[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39173] There is no usable graphics toolkit interactive plotter

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: There is no usable graphics toolkit interactive
plotter
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 06 Jun 2013 01:31:46 AM UTC
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Wolter
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.6.4
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I have been trying to find an interactive plotter (selected via graphics
toolkit) but I have not been able to succeed.

Here I list problems that occur with the shells I have tried:

gnuplot through X11
 - Graphics are slow (there is no GPU acceleration)
 - Sometimes titles are printed off screen, or other text
 - Sometimes replotting (by pressing a) does not replot, it just removes the
graph
 - Graphics are not antialiased and there is no way to antialias them.
 - There is no clipboard functionality. One must be able to copy a graph
directly from the shell without having to take a screenshot and edit it.

gnuplot through wxt
 - Graphics could be faster, there is also no GPU acceleration with this
shell
 - Sometimes titles are printed off screen, or other text
 - Sometimes replotting (by pressing a) does not replot, it just removes the
graph

fltk
 - Graphics are not antialiased and there is no way to antialias them.
 - There is no clipboard functionality. One must be able to copy a graph
directly from the shell without having to take a screenshot and edit it.

The purpose of this bug report is to bring attention to this point, since it
is a vital feature. The development community should focus on one shell and
make it work perfectly. It is odd to have a mathematical analysis application
that can't plot ok.





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