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<p class="MsoNormal">BTW, a year or so ago I spent time trying to build KST – in order to try to contribute. It was very difficult. I think I had some luck with some old version of Linux but then couldn’t build a Windows binary.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I love KST and use it extensively and want to keep it alive. I have minimal spare time and can’t spend a couple weeks getting a smooth build going.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have a clear and complete set of instructions for building KST (at a minimum for Windows)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Bill Gee <bgee@campercaver.net> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 19, 2020 8:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Maher, Stephen F. (GSFC-665.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] <stephen.f.maher@nasa.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> kst@kde.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] Using dates on the X-axis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hi Stephen -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">I am afraid you are correct. It appears that KST is not under active development. If this becomes a major problem I will have to find another
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">LabPlot is one possibility. I have looked at LibreOffice Calc, but it has been awhile and I don't remember exactly why I found it unsuitable.
It might be worth another look.<br>
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On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:54:24 AM CST Maher, Stephen F. (GSFC-665.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> From: Kst <<a href="mailto:kst-bounces@kde.org">kst-bounces@kde.org</a>> On Behalf Of Bill Gee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:40 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Using dates on the X-axis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> I generate graphs every now and then which show a year of data. The data is temperature and water depth. It all works well, except that
the x-axis is marked in days since zero. I would MUCH rather have the x-axis show actual dates. It would be enough to show the first of each month. There are 35000 data points in each graph, so showing every date would not work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> So far I have not found a way to do this. Can anyone give me any clues?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> KST version = 2.0.8 (from Fedora repository)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> Fedora 31, 64-bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> 01/01/19 01:00:00,14.8028,14.3821,0.857,53.798<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> In the window for editing a graph, under X-Axis I have tried every combination I can think of for date interpretation and display format.
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