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Add preferences and prefdir functions * scripts/prefs/private/prefsfile.m (prefsfile): Use prefdir() instread of ~ for folder part of file. * scripts/prefs/preferences.m: New file. * scripts/prefs/prefdir.m: New file. * scripts/prefs/module.mk: Add preferences.m and prefdir.m * libinterp/corefcn/octave-link.h, libinterp/corefcn/octave-link.cc (octave_link::show_preferences): New function. (octave_link)::do_show_preferences: New fuction. (__octave_link_show_preferences__): New function. * libgui/src/octave-qt-link.h, libgui/src/octave-qt-link.cc (octave_qt_link::show_preferences_signal): New signal. (octave_qt_link::do_show_preferences): New function. * libgui/src/main-window.cc (main_window::construct_octave_qt_link): connect octave link to show settings dialog slot.
author John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
date Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:56:44 -0400
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2013 John Donoghue
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} prefdir
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {folder =} prefdir
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22 ## Return the folder that contains the preferences for octave.
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23 ##
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24 ## Examples:
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25 ##
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26 ## Display the preferences folder
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27 ## @example
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28 ## prefdir
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29 ## @end example
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30 ##
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31 ## Change to the preferences folder
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32 ## @example
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33 ## cd(prefdir)
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34 ## @end example
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35 ## @end deftypefn
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36
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37 ## Author: John Donoghue
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38 ## Version: 0.01
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40 function folder = prefdir ()
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42 folder = getenv("HOME");
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44 endfunction