Re: [NumExp-discuss] gnumexp and numexp-kernel

[Gustavo J. A. M. C. <gj...@in...>]

On Seg, 2006-02-13 at 13:19 +0000, Jon Roadley-Battin wrote:
> Is it the plan to migrate the GUI to GTK-2.10 when it comes out? 
> and take full advantage of Cairo vectoring for graphics?
> 
> I might not be able to help with the kernel of numexp (I'm just an
> engineer) but if the GUI is coded in PYTHON (which from what I have
> seen it is, I should be able to help out there. 
> 
> Also looking at the dependancies there is a libnxplot, this seems a
> specific module custom-written for numexp for the soul purpose of
> plotting?

  libnxplot is a more modern replacement for GNU libplot.  It predates
Cairo.  The idea is to drop nxplot and use Cairo, once Cairo has decent
printing support.  At the moment, Cairo isn't ready for printing.

> have you looked into the matplotlib python module, it is extreamly
> flexable and powerful and if you are familiar with matlab they have
> done a very good job of making hte python-code used by matlibplot
> matlab-like 

  gNumExp plotting code also predates matplotlib.  We are pioneers in
some respects (see also our pioneering mathml renderer) ;-)

  I'd look at matplotlib if I didn't have tons of other things to do
first :P

  Regards,

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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