QtHandles ========= QtHandles is a Qt-based toolkit for Octave. License ------- QtHandles is licensed under GPL v3 or higher. The icons used in QtHandles are from the Crystal icon set and are licensed under LGPL. See http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/ for more information. Requirements ------------ - octave >= 3.7 (current development branch). - Qt >= 4.7 Compilation ----------- Use the following commands: qmake make These commands assume that octave is available somewhere in your PATH. If this is not the case, the recommended way to compile QtHandles is the following: PATH=/where/octave/is/installed/bin:$PATH qmake -recursive make Running from sources -------------------- QtHandles can be run from sources, using the simple wrapper provided: ./tool/octave-qt This wrapper runs octave in CLI mode, but provides the necessary framework to run a Qt application. This wrapper is not required if you're running octave using the GUI (only available in octave >= 3.7). Installing ---------- Use the following command: ./install.sh This command assumes that octave is available in your PATH. If this is not the case, use the following command: PATH=/where/octave/is/installed/bin:$PATH ./install.sh Activating QtHandles -------------------- QtHandles is activated in octave like any other toolkit. Type the following at octave prompt: graphics_toolkit qt