Re: Having problem building on macOS Mojave

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/10/19 11:45 PM, ThomasScofield wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  I really appreciate it.  As far as I'm concerned, I can
> live with the state of things (i.e., where a resized plot looks as it
> should), at least for now.  Plotting does not comprise a large portion of
> the uses I make of the software.  I am also pretty engrained in using the
> non-gui version, which this defaults to.  I presume the Octave.app (don't
> know how I missed finding that) defaults to a gui version at startup?  I bet
> my students will prefer that.
>
> I'll monitor this feed to see if you get round to investigating this
> further, and post new things you learn.
>
> Thanks again.
> Thomas

You're welcome!

Yep, Octave.app defaults to the GUI (double-click the icon and you get 
the Qt GUI), but you can also launch the command line version by running 
it from the command line like so:

/Applications/Octave-4.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/usr/bin/octave

That octave binary is the regular old octave program, and it supports 
the normal options.

Sebastian is also a teacher; students were his main use case for making 
Octave.app. (He's the original creator; I just came along later and 
spruced it up some.)

Yeah, I'd bet your students would prefer the GUI. It shortens the 
learning curve for new users: actions are discoverable, and the editor 
has syntax highlighting and stuff to assist you in writing code.

Cheers,
Andrew