[Scilab-users] Toolboxes startup

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Is %toolboxes already used ? If so where is it documented ?

S.

Le 26/04/2021 à 10:57, Clément David a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the proposal Stephane, this is a good idea!
>
> As a reminder, currently each toolbox is free to display anything at 
> startup and the toolbox skeleton provides a default “Start ” + 
> TOOLBOX_NAME then display information that ease development (gateways, 
> help and so on). Migrating to another display is only a matter of 
> convention, for example by checking if the global %toolboxes variable 
> is available than do not display anything.
>
> Clément
>
> *From:* users <users-bounces at lists.scilab.org> *On Behalf Of *Stéphane 
> Mottelet
> *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2021 9:42 AM
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> *Subject:* [Scilab-users] Toolboxes startup
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just made available for macOS and Linux the toolboxes stixbox 
> depends upon for macOS (distfun and linalg) and my remark is that when 
> a lot of modules are loaded at startup then the output can become very 
> long and sometimes messy, since we don't impose a normalized output:
>
> *Scilab branch-6.1 (Apr 19 2021, 23:19:29)*
>
> *Start Distfun
>
> Start Helptbx
>
> Start Specfun
>
> Start Makematrix
>
> Start Apifun
>     Load macros
>     Type "help apifun_overview" for a quick start.
>
> Start Linalg
>
> Start Stixbox*
>
> I would rather expect something like:
>
> *Scilab branch-6.1 (Apr 19 2021, 23:19:29)*
>
> *Start modules: Distfun, Helptbx, Specfun, Makematrix, Apifun, Linalg, 
> Stixbox.*
>
> *--> *
>
> The verbosity level of the output (with the above default) could be 
> defined in user preferences, and checked in module startup script in 
> order to output the required amount of information.
>
> That's just a propostion to be discussed, of course.
>
> S.
>
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Stéphane Mottelet
Ingénieur de recherche
EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
Sorbonne Universités - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
CS 60319, 60203 Compiègne cedex
Tel : +33(0)344234688
http://www.utc.fr/~mottelet

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