Re: charts on gtk+

[Florian Pelz <pelzflorian googlemail com>]

Hi,

On 02/07/2015 08:09 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> You mean something like MathGL but for the GTK+/cairo stack ?
>
> I can't think of anything off hand which exists that does that, and
> I would see myself using it at one point or another.
>
> I would suggest that you do this with cairo directly, and not have
> a hard GTK+ dependency in your library, i.e. you could provide a
> GtkWidget as a separate thing, but have the main library only
> depend on cairo, this would allow one to plug it into a GTK+
> application easily, but also use it directly with cairo on a wide
> variety of cairo rendering backends (can be interesting for
> directly rendering charts onto a PDF surface for example).

Since zeta's goal right now is writing an application, I would suggest
to either embed a picture produced with MathGL or use cairo directly.
A general chart/graph drawing widget would be great, but I'm not sure
if zeta wants to do that now.

Greetings,
Florian