[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60980] "Position" key in uigetfile appears to have no effect

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #60980 (project octave):

Attached is a WIP patch that adds a new function `have_dialogs` to the event
manager classes. That function returns `false` for the base class and `true`
for the Qt implementation.

The patch only partly implements handling that function (only the `uigetfile`
function for now). The other GUI dialogs that could be either implemented via
the event manager or otherwise would probably need similar changes.
The patch also includes some work for the originally motivating removal of the
"position" property for `uigetfile`. (A final patch should probably separate
those two changes.)

With that patch, a file dialog appears when Octave is started with
`--no-gui-libs` for `uigetfile('*.*', '', '')`.

I'm only uploading it here to ask if this is an approach worth putting more
time into. Or do we need something different?

(file #51802)
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