Re: [Plplot-general] using plplot as a library in xwindows apps

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi Fons,

I don't have any direct link for you, but I somehow remember that 
someone gave an example regarding your problem on the mailing list. You 
could search in the mailing list, maybe here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/plp...@li.../
http://www.mail-archive.com/plp...@li.../

HTH,
Werner

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I'm a complete newbie as regards Plplot and installed
> it just a few hours ago (on a Linux system). Everything
> compiled OK, the examples are working.
> 
> Now I'm trying to find out how to use Plplot purely
> as a plotting library in existing X11 apps.
> 
> What I need is a function that will draw a 3D plot to
> window or a pixmap using either the basic X11 backend
> or Cairo, and nothing more. Setting up any resources
> and calling the function at the right time is the
> application's responsability. The drawing routing is
> not expected to create the window, wait for X events
> etc., and in fact must not do any of this.
> 
> The examples are not of any help here as everything
> is hidden, I guess in plinit(). The manual doesn't
> touch on the subject except for the GTK canvas but
> I'm not using GTK. 
> 
> Is there any documentation or example code to explain
> or show what is required ?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 


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