Re: Qt Wrapper, wx and real-time plots

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 13 December 2004 04:19 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be easier just to fire up multiple
> > separate copies of gnuplot?
> 
> For gnuplot as a process (the only thing currently existing): yes.  But 
> for gnuplot as a (shared) library, that's not an option.  AFAIK, a 
> single parent process can't open a single shared library more than once, 

But a library of interface routines can generate multiple threads,
each with its own instance of gnuplot.  That is the direction in which
the Python interface is headed (http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/)
and I think also the Java and Perl class libraries.  


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