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user3318922
user3318922

Reputation: 51

can gtkextra work with gtk+3

I am developing an application in glade 3.14.2. It uses gtk+ 3.

I want to plot a graph but GtkPlot is deprecated in gtk+ 3. I came across GtkExtra but it seems it only works with gtk+ 2. Is that so? If yes, how can I plot in gtk+ 3?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 795

Answers (1)

drahnr
drahnr

Reputation: 6886

As of now GtkDataBox is the most mature one, although there are plenty of attempts in various stages (pre-alpha, soon to be beta, working concept, nice but unmaintained and for gtk2,...) and for various purposes (animated for dynamic data, ...).

A matter of fact, most introduce a dependency on (lib)gnuplot in order to get plotting, which in my humble opinion is far from visually pleasing.

Reading the source, GtkExtra requires gtk+2.x >= 2.12. So that is a No.

Note that you could do really hacky things like rendering with gtk+ 2 to an offscreen buffer (via cairo) that gtk+ 3 renders as yourwidget content for a custom GtkDrawingArea derived widget - but I strongly disrecommend doing that, it'd probably be faster to port GtkPlot to gtk+ 3)

Note: For me the autotools setup of GtkDataBox did not work and thus I did a quick hack so it uses the waf buildsystem https://github.com/drahnr/gtkdatabox-radioactive

Upvotes: 1

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