-----Original Message-----
From: Hazen Babcock [mailto:hbabcock@...]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 7:48 PM
To: Quezada, Marco
Cc: plplot-devel@...
Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] FW: [Plplot-general] PLPlot and FLTK driver?
On 01/20/2012 03:04 PM, Quezada, Marco wrote:
>
> We do have other applications already using fltk and although I am not necessarily a fan of it, I don't see us switching any time soon. So with time it might be possible for myself or my team to write a driver for it. No promises but if we do we'll let you know.
>
Another option might be to use the extcairo driver. It appears (at least
in FLTK 1.3.0) that you can use the cairo graphics library for rendering.
A simple example of how to use the extcairo device is here:
plplot/examples/c/ext-cairo-test.c
It looks like you can get a cairo context in FLTK using:
Fl::cairo_cc()
-Hazen
Just wanted to update this thread to let others looking for this information know that indeed there is a cairo context available through fltk in all versions (1.3, 2.x and 3.x). I am using version 2.0.x-alpha-r9204 and was able to replicate example x17.cpp using the extcairo driver on the fltk cairo context within an fltk window. Below I attach the test source I made for this. It has comments to help guide the flow of execution. It is only my test case and so it is likely not the cleanest or best layout that can be attained but it is what I got to work. If there is any interest from the plplot community I can clean this up some more if required so it can be included as an example in the plplot code base.
-Marco
////// Begin Code //////
// This example was compiled using the following commands:
//
// c++ -g3 -O0 -I/devel/UFM/fltk-2.0.x-alpha-r9204 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -Wno-non-virtual-dtor `PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/depot/plplot-5.9.7/plplot-5.9.7/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config --cflags plplotd plplotd-c++` -c -o cairo.o cairo.cxx
// c++ -g3 -O0 -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/depot/plplot-5.9.7/plplot-5.9.7/lib:/usr/local/depot/qt-4.7.4/qt-4.7.4/lib:/usr/local/plplot-5.9.7/lib -o cairo cairo.o -L/devel/UFM/fltk-2.0.x-alpha-r9204/lib -lfltk2_gl -lGLU -lGL -lfltk2 -lX11 -lXi -lXinerama -lXft -lpthread -lm -lXext -lcairo -lsupc++ `PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/depot/plplot-5.9.7/plplot-5.9.7/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config --libs plplotd plplotd-c++ cairo`
//
// Adjust the path to your plplot and fltk libraries as necessary.
// The example is based on a combination of the fltk cairo.cxx test file and plplot's x17.cpp example code.
#include <config.h>
#include <fltk/run.h>
#include <fltk/x.h>
#include <fltk/DoubleBufferWindow.h>
#include <fltk/draw.h>
#include <fltk/math.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <plplot.h>
#include <plstream.h>
using namespace fltk;
int nsteps = 1000;
class CairoWindow : public Window
{
public:
CairoWindow(int argc, const char *argv[])
: Window(720,540), firstPass(true), ArgC(argc), ArgV(argv)
{
n = 0;
resizable(this); // comment this out for fixed-size
color(fltk::WHITE); // desired background color
}
bool firstPass;
int ArgC;
const char **ArgV;
void Init()
{
// Make sure the cairo context exists before attempting
// to pass the pointer to plplot.
if(fltk::cr != NULL)
{
// Perform the plplot initialization required by your
// task.
pls = new plstream();
pls->parseopts(&ArgC, ArgV, PL_PARSE_FULL);
ymin = -0.1;
ymax = 0.1;
tmin = 0.;
tmax = 10.;
tjump = 0.3;
colbox = 1;
collab = 3;
styline[0] = colline[0] = 2; // pens color and line style
styline[1] = colline[1] = 3;
styline[2] = colline[2] = 4;
styline[3] = colline[3] = 5;
legline[0] = "sum"; // pens legend
legline[1] = "sin";
legline[2] = "sin*noi";
legline[3] = "sin+noi";
xlab = 0.; ylab = 0.25; // legend position
autoy = true; // autoscale y
acc = true;
pls->sdev("extcairo");
pls->init();
pls->cmd(PLESC_DEVINIT, fltk::cr);
pls->adv(0);
pls->vsta();
pls->sError(&pl_errcode, errmsg);
pls->stripc( &id1, "bcnst", "bcnstv",
tmin, tmax, tjump, ymin, ymax,
xlab, ylab,
autoy, acc,
colbox, collab,
colline, styline, legline,
"t", "", "Strip chart demo" );
if ( pl_errcode )
{
std::cout << errmsg << std::endl;
delete pls;
exit( 1 );
}
pls->sError(NULL, NULL);
autoy = false; // autoscale y
acc = true; // accumulate/
y1 = y2 = y3 = y4 = 0.0;
dt = 0.1;
// Only after successfully calling this we can flip the
// flag to false.
firstPass = false;
}
}
static void TimeOutCB(void *data)
{
CairoWindow *w = (CairoWindow *) data;
// We check if we should run the real-time data
// capture and computation, otherwise do not
// reset the timeout and "stop" the real-time.
if(w->n < nsteps)
{
// If this is the first time we called in here
// then initialize the class and the plplot interface.
if(w->firstPass == true)
{
w->Init();
}
else
{
// Otherwise, perform the real-time computation
// and request a re-draw of the screen from the
// fltk main loop.
w->Compute();
fltk::redraw();
}
fltk::repeat_timeout(0.01, w->TimeOutCB, data);
}
}
void Compute()
{
// Compute values for each time-step
t = (double) n * dt;
//noise = (1.0 * (rand() / (RAND_MAX + 1.0))) - 0.5;
noise = pls->randd() - 0.5;
y1 = y1 + noise;
y2 = sin( t * M_PI / 18. );
y3 = y2 * noise;
y4 = y2 + noise / 3.;
++n;
}
void draw()
{
// So we wait to see if this is the first time we called into here
// and if it is, then we set timeout. Now go to TimeOutCB to follow
// the sequence of events.
if(firstPass == false)
{
cairo_save(cr);
if ( n % 2 )
pls->stripa( id1, 0, t, y1 );
if ( n % 3 )
pls->stripa( id1, 1, t, y2 );
if ( n % 4 )
pls->stripa( id1, 2, t, y3 );
if ( n % 5 )
pls->stripa( id1, 3, t, y4 );
cairo_restore(cr);
}
else
{
fltk::add_timeout(0.01, this->TimeOutCB, this);
}
}
static PLINT pl_errcode;
static char errmsg[160];
PLINT n;
private:
plstream *pls;
PLINT id1;
bool autoy, acc;
PLFLT y1, y2, y3, y4, ymin, ymax, xlab, ylab;
PLFLT t, tmin, tmax, tjump, dt, noise;
PLINT colbox, collab, colline[4], styline[4];
const char *legline[4];
};
PLINT CairoWindow::pl_errcode = 0;
char CairoWindow:: errmsg[160] = "";
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
// The plplot library expects argv as const pointers
// but fltk does not, so we create a const copy to pass
// to plplot.
const char *constArgv[argc];
for(int i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
{
constArgv[i] = argv[i];
}
// Create the window
CairoWindow window(argc, constArgv);
window.show(argc,argv);
// In fltk, ONLY after calling the main loop in run() will the
// fltk cairo context be created and the surface initialized.
// Trying to operate on the fltk cairo context before calling run()
// will result in the use of a null pointer. From here go to draw() call
// in CairoWindow() for more comments on these steps.
return fltk::run();
}
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