On 2009-05-10 17:07-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
> Two questions about our webpage.
>
> (1) Is wxWidgets a computer language?
> (2) Do we support PyQt? Maybe it should just be Qt?
Good questions which immediately show that the two sections on the front
page entitled "Language Bindings" and Interactive Platforms should be
rearranged and rewritten.
The rewrite should keep in mind that we provide access to the PLplot API
from many computer languages _and also_ applications written for specific
graphical toolkits such as GTK+, cairo, Qt, PyQt (yes, there is such an
independent effort), Tk, and wxWidgets. To give you some background on
this, our examples of such graphical toolkit applications are
examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c (GTK+ application demonstrating the
X drawable capability of xcairo)
examples/c/ext-cairo-test.c (cairo)
examples/c/plplotcanvas_animation.c (deprecated GTK+)
examples/c/plplotcanvas_demo.c (deprecated GTK+)
examples/c++/qt_example.cpp (Qt)
examples/c++/wxPLplotDemo.cpp (wxwidgets)
examples/python/prova.py (pyqt)
examples/tk/xtk??.c (Tk)
PLplot also provide both file devices and interactive devices. The latter
includes qtwidget, gcw, xwin, tk, xcairo, etc. The distinction between
these and the corresponding "bindings" is these are just ordinary (but
interactive) devices loaded by libplplot and accessible from any of our
languages. In contrast, the bindings make the PLplot API directly accessible
to computer languages and applications written for a particular graphical
toolkit.
I have been recently writing about some of these matters in
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.4/libraries.html#bindings-libraries.
Feel free to borrow from there (or correct what I have written there).
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); 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).
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