SciD: the humble beginning

[Lukas Pinkowski]

dsimcha wrote:
>> Is it really that hard to have the GUI libs in question just give you
>> some pixels in memory or an opengl context?  Then you could use your own
>> highly optimized plot drawing routines instead of relying on the GUI lib
>> to do this.  I figured this kind of thing would be unbeatable for
>> performance, unless the library ties your hands.
> 
> I had considered this.  The biggest problem is font rendering.

In case of Qt, you can use a QGraphicsView on an OpenGL-widget. You can draw 
a 'background' with OpenGL (your plot) and render text with 
QGraphicsTextItem.