Embed plot into GUI application

[Psirus]

I've just stumbled upon Gintro, and noticed that they have multiple examples of drawing in the resulting window using Cairo; see here, here and here. Since ggplotnim uses Cairo as a backend, would it be possible to plot directly in a GUI window?

[Vindaar]

Hey!

Thanks for the interest!

Indeed, this should be quite possible. I haven't started any work on it, as I personally didn't have a need for it so far. Simply drawing on a GTK window seems easy enough. The problem is typically people expect things to be interactive at that point too. While that is probably not super difficult to implement it, well, needs to be done.

Is this something you need for a project or are you just curious? If it's the former I can look into it sooner rather than later.

[Psirus]

I recently have found renewed motivation for an old project of mine (https://github.com/Psirus/altai), which is written in Python. And since I now generally prefer Nim, I briefly thought about a rewrite. And in my case, I wouldn't need interactivity.

So I'm curious, and I would like to use it in a project, but its neither important nor urgent.

[Vindaar]

Ah, cool!

If you just need something static, I'll see if I can get something working.

[Vindaar]

Took a while, but with #169 we now have at least a very basic, interactive backend to view plots and zoom. Improvements should be (mostly) simple to make it nicer. The same approach can of course be used for libraries other than SDL2. And it provides a reference about how one can include a ggplotnim plot into a GUI application of their own.

Standalone example here:
https://gist.github.com/Vindaar/97296bcc5ec12f1630187c1db1de11ea