[Gtk-sharp-list] Good GTK# charting library, fully integrate with Monodevelop

Wed Apr 17 14:47:10 UTC 2013

I'm glad it's helpful.  Certainly feel free to fork and improve. When you
have something you feel is ready to be integrated with the main project
(and the bar shouldn't be terribly high for this, since it's still very
much an alpha stage project), just send me a pull request.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Doug Blank <doug.blank at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Scott Stephens <stephens.js at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > In case the OP or any readers are still interested, I've now got a first
> > pass at the Gtk# backend for Florence implemented. It's only tested on
> > Windows at this point, and it's got one relatively major bug that I can't
> > figure out, but of the examples I work with (adapted from the original
> NPlot
> > demo) whatever's going on only seems to affect the case where there are
> two
> > linked plots, which seems like a somewhat low-priority case.  I think
> it's
> > usable as is.
> >
> > Thanks for chiming in Hywel, I adapted your work on NPlot to get my Gtk#
> > backend up.  It helped a lot, as I only have minimal Gtk# experience.
> >
>
> Very nice! I just tried it on Linux, with Mono, using IronPython with
> the following:
>
> import clr
> clr.AddReference("Florence")
> clr.AddReference("Florence.Gtk")
> import Florence
> import System
> plot = Florence.GtkSharp.ImperativeHost()
> plot.Start()
> x = System.Array[System.Double]([1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ])
> y = System.Array[System.Double]([ 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ])
> z = System.Array[System.Double]([0.0, 2.0, 4.0 ])
> plot.points(x, y)
> plot.lines(x, z, title="Test Plot 2", x_label="X2", y_label="Y2")
>
> Clicking on the graph (in the middle, and on legends) is fantastic,
> and using it interactively from IronPython really turns this into a
> powerful tool. (If you run this from Calico [1] (which will include
> Florence shortly), the first three commands aren't necessary if you
> put the DLLs in Calico/modules).
>
> I'd be glad to fork on github, and suggest at least a couple of
> additional comments. Thanks again!
>
> -Doug
>
> [1] - http://calicoproject.org/ - use Florence from a variety of
> interactive languages, including Ruby, Python, Scheme, and more.
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Hywel Thomas <hywel.w.thomas at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> NPlot also came top of my list, but the project seems to have died since
> >> it transferred over to svn and SourceForge.  I've also forked it for my
> own
> >> use, and extended the Gtk# implementation to handle Interactions
> >> (https://github.com/hwthomas/NPlot) to the same level as the Swf demo.
> >> However, I haven't (yet) added any more documentation than in the
> original
> >> NPlot, and there is currently no integration into the Gtk# designer
> either,
> >> both of which were requirements of the original query.  My own
> preference
> >> for a cross-platform toolkit is now Xwt, which already has an adequate
> >> Drawing API, and I'm currently porting NPlot to Xwt  when time allows
> (also
> >> on github).
> >>
> >> On 28/03/13 19:29, Scott Stephens wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm glad there's at least one other person in the universe who thinks
> the
> >> idea is a good one :-)  If/when I get around to finishing the work I'll
> let
> >> you know.  It's not on the active to-do list right now, partially
> because
> >> there are some mono bugs that make my end goal impossible, even if I
> was to
> >> finish the Florence part of it.  So I wouldn't count on this any time
> soon,
> >> but I am still interested in the project and hope to finish it at some
> >> point.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Doug Blank <doug.blank at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Scott Stephens <
> stephens.js at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > I don't think there's a library that meets your criteria, at least
> not
> >>> > a
> >>> > free one.  I've conducted similar searches in the past and come up
> >>> > empty.
> >>> > To try to meet some of my needs I forked NPlot and started a new
> >>> > project
> >>> > which I call Florence (I told the NPlot creators what I was
> interested
> >>> > in
> >>> > doing, and they asked me to rebrand rather than do it under the NPlot
> >>> > name).
> >>> > You can find it here: https://github.com/scottstephens/Florence
> >>> >
> >>> > I've found the NPlot charting functionality to be sufficient, the two
> >>> > capabilities that I wanted were to be able to write charting code
> that
> >>> > could
> >>> > work within either WinForms or Gtk# widgets, and to add an imperative
> >>> > API
> >>> > (so that it would be convenient to call plotting code from the C#
> >>> > REPL).
> >>> > Unfortunately, it's not even close to finished.  It works as well as
> >>> > NPlot,
> >>> > just with the addition of an imperative API, and with a lot of the
> code
> >>> > more
> >>> > cleanly separated between tookit-specific and toolkit-agnostic pieces
> >>> > than
> >>> > the NPlot code was.  But it still only works with WinForms, as I
> >>> > haven't
> >>> > implemented any of the Gtk# backends yet.  Anyway, not even close to
> >>> > being a
> >>> > polished solution to your problem, but if you're willing to put some
> >>> > coding
> >>> > effort into solving your problem, this might get you closer than
> >>> > starting
> >>> > from scratch.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the information on Florence! That is exactly what we are
> >>> looking for, but with the Gtk backend. (We would use the imperative
> >>> API from a variety of scripting languages, including IronPython,
> >>> Scheme, Logo, Basic, Ruby, and more). We are stretched too thin at the
> >>> moment to be able to help very much, but we'll keep that on our list
> >>> to watch.
> >>>
> >>> -Doug
> >>>
> >>> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:00 AM,
> >>> > <gtk-sharp-list-request at lists.ximian.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
> >>> >> From: FromMidAges <siuksliu.statine at gmail.com>
> >>> >> To: gtk-sharp-list at lists.ximian.com
> >>> >> Subject: [Gtk-sharp-list] Good GTK# charting library,   fully
> >>> >> integrate
> >>> >>         with Monodevelop
> >>> >> Message-ID: <1364470139870-4659168.post at n4.nabble.com>
> >>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Hello to all!
> >>> >> I've searched over all Internet for good GTK# based charting
> library,
> >>> >> which
> >>> >> could be fully integrated to Monodevelop and his GUI designer.
> >>> >> I've found ZedGraph, but it was poorly documented, and without
> >>> >> integration
> >>> >> to GUI designer. That is true for NPlot and NPlot.Gtk too.
> >>> >> Could anybody recommend a library, which would meet all my
> >>> >> requirements?
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> >
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