The basic problem is that there hasn't been a release of BLT in over 4 years, it was never supported on Mac (Aqua mode), and is too old to compile against Cygwin and/or MinGW on Windows.
I tried the latest head of BLT from the SF repository, and even though it works well on Linux, it is difficult to build on Windows, and fails to work. Furthermore, it still doesn't work on MacOSX.
So some months ago, I bit the bullet, and rewrote the BLT functionality I needed on top of Cairo, and have been gradually improving it ever since. It also gives us some further feature options in the form of display of mathematical formalae, and SVG (scalable) icons, which will come as we get to it.
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is there some reason why the plots cannot be done using BLT?
The basic problem is that there hasn't been a release of BLT in over 4 years, it was never supported on Mac (Aqua mode), and is too old to compile against Cygwin and/or MinGW on Windows.
I tried the latest head of BLT from the SF repository, and even though it works well on Linux, it is difficult to build on Windows, and fails to work. Furthermore, it still doesn't work on MacOSX.
So some months ago, I bit the bullet, and rewrote the BLT functionality I needed on top of Cairo, and have been gradually improving it ever since. It also gives us some further feature options in the form of display of mathematical formalae, and SVG (scalable) icons, which will come as we get to it.