Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap Integrated waveform displayer Details

[al davis]

On Sunday 15 June 2014, Abhinav singh wrote:
> > similarly, the plot window should allow some interaction on
> > graphs, like change colors, style or delete them. (read:
> > it should be possible to add these features some day).
> 
> How you wants to do it by using an interface or through
> command window?

Both!

Everything should be done through gnucap commands.

Then you can have a command window, a place where you can enter 
gnucap commands.  (maybe restricted, maybe not restricted)

And you can have buttons and other GUI features too.  The 
buttons issue gnucap commands.

This way of doing it is modular.  Modularity is important.

Imagine ... a few years from now, it becomes desirable to port 
to a different graphics library.  What will you do?

Example of that:  Several FOSS projects were built around QT 
version 3, then experienced great pain trying to convert to QT 
version 4.  Some of them still have not been successful at doing 
this.  

These things come and go.  Some of us remember things like Xaw, 
Motif, Open Look, NeXT, ...