Re: Connecting Octave to the GUI

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 04/08/2013 04:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 05:30 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:25 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/08/2013 04:15 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >
> > emit octave_command_complete (QObject *requester, QString& command,
> > octave_value_list& result);
> >
> >
> > Aren't there problems with reference counting if you pass things
> > like an octave_value_list object from the Octave interpreter thread
> > to the GUI thread?
> >
> >
> > The atomic refcount I implemented a while back is supposed to be
> > thread-safe. I've been using it to pass octave objects between octave
> > and QtHandles and it seemed stable.
>
> Yeah, but slow, as I recall. :-(

Can't one pass by reference after using:

  qRegisterMetaType<octave_value_list> ("octave_value_list");

?

Dan