[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I beleive/assume that XmHTML has the ability to imbed an arbitrary
> window inside it (e.g. to display output of a java applet). Maybe
> I'm confused, but I think <APPLET WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=400> </APPLET>
> reserves a chunk of X-drawable real-estate. Then you can cram
> anything in there. So, for instance, I can embed, say the register
> thingy inside the html, and you can manipulate away, as it were a
> java applet, except that of course its not. Likewise, you should be
> able to use plotutils to draw into that area.
I wondered about this. It sounds like this will be fine. As long as
I can get a pointer to an Xdrawable, plotutils is happy.
> Is there any relationship between plotutils and gnuplot? gnuplot is ...
> well it gets the job done, has zillions of output devices, but its not
> very flashy in terms of glitz.
AFAIK gnuplot doesn't have anything like plotutils' libplot, so
embedding it would be a PITA. Also, libplot is low enough level, so
that you can easily add things like pie-charts, even though plotutils
itself has never heard of them. It handles rotations, scalings, other
affine-transformations, and getting these right for postscript,
screen, xfig, hpgl, or tek plotter output is it's problem.
I really haven't used it much yet, but it looks like it might be the
best tool for the job (unless we wanted to use mesa :> -- whose
postscript driver is fairly weak right now).
We'll see once I get going. The biggest problem I can see with
plotutils is that there's no library interface to the higher-level
graphing you can do with it's command line "plot" tool. I've spoken
to the author, though, and it should be on the way. Meantime, I can
just call plot and have it pop up a window...
Oh, and the latest GNOME's have a really nice gnome-money icon that we
could probably have if we like it.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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