From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,39ace4c4032cf84b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: question on GtkAda References: <82aak6fb5d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:13:29 -0500 Message-ID: <82aak4ub1i.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y2QCMGNALL3H10POiaWGSohsyVk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: a92434d0b0b5ee029e66111668 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16971 Date: 2010-12-17T02:13:29-05:00 List-Id: "Nasser M. Abbasi" writes: > On 12/15/2010 11:07 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: >> "Nasser M. Abbasi" 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. -- -- Stephe