[kde-edu]: attempt at a KPlotWidget replacement based on QGraphicsView

[Robert Stevenson Neasham]

Dear Jason:

Do your Best.

Best
Robert

On 9/5/06, Jason Harris <kstars at 30doradus.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I spent the weekend trying to work out a replacement for KPlotWidget based
> on
> QGraphicsView.  It seemed like a good idea, because QGraphicsView already
> encapsulates the separation of Data space and pixel space, uses a
> model/view
> architecture, and is supposed to be fast.
>
> Unfortunately, I am rather disappointed with the results.  There's no easy
> way
> in QGraphicsView to accomodate the axis labels and tick labels, because
> the
> entire Widget is devoted to the View of the data; there's no way to set a
> QRect for the View that is smaller than the widget itself.  So I ended up
> creating a QFrame containing a 3x3 grid of widgets, where the center
> widget
> is the QGraphicsView, and the eight around the edge are to hold the axis
> information.  That's pretty ugly.
>
> It also seems much slower than the old KPlotWidget.  For example, when
> resizing the plot, there are noticeable redraw lags.  In general, it just
> feels like I am using a square peg for a round hole.
>
> It's possible that some of these shortcomings are just because I'm using
> the
> wrong approach, but I'm ready to give up on it.  If anyone else wants to
> try
> doing something with the code I've written, I can make it available.
>
> Let me know,
> Jason
>
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Mr.Robert S. Neasham, Jr.
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