[Scilab-Dev] UI elements GSOC query

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Le vendredi 19 mars 2010 à 22:38 +0530, chirag at iitg.ernet.in a écrit :
> Hi
> I want to develop the UI elements for scilab as shown on wikipage.
> I intend to use GIWS to call java swing objects from c++ code.
> And to get the feedback back i am thinking of making a seperate thread in
> c++ which will wait for signal changes in Java variables and act
> appropriately this way java gui will be able to provide feedback to c++
> code or to scilab.
Note that it is not a development from scratch. Such operations are already done in Scilab and this project
will be to extend the current feature.
I just wrote this page to try to explain that:
http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor_-_Scilab_UI_Element


> But I saw JIMS on wikipage and I think that can also be used but I am not
> sure  because there is no documentation for JIMS . So can you please tell
> me more about JIMS and can it be used for UI elements.
JIMS is an ongoing project. It is normal that there is no
documentation. ;)
However, you are mixing two projects (I understand it is not trivial at
first):
* Scilab UI element is to extend uicontrol feature. 
* a part of this page
http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor_-_advanced_interaction proposes to
present some methods of the internal Scilab Java object to the language.
This would allow important customization to advanced users.
Maybe we should do some more work here...

Sylvestre