glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(xml);  
   gtk_widget_show_all(win1);  
   gtk_main()  
 end  
   
 main()  
   
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 As usual Id like to hear from you the idea's and problems that you may face  
 during the installation or, use  of the Octave-GTK/Octave-libGlade packages.  
 Thanks again.  
 Cheers  
 Muthu.  
 
Cheers 
Muthu. 
 
Octave-GTK team. 

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