Quickplot

Version 0.8.6

A fast interactive 2D plotter


Quickplot Home-page

http://quickplot.sourceforge.net/

What good is Quickplot?

You can very quickly swim through data with Quickplot.  I wrote it to do my dynamics work and if other people can use it, that's great.

What can Quickplot do other 2D plotters can't do?

The difference between this 2D plotter and most 2D plotters is that the primary purpose of Quickplot is to help you quickly interact with your data.  Of secondary importance is to make a pretty static picture of your data.  Features that distinguish Quickplot include: one click zooming, any number of plots with different scales displayed at one time, value picking for any number of plots with different scales displayed at one time, and reading data from standard input.  These features become indispensable when you're looking at data sets with 10,000 to 1,000,000 and more data points.  You can't look at a 2D plot with 100,000 points unless you can quickly zoom.  If you need to look at hundreds of files each with 100,000 points, the command line options in Quickplot may save your sanity.

Quickplot can display sound files with many sound formats.

Quickplot is more like an interactive data browser than an interactive picture editor.

All future versions of Quickplot will keep the show me the data quickly theme.  So all future additions to this program must preserve this quick and lean theme.  This does not rule out the additions that make this program a more full-featured 2D plotter that one can make pretty pictures with.


Installation prerequisites

Quickplot uses the GNU Autotools (./configure) to build and install. To build Quickplot from the distribution source tarball (example: quickplot-0.8.6.tar.bz2) the following packages are required to be installed: To build and develop Quickplot from the CVS source the following packages, in addition to the above packages, are required to be installed:

The name and history of this program

We call it Lanceman's Quickplot in order to distinguish it from another program called Quickplot which predates this program.  It used to be on NeXT computers.  It may have died with NeXT.

This is a complete rewrite, by the original author, of the Lanceman's Quickplot which first appeared in 1998, and managed to find its way into the Debian GNU/Linux distribution soon after.

Quickplot started out in 1998 as an Athena Widgets X11 GUI program, in 2003 it was rewritten as a QT GUI program, and in 2004 it was changed to a GTK+ GUI program using the gtkmm C++ wrapper to GTK+.


Authors

Lance Arsenault   http://quickplot.sourceforge.net/lanceman/

I'm open for anyone to help.


Copy Right and Legal Notice

Quickplot is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (v2+).

Quickplot -- a fast interactive 2D plotter
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004 Lance Arsenault

Quickplot is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

Quickplot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Quickplot, in a file named COPYING; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.


 
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Quickplot    version 0.8.6    release date: Thu Jan 6 20:26:45 EST 2005