On 2011-03-30 20:35-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > 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, I believe you are correct. I should have looked further. Searches for SwigJS reveal messages asking if it is dead (with no response). Sometimes this means an external language module project has been imported into swig as an internal project (this happened with Octave, for example), but a search of the swig documentation shows no mention of javascript. Sorry, Mark, but I don't think now that swig is a possibility for you. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
