I have an idea. It involves a pretty UI with low latency. Unfortunately, I lack a bit of soft-ware skills. I know JAVA, a bit of scala, C#, bit of C/C++, yadda yadda. I’m most comfy in JAVA because development is easy, although the code bases usually end up yucky one a UI is involved. What are peopl…

I recall reading that gadfly and winston were dropped as a backend for Plots.jl, which I guess means no/minimal support as julia lang improves? I’m not scared of deprecated things, but I also don’t wanna make custom widgets and have them be super slow after time to first plot gets solved.

Winston will work in the future. I keep it going since it is used in a large in-house software of mine. Plots.jl is only one option in julia. Certainly not the one and only. Wrapper libraries are always a compromise.

Good to know, maybe I will look into winston for these purposes then! It may have advantages I’m unaware of in it’s API as well. My adventures with making GTK plots interactive can be found here: Plots.jl Plot Coordinates - An Adventure

The last Gadfly release was July 15, and latest commit to master was 3 days ago. Makie also has a Cairo backend and is maintained. This is well beyond my expertise, but it’d be great if you could use the OpenGL backend. I’d definitely look into it if you’d like to do something fancy and interactive…

Interesting, maybe I misunderstood what it meant that Gadfly was deprecated as a backend for plots( Backends · Plots ). Good to know about Makie. I’ve used it with Cairo before, no clue how hard it would be to hook into a UI that wasn’t JS? Why have you been avoiding plots? Elrod - I used to be very…

30% of your GPU just to spin up a few windows? eek. Yea I am going to stick with Gtk first then. But, I intend to experiment with it nevertheless. The built in plot widgets are an attractive solution to scientific applications. At the cost of some GPU? Might be a fair trade :smiley:

GTK So I was able to get GTK running with Cairo in Julia 1.3 - no hitches whatsoever. For me, this is the solution I was looking for. Why? It’s platform agnostic It’s easy to write event listeners Custom widgets can be made with GtkCanvas, and a little elbow grease It’s fast(at least fast enough f…

I have a hard time imagining what the software you describe is used for. Are you writing some sort of IDE? Could you post a brief screen capture to illustrate?

Talking about IDEs, this is an example of in-browser IDE without much JS code, “that compiles to wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11 linux/opengl”: https://github.com/makepad/makepad and running IDE app: http://makepad.nl/

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joa-quim December 25, 2019, 5:58pm 58

There is one aspect of CImGUI that you should be aware of. It’s a very power hungry solution. See some discussion here

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