From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Mar 13 23:19:03 2000
Subject: (Yet Another) promising plotting graphics package?
From: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:21:00 +0000


Hi,


<http://www.ifir.edu.ar/grupos/gtk/introduction.html>

> GtkPlot 
> 
> 
> I do really feel the need of a powerful tool for scientific plots in the Unix world. I understand that Gnuplot is fantastic,
> but it's isn't dedicated to quality presentations. On the other side, Xmgr and Xvgr do supply all this requirements, but
> they don't have a good interface for editing and interacting with the data. 
> 
> I believe that the last item can be easily supplied by GtkSheet but, until now, we didn't have a widget for drawing
> quality plots in GTK. Thus, I decided to start the GtkPlot project in order to bring all the tools for scientific
> applications needing such visual interface. 
> 
> GtkPlot is a powerful tool for drawing quality scientific plots, with a look and feel very similar to Microcal Origin for
> Windows. You can add sets of numerical data to the plots and display them using different styles of lines and points,
> and error bars. You can join them using straight lines, steps, splines, etc. It's easy to change the axis properties,
> ticks intervals, label orientations, add gridlines, legends, function graphs, and more. 
> 
> The package includes GtkPlotLayout, a GtkLayout subclass that allows to display the plots in a layered way. 

together with

<http://gtkextramm.sourceforge.net/>

> GtkExtra--
> 
> Introduction
> 
> GtkExtra-- provides C++ wrappers for GtkExtra, for use with Gtk--, 
> 
> This includes the GtkPlot and GtkSheet widgets, among others.

Joao