[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Plotting: Windows version of Yorick & Gist graphics

[Tom Short]

A win95/nt beta version of the array language Yorick is available
at:

   ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/Yorick

It is an MFC program which is similar to PythonWin 
(commands are entered into an edit-like window).

This is a very useful tool in its own right, but of special interest
for NumPy is the Gist graphics library included with Yorick. It is
available for unix, the mac, and now windows. It would be a good 
choice for a cross platform graphics library for NumPy.

The folks at LLNL have already done an interface to Python (PyGist),
and a few weeks ago, their posts to this list indicated that they
were working on an object-oriented interface.

E-mail from Steve Langer (who ported Yorick to Windows and the Mac)
said that he did not think anyone at LLNL was doing a port of Gist
for PythonWin. Steve did issue one warning though:

> There are some issues about the Python event loop vs.
> the Gist event loop that would probably be very different under
> windows and UNIX.

Someone with a compiler may want to get the source code from Steve
(shl@icf.llnl.gov) and try and interface it with
PythonWin+NumPy+PyGist. If anyone else from LLNL has any suggestions
or comments on their plans for PyGist, please let us know.

- Tom
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