Plot2Kill 0.02

[Rory McGuire]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:37:23 +0200, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad (public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet)'s article
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:37:30 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>> > == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad (public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet)'s  
>> article
>> >> Even if you SSH into it, you can still run GUI apps remotely using X
>> >> forwarding.  But if you're saying that the machine doesn't have X
>> >> installed at all (do those still exist?), I have no suggestions.  
>> -Lars
>> >
>> > That, or you want to run the job as a batch job via nohup and have  
>> your
>> > plots appear in some directory the next day.
>> Ah, I see.  I guess the solution which would be most flexible in the  
>> long
>> run would be to make the GUI abstraction "abstract enough" that it isn't
>> limited to GUIs -- sort of like gnuplot does with its notion of
>> 'terminals'.  Then backends could be created for writing to various file
>> formats.  But that's probably quite a lot of work.
>> I started using Plot2Kill "for real" at work today, BTW, and it works
>> very well.  Now, if someone made a CAS library for D, I would never  
>> again
>> have to reach for any tool other than vim and dmd... ;)
>> -Lars
>
> Yea, it wouldn't be terribly hard (actually, it would be quite easy  
> since I
> wouldn't need to get all the GUI stuff right) to port Plot2kill to a  
> GUI-less
> drawing framework, if one existed that a decent D binding/wrapper.  I'm  
> guessing
> that at best, I'd find a binding to some low-level C API if I looked,  
> though.
>
> In the meantime, to prepare for such a possibility, I should probably  
> refactor
> some stuff to completely separate the drawing logic from the GUI logic,  
> i.e.
> Figure should not inherit from DrawingArea, but should instead have a  
> toWidget()
> method that returns a DrawingArea subclass that has-a Figure that is  
> automatically
> drawn onto it.

Cairo probably makes the most sense. Then you can do pdf, svg, jpg,  
opengl...

-Rory