Octave-GTK: A GTK binding for GNU Octave

TL;DR

This paper introduces Octave-GTK, a binding that integrates GTK GUI toolkit with GNU Octave, enabling graphical interface development within Octave for enhanced usability and visualization.

Contribution

It presents a novel binding implementation that automates code generation and extends GTK functionalities to GNU Octave, filling a gap in Octave's GUI capabilities.

Findings

Successful implementation of GTK bindings in Octave

Extended binding framework to other libraries

Facilitated GUI development in GNU Octave

Abstract

This paper discusses the problems faced with interoperability between two programming languages, with respect to GNU Octave, and GTK API written in C, to provide the GTK API on Octave.Octave-GTK is the fusion of two different API's: one exported by GNU Octave [scientific computing tool] and the other GTK [GUI toolkit]; this enables one to use GTK primitives within GNU Octave, to build graphical front ends,at the same time using octave engine for number crunching power. This paper illustrates our implementation of binding logic, and shows results extended to various other libraries using the same base code generator. Also shown, are methods of code generation, binding automation, and the niche we plan to fill in the absence of GUI in Octave. Canonical discussion of advantages, feasibility and problems faced in the process are elucidated.