Re: HELP: cpu load graph plotting program

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

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for discussions of the development of gtk+ itself.

On Jun 26, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Kevin C. wrote:

> Problem is, how can I get C/C++ to call or incorporate RRDTool  
> command-line program into my GUI? Is there any way in C/C++ to call  
> another program? I don't think there is.

Sure there is -- system(), in the standard C library, is a good place  
to start.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/ 
library_23.html#SEC402

However, this solution seems rather heavyweight for a monitor that  
will run every second or so.


> Or does anyone know a 3rd party graph plotting library that plots  
> to GUIs like GTK/QT/SDL? Or maybe GTK-graph GTK-plot libraries?

One that comes to mind is GtkDatabox.
http://www.eudoxos.net/gtk/gtkdatabox/

You can also have a look at libgtop, the library implementing the  
functionality of GTop:
http://directory.fsf.org/libs/LibGTop.html


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