michaelriss / ftsplot Goto Github PK

Hi. First, thanks for this really nice plotting soft.
I think it would be really interesting to use your code to plot timeseries from python or C program without having to go manually through all the mess of file formatting, etc. I mean a C/python API where you just enter ftsplot(x,y1,y2,y3,...) and its handles the files creation and processing in a temporary folder and plots the result.
I can do the python interface, but I would just need a "API" to hook at with the following features:

• FtsPrep: given a file, process it in headless mode, return the path of the corresponding resulting config file
• FtsPlot:
  • given a flat file of events or intervals & a folder, import the flat file into the folder
  • given a list of timeseries config files and events folders, open a windows with the corresponding plots

Do you think it would be time consuming to create those three functions? I dive into the code but I do not know anything about QT. Additionally it would be nice if we could set up the colors of the plot.

If you could provide me with those functions, I could make a python package which could greatly improve ease of use of your library.
Thanks

I cannot build FTSPlot using the instructions in your README on Ubuntu 16.04. A number of build targets fail for me with with a linker error similar to this:

/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/FTSPlot.dir/FTSPlotMain.cpp.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XInitThreads'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles/FTSPlot.dir/build.make:165: recipe for target 'FTSPlot' failed
make[2]: *** [FTSPlot] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:67: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/FTSPlot.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/FTSPlot.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:83: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

If I manually edit the link.txt files to include -lX11 then FTSPlot builds correctly.

I'm not familiar enough with CMake or Qt to fix this in the CMakeLists.txt file itself.