On 2009-04-05 11:07-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Any suggestions on how one might use the qtwidget device as part of a > larger Qt based application?
This is an interesting topic which brings some broader questions into play. To give some context, PLplot currently has the tk, gcw, and wxwidgets device drivers that are dynamically loaded by PLplot and which are available from any language where we provide PLplot bindings (i.e., where we make the PLplot API available to the language in question). At the same time, PLplot provides tk, gnome2, and wxwidgets bindings to make the PLplot API available for Tk, GNOME, and wxwidgets application GUI's. For most if not all of these cases, I believe some code is shared between the device mode and the corresponding GUI bindings mode. So its a bit confusing, but in device mode we provide device facilities to PLplot, while in bindings mode we provide PLplot facilities to the GUI application. Qt is widespread even beyond its role as the basis for the KDE desktop so I think it makes a lot of sense to provide a Qt bindings mode corresponding to the qt device mode that we currently have. Which then leads to Hazen's question about implementation suggestions which I hope Alban will be able to answer as the principal developer of the qt device and the best expert on Qt that we have access to. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
