On 03/30/2011 04:03 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2011-03-30 20:08+0200 Mark Fink wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> since you mention "ultimate" and "cross-platform" in your claim I assume you >> are already targeting node.js and the v8 engine as a >> platform. >> I would be interested in any attempt past or ongoing to provide a Javascript >> wrapper for your plotting tool. I guess I could personally >> support such a initiative. It currently looks that I will have a student >> working on that during this summer, too. >> >> In case it turns out that there is not such thing yet. I could need some >> ideas from you experts on how to approach that topic. I noticed >> that there are already many wrappers available and my first naive attempt >> would be to port the Python wrapper to Javascript using py2js. >> Maybe you would like to share some thoughts on that or already have a better >> idea. >> > > Hi Mark: > > Thanks for your interest in PLplot. To answer your question about > javascript bindings, you might want to consider using swig to generate > the needed bindings. Currently we use swig with a lot of success to > do this for Python, Java, Lua, and Octave. According to > http://swig.org/compat.html#SupportedLanguages, javascript is also > supported by swig so I would recommend evaluating that option, at > least.
Mark, Could you elaborate a little more about what you are trying to do? If you want to embed graphs in a web page, then I think it would probably be easier to use one of the existing language bindings on the server side to generate an image or svg file. I think that it will be quite difficult to combine PLplot with javascript to generate graphs on the client side. Alan, Hmm, I don't see javascript listed as one of the languages supported by swig. Are you sure? The page you suggest mentions something called SwigJS, but a Google search suggests that this project is no longer under active development. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
