Plotter

What is Plotter?

Plotter is a GTK+ mathematical graph plotting application. It is written entirely in Python, an object orientated interpreted programming language, using the PyGtk bindings and the ROX-Lib library.

Plotter's Features
Screenshots
Documentation
Download
History

Plotter's Features

Features of Plotter include:

Plotting of Cartesian, parametric and polar equations.
Unlimited number of plots in individual colours.
Graph zooming and panning.
Drag-and-drop loading and saving of sets of graphs.
Extensible - new functions can easily be added by writing Python code.

Screenshots

Plotter-0.1.0 displaying plots of polar, cartesian and parametric functions

Plotter-0.2.0 showing off its new user interface

Documentation

Plotter comes with comprehensive documentation in HTML format, which is also available online.

Download

Plotter is available for free download, under the terms of the GNU General Public License agreement.

plotter-0.2.1 (Sept 2001): Application Directory tarball: plotter-0.2.1.tar.gz (37 kB)
plotter-0.2.0 (Aug 2001): Application Directory tarball: plotter-0.2.0.tar.gz (55 kB)
plotter-0.1.0 (May 2000): Sources and Documentation tarball: plotter-0.1.0.tar.gz (46 kB)

To use Plotter, you need some additional software packages:

Python 1.5.1 or later
As Plotter is written in Python, you must first have Python installed. Source and binary versions for many systems are available from www.python.org. This version of Plotter requires Python 1.5.1 or later.
PyGtk 0.6.3 or later and GTK+ 1.2.1 or later
Plotter also requires PyGtk 0.6.3 or later. This is available by ftp. PyGtk is set of Python bindings to the GTK+ widget library. This means that you also need GTK+ 1.2.1 or later installed (available from www.gtk.org).
ROX-Lib 0.1.3 or later: Starting from version 0.2.0, Plotter also uses the ROX-Lib library available here.

Plotter has been designed to work well with the ROX-Filer filing manager. This is a simple and easy to use RISC-OS like graphical file manager for X11, and is also available from rox.sourceforge.net. ROX-Filer is not essential to use Plotter.

History

plotter-0.2.1 (September 2001)

Fixes bugs that show up when using Python 2.0 or later
Documentation revised

plotter-0.2.0 (August 2001)

ROX-Lib provides drag-and-drop user interface
File format changed to true Python scripts

plotter-0.1.0 (May 2000)

First public release, under the GNU General Public License.

plotter 0.0.5 (not released)

Added documentation in HTML format.
Added axes options dialog boxes.
Completed basic functionality.

plotter-0.0.1 to 0.0.4 (not released)

Early developmental versions of Plotter.
Basic functionality implemented.

Please send feedback to James Kermode.

Updated August 2001
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