Re: question on GtkAda

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> On 12/15/2010 11:07 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> "Nasser M. Abbasi"<nma@12000.org>  writes:
>>
>>> Another question: If someone want to do plotting from Ada, how
>>> would one do that? GtkAda is just for making GUI?
>>
>> I use Ada to write a data file, then plot it with gnuplot.
>>
>> That gives a nice interactive system.
>>
>
> Yes, this is an option, and I have done that with Fortran.
>
> But I need to be able to plot during run-time. Many times,
> I'd like to examine the plot at each step, during debugging,
> makes it much easier to have all that integrated.

Ok, that makes sense.

You _could_ start a gnuplot process from Ada, but I agree a direct plot
API would be better.

It might not be hard to create an Ada binding to the gnuplot library;
that would be useful in general.

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