Re: [Plplot-general] Am I going about this the best way?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2015-03-25 21:51-0000 he...@co... wrote:

> I use PLplot in a Windows application for plotting frequency response Bode plots from oscilloscope data. It's worked out nicely. One
> enhancement I'm tackling is getting better font support as well as anti -aliasing. Currently, I'm using the mem driver. I take the
> buffer and transform it for GDI display. I am aware of the wingcc driver, but I'd prefer to paint to my window vs creating a new one.
> After some research, I decided that memcairo would be the best approach. After struggling a bit to get PLplot built with cairo/pango, I
> did get it to work. In the process I came to realize that I'd need to package about a dozen DLLs with my app. While I realize I'm
> probably swimming upstream I then set out to make static builds of cairo, pango and its dependencies. Even if this works, it will
> probably bloat my app considerably. So my question is ... is there another driver I should explore that may be better suited for the
> task at hand. Or should I just suck it up and package the DLLs? Also, I do plan to make this multiplatform some day.

Our cairo- and qt-related software gives the best font rendering
currently, and I just discovered that our newly rewritten
wxwidgets-related software also gives great font rendering (e.g.,
example 24 looks fine) if linked with the latest wxwidgets software.

So you may just want to stand pat with your current pango/cairo based
approach.  On the other hand, if the Qt4 dependency is bit easier to
handle for you compared to the pango/cairo dependency, then you should
at least take a look at our Qt-related software such as the qt device
driver and examples/c++/qt_example.  And possibly you might also want
to do the same for our new wxwidgets software (see, e.g.,
examples/c++/wxPLplotDemo), although I should warn you that our new
wxwidgets-related software is still being very actively developed with
a number of issues in the process of being fixed.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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