RE: Re: Plotting library for GTK+

["Sergei Naumov" <vomus rambler ru>]

> > I think this question was asked many times but googling gives a rather patchy
> > answer to it. So, I am writing a piece of C code that acquires some data from
> > hardware controllers and it also has to plot a few simple graphs and 
> > histograms
> > out of them. What is a "canonical" tool for such a purpose?
> >
> > I played a bit with GtkExtra but it seems that the project is somewhat 
> > forgotten
> > and it does not have all the documentation in it. I also looked at Cairo but 
> > it
> > is a low level library so I would have to implement all the scaling, axes, 
> > ticks
> > and stuff myself. There are some interactive tools based on GTK but I need a
> > library, as I have to build in plotting functionality.
>
> AFAIK there's no such library, unfortunately. However gnuplot is 
> perhaps the nearest thing to a "canonical" open-source plotting 
> program. It can be run quite effectively in "slave" mode and can 
> produce a wide variety of output formats (notably, using cairo and 
> pango).

Gnuplot would be the best but it is an interactive program. It can also produce all kinds of file formats. Are you suggesting to create such files and display them in GTK application? 

-- Sergei O. Naumov