[Kst] Kst as auto-configurable plotting/data processing component?

[Nicolas Brisset]

Hi Herman,

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're looking for, but my guess is that python scripting should allow you to do it.
It is available as beta under Linux but it is still incomplete, in particular we are still lacking bindings for some objects like plugins.
I don't know whether you have installed Kst from sources or as binary package, nor under which OS (and which version). But 2.0.6 compiled under Linux with the right prerequisites already allows some  quite interesting applications.
I can't really tell you how much a student could achieve in 1-2 months. It strongly depends on his background. But a good IT student with Qt/python knowledge could certainly bring quite something, for scripting or something else. I'll let Barth give his opinion, he knows much better how scripting has been implemented anc can probably give a more precise answer.
If there are other areas of Kst you'd like to improve (or have improved), let us know.

Nicolas

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Herman Bruyninckx" <Herman.Bruyninckx at mech.kuleuven.be>
> À: kst at kde.org
> Envoyé: Vendredi 14 Septembre 2012 10:05:44
> Objet: [Kst] Kst as auto-configurable plotting/data processing component?
> 
> Dear Kst developers,
> 
> we are using Kst a lot in our robotics applications, as online
> plotting
> tool. We now start up Kst manually with the right configuration (file
> to open, etc.), but I was wondering to what extent Kst can be
> configured as
> a stand-alone component that offers a "service port" to other
> components,
> via which this configuration can be done automatically. This would
> most
> probably involve the writing of a script in Kst, that makes the
> program
> wait for another component to connect and configure the Kst
> component.
> 
> Is this something that has been done already? If not, is it something
> that
> could be realised in a 1-2 months student project?
> 
> Maybe I should have asked the most important question first: is this
> "auto-configuration component" stuff something that the Kst community
> is
> interested in having in the first place?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Herman Bruyninckx
> 
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