Am 14.09.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Mike McKee: > Is there a way to do a canvas in GTK3 so that I can use chart.js, and > connect this to D? See, in something similar, a guy named Julien Wintz > figured out that Qt's QQuickWidget acts much like the webkit Canvas > object, and thus was able to port chart.js to that widget. This allows > one to use Qt + QQuickWidget + D (or any Qt-supported language for that > matter) to draw charts using Javascript, using the chart.js > documentation. What's also fascinating about this is that it's fairly > lightweight -- Julien's solution doesn't use Chromium (or other webkit > implementation) to make it work. (It should be noted, however, that > QQuickWidget uses OpenGL, however.) Likewise, it would be great if I > could do something similar in GTK3. > > See, I like D, and I'm getting somewhere with it with GTK3, but doing > static charts like I see with chart.js is important for my use of this > language. >
I'm guessing the port was so easy because the QQuickWidgets have access to the V8 javascript engine (from Chromium ) that is included with Qt. As GTK doesn't have a javascript engine integrated a straightforward port of chartjs won't work.
