Hi Jeremy, I've started using veusz since a month and has become a big fan of the program. The biggest strength of the program in my opinion is the 1:1 integration of scripting and GUI. There are many plotting programs provide good scripting support (e.g. gnuplot, GMT), good GUI support+scripting (qtiplot). But what I needed was a program which enable me to `scaffold' a graph quickly with GUI and then use scripting to do things efficiently (e.g. plot different data-sets without revisiting the GUI). veusz does exactly that -- a very nice piece of software!
One of the `drawbacks' of the program at the moment, at least for me: suppose you do the above (GUI->modify a script) then you load the script to veusz again to see the results of your manual editing. At this stage, if you accidentally press `Save' button, the GUI overwrites your code without skipping a beat. All your customizations are lost -- unless you remembered to backup you custom script beforehand. I tried renaming the script with extension .py (instead of .vsz), but still the behavior is same. I am not sure what is the best approach to remedy this situation. Perhaps as a suggestion: would it be an idea to have GUI to save .vsz files even when a script called *.py is loaded. Then the user could be advised to do customizations after renaming the initial script file to .py. This way the danger of losing your hours of work could be avoided. -- Just a thought. Thanks for giving us veusz! Assela Pathirana, Tel: +31(0)15 215 1854/Fax: +31(0)15 212 2921 Urban Water and Sanitation Department UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Veusz-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
