Re: [guppi-list] strip charts

[Alan Jackson <ajackson shell com>]

On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 23:11:01 -0700
Steven Jenkins <steven jenkins ieee org> wrote:
> I am very familiar with Unix but not with X Windows or any UI 
> technology. From my reading and testing it appears that I can easily do 
> everything I need to do with the Gnome Canvas except possibly panning 
> the display. (In case it's not clear, I make these pseudo-strip-charts 
> by sliding the rightmost rectangle of the chart to the left, and then 
> plotting the most recent data at the right edge of the chart.)
> I suspect this is also possible with Canvas, but I don't see now to do 
> it. It also seems that I could do it with GDK. That might even make more 
> sense, as there is no user interaction with the graphical display. I 
> can't find any good documentation on GDK, however.

Check out xmgrace. It has that capability built in. There is a nice example
of an automated graph in the examples directory.

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

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