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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Simple XY line plot using GtkAda
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 06:18:06 -0600
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On 3/1/2016 4:30 AM, ahlan@marriott.org wrote:
> Can anyone advise me what I should use to draw a simple line
>plot using GtkAda (primarily under windows).
> Gtk.Extra.Plot seems to have been abandoned and apparently
>doesn't work on Gtk3 so what should I use? Gtkdatabox also seems to be a relic of history.
>
> Advice gratefully received,
> Ahlan
>

That is why we need a graphics package as part of Ada standard.

C++ seems to have got the idea of how important this to have
as part of the language, so it is there all the time:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0267r0.pdf

"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++"

--Nasser