RE: Plot/Graph widget for GTK2

[Alex Pavloff <apavloff esatechnology com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allin Cottrell [mailto:cottrell wfu edu] 
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:48 PM
> To: Alex Pavloff
> Cc: 'gtk-app-devel-list gnome org'
> Subject: Re: Plot/Graph widget for GTK2

> There is a Gtk2 version of gtkextra in CVS.

Excellent.  That does what I want it to.  Since this isn't on a
general-purpose device, I'm confident that I can find any bugs in the tiny
subset of GtkPlot that I will actually be using.  Thanks for the pointer.  

> > Does anyone have any other suggestions for a plotting/graphing
> > widget?  It has to be constantly updated, but I don't need any user
> > interaction with it. I was thinking about hacking something using
> > gnuplot in the background creating a PNG which I then display
> > normally.  Thoughts?  Comments?  Am I crazy?
>
> I have used the sort of hack you're talking about: get gnuplot to
> generate a PNG in the background, and display it in a GtkDrawingArea.
> It works very well.

Well, I looked that that solution a bit more, and gnuplot + readline +
ncurses was going to overfill the space requirements that I had.  I'm sure
it would have worked though.

So, GtkExtra2 it is, with all the bits I don't need snipped out.  Thanks for
the help.

Alex Pavloff - apavloff esatechnology com
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