[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9993] Property inspector GUI

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #3, patch #9993 (project octave):

Qt is at 15.5 in mxe-octave so it should build there for Windows installers.
However, to get there I'd first have to build an Octave dist archive in Linux
(Mageia 7) where Qt is still at 5.12.
So there's a bit of a deadlock ... :-) and I don't know how to fool mxe-octave
to accept a patched dist archive.

Looking at the patch, have you hard-coded all properties for all objects?
I wonder (just dreaming) if there can be an algorithm that explores the source
code, or maybe later on the symbol table or so, for objects and their
properties and then displays them with general/generic display tools. That way
future expansion to e.g., classdef objects could come in sight.
Sooner or later Octave will have to move from handle-based to object based
graphics, such a development cold be very useful then.

For now I think your patch could be useful enough. I'm very curious ...

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