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hi!
First of all I'm from Russia, so don't beat me for my english)

Give me please a hint how to do the following:


It is a bar chart(histogram). Letters "a", "d", "s" are supposed to be some text, but the direction of text should be
from bottom to up. It must be resized properly.

I'm programming in C.

Thanx!!

Dear Troma,
Your English is excellent, you should not be apologising for it.
Drawing a graph is done in cairo. You will have to make a customised widget. There's a tutorial on this in the Gtk website. Text direction is done by applying a rotation matrix.
Drawing a gaph is actually quite an easy task, it just requires a lot of code. A year ago I wrote a package for plotting line graphs that you could disect and turn into a bar graph widget. There's lots of features that you probably don't need (multiple plotting, handling four quadrants, wiggles on the axes, zooming and autoscaling) and will cut out as well as the actual drawing will be different for the bar look, but it might provide a good framework to get started; though I have to apologise as the code is very long due to the many if then else scenarios (I like to optimise so I avoid putting 'if's in for loops) and lacking in inline commenting.
The code is in gtk2, but as it uses cairo there's not much work neeed to bring it into a gtk3 format.
https://github.com/pchilds/GtkPlot/tree/master/PlotLinear
Let me know if you need any further advice,
Paul.

Hi, Paul!
Almost a month have been passed since you post a reply and i didn't even thank you. Sorry.
I was quite busy.
Your example is perfect, i turned it into what i needed.

Thanks you very much, you saved me:)
If there is any way to donate you i would do it with a great pleasure!

I understand that it would take a while. My code's not easy to understand and creating a good graphing program takes a lot of time.
Well GPL code is the gift that keeps on giving so if you're thinking of releasing your code then GPL it for others to do the same (depending on how much adaptation you have made, you might have to -- if you are releasing it, though I am considering putting it out there as LGPL).
Maybe in the future when I get a few other plots together it might do to assemble a plotting library together. It's something missing from GTK that'd really make it great.