Re: xmgrace

[Andrzej Grzegorczyk <andrzej sci kun nl>]

> Can you elaborate on this.  What does "fast in use" mean.
> I consider gnuplot very fast.  Also, gnuplot handles 3-D
> plots; Grace does not, if I recall. (?)

Yes that's true you can't do 3D plots. But if you look for scientific 
journal the most of plots are 2D. But I agree this is disadvantage. But 
on the other hand if you want to make a zoom of the graph you need just 
to click on the icon. If you need shift the graft you need just to press 
the icon. Generally it is more easy to work with xmgrace then gnuplot 
and in my opinion tools for data analisys are mutch better in xmgrace 
and much more user friendly.

But don't get me wrong I don't want to prove what is better, xmgrace or 
gnuplot. I just try to show that integration of such programs with 
gnumeric can be very useful and more people will use gnumeric as a 
calculation tool.

> Similarly, gnuplot can be controlled by external programs.
> It is however a plotting program, on the philosophy that
> the data manipulation should (mostly) be done elsewhere.
> (Like in gnumeric!)
Yes and I would like to have a plugin which allow me directly send the 
date to gnuplot or xmgrace not by exporting data to the file then 
importing to the gnuplot or xmgrace. I can do it  already but from 
practical point of view this is not fast method. In xmgrace I have own 
templates, fuctions and I have my own standard for data keeping.

But don't get me wrong I don't want to prove what is better xmgrace or 
gnuplot I just try to prove that integration of sutch programs with 
gnumeric can be very useful

Sending just data gets you only the default plot.
Don't you need to be able to send script commands too?

Just very basic commands.



Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004, Andrzej Grzegorczyk apparently wrote:
>
> > Gnuplot is very good but it is not so fast in use, xmgrace it
> > much better from this point of view.
>
>
> Can you elaborate on this.  What does "fast in use" mean.
> I consider gnuplot very fast.  Also, gnuplot handles 3-D
> plots; Grace does not, if I recall. (?)
>
>
> > Can be controlled from external programs and has it is the
> > best, non commercial tools for data analysis.
>
>
> Similarly, gnuplot can be controlled by external programs.
> It is however a plotting program, on the philosophy that
> the data manipulation should (mostly) be done elsewhere.
> (Like in gnumeric!)
>
>
> > Preparing of short plugin program which will just send
> > data (with some data information like filename) to xmgrace
> > this is a problem of 3 weeks of programming. (I'm trying
> > to do it but I know only c++ and there is not a lot of
> > documentation about writing gnumeric plugins in c).
>
>
> Sending just data gets you only the default plot.
> Don't you need to be able to send script commands too?
> Anyway, please announce if you succeed.
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Isaac
>
>
>
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