From: Petr M. <mi...@ph...> - 2004-10-29 07:06:51
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> > If this is so, then maybe you could explain in a little more detail how > > you would like to accomplish this. How does the communication between > > the widget class and gnuplot work (maybe pipes)? How do you display > > gnuplot's output in the calling application? I vaguely remember a > > discussion on the gnuplot-beta list about the feasibility of a Qt > > terminal type. Do you want to use gnuplot in it's interactive mode > > (zooming, data point labeling, etc.)? I'm sure the people on the > > gnuplot-beta list would be interested to know, and can probably give a > > lot of helpful tips. > Currently the X11 child window is quite impossible to work with, so I am > just dumping a png to a temp file and then drawing it on the widget. I > will probably have to implement the zooming, data point labeling and such > manually. Would not it be easier to implement a new Qt/GTK/FLTK/wx -terminal, that would allow to be encapsulated in a particular widget? What would help many other projects as well. That could actually be made more easier than the current X11; and connected to gnuplot either with a binary bidirectional piping (like OS/2) or compiled together with gnuplot inside one executable without piping (like MSW). Then it will be faster for plotting than X11. --- PM |