Re: [genius-list] interfacing with genius as inferior process

tis 2007-01-30 klockan 17:19 +0000 skrev George:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:03:02AM +0100, Marco Maggi wrote:
> > I am writing a Guile interface to the GNU Scientific
> > Library. At present, to plot function graphs I spawn
> > an inferior thread that runs a TCL/TK interface with
> > the BLT TCL extension. This allows me to plot and to
> > share vectors of coordinates by converting, at the
> > C language level, GSL vectors to BLT vectors.
> >
> > In the long term I would like to use GNOME as
> > function plotter. I wonder if Genius can be used
> > like this.
> >
> > There should be no problems in making Guile spawn
> > Genius as inferior process and interacting with it
> > by faking a user interaction at the command prompt.
>
> Currently this is not possible. The command line version is not linked with
> plotting functionality and the GUI version currently has no interface for
> controlling it externally (I was planning to do this, but so far didn't get
> to it).
>
> If you just need plotting by giving me a bunch of point values, I'm really
> just using gtkextra for the plotting functionality, perhaps directly using
> that is a better choice. Or using scigraphica, I think that was the original
> purpose of scigraphica.

For a plot generator, ploticus is very good, actually.

http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html

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