Re: UIControl draft implementation

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM, John Swensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Oct 31, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> I looked over this patch, but before I patch and build, I have a few 
> questions:
> 1) How does this mesh with the recent discussion and work done to make uimenu 
> work with the FLTK backend?  Is there some duplicate work, or conflicting 
> portions of the two implementations? It seems that the patch you are 
> proposing is quite generic and intended to work with any backend?

This patch is backend-agnostic. It implements the low-level stuff required
at octave level. In that sense, it's independent of the uimenu stuff (though
I didn't check, maybe some code could be shared).

> 2) How does one go about testing this patch without a backend that implements 
> these ui* objects? Do you have a "fake" backend that lets you simulate events 
> for calling back into octave from the backend?

No, but in your case, I'll be able to provide you with my GTK+ test
implementation.

Michael.