[Kst] View Code

[George Staikos]

   For anyone interested, the new view code is progressing well and is almost 
ready to have the 2d plots code implemented.  (there are still some design 
changes I need to make before that can happen)  There is a test view in CVS 
which you can enable by adding testview.cpp into the Makefile and defining 
KST_TEST_VIEW for kst.cpp.  In layout mode you will see that objects(=plots) 
get created, are movable, resizable, and can be "cleaned up".  There is no 
user feedback yet, and no checks for validity (it lets you resize to a 
negative size).  I will be adding these next.  I also need to fix the 
geometry scaling when the parent scales to behave as Kst currently does.

   Regarding the OpenGL issue, it might be possible to tell OpenGL to use the 
KstViewWidget and specify clip rects.  The only problem is that it will be 
tricky to implement this for multiple instances of plots, which are now a 
reality.  It could also be inefficient.  With 2D plots I intend to implement 
double buffering and caching to keep things fast.

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George Staikos
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