The Window

The picture below shows the window when starting QtOctave.

There are five tools shown: Variable list, Command List, Navigator, Terminal and Editor. To begin with, you will only need the terminal. The terminal is used when writing commands on one line. If you want to write commands on several lines, you do it using the editor-tool. The commands written in the editor are then saved in so called M-files.

Hide and show tools

You hide a tool by clicking on the small cross at the top of its window.

You show a tool by clicking on the corresponding icon in the tool bar.

You maximize a tool, it will fill up the window, by clicking on the maximize icon or by double clicking at the menu bar of the tool.

You restore the size by right clicking at the menu bar of the tool and choosing Restore.