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rita_her · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 1

Hello,

i need to draw charts in my application of GTK+ and i have no idea of the way of doing it.
If somebody knows, please help me!

Thanx!

caracal · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

Well most people just use cairo.

http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/chapter-drawingarea.html
http://cairographics.org/cairomm/

Charting

1. Matplotlib is a 2D graph plotting library for Python. It supports a cairo backend.

2. pyCairoChart is a 2D chart module for python which provides several options to create charts in an easy way, author is bettercom aka Martin Lesser.

3. Goffice is a library including a 2D graph component with a cairo based backend. This library is used by Gnumeric and Gnucash.

4. gnuplot is a 2D and 3D graph plotting utility. Since gnuplot 4.2, it has had an interactive terminal written with the wxWidgets library, and this terminal renders the plot with cairo. Mainstream CVS of gnuplot also outputs to pdf with cairo.

5. PLplot is a 2D and 3D plotting library with several cairo device drivers. Currently these include xwindows, ps, pdf and png.