GtkChart - a chart widget for GTK4

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Introduction

The beginnings of a small chart widget library for GTK4.

This is a spinoff from the lxi-tools project.

Much can be improved but it is better than nothing.

Looking for maintainers or contributors to help improve this library. Please reach out if interested!

Motivation

Couldn't find a chart widget library for GTK4 so created one.

Features

• Various chart types
  • Line
  • Scatter
  • Linear gauge
  • Angular gauge
  • Number
• Dimensionally scalable
• Plot and render data live
• Save rendered chart to PNG
• Save plotted data to CSV
• Demo application

Todo

• Optimize Cairo/snapshot code
• Make charts handle negative axis ranges
  • Introduce gtk_chart_set_x_min()
  • Introduce gtk_chart_set_y_min()
• Make charts zoomable
• Make chart axes autoscale depending on plot value
• Etc.

Usage

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <gtkchart.h>
...
// Required for GtkChart to be recognized by builder
gtk_chart_get_type();
...
GtkChart *chart = GTK_CHART(gtk_chart_new());
gtk_chart_set_type(chart, GTK_CHART_TYPE_LINE);
gtk_chart_set_title(chart, "Title");
gtk_chart_set_label(chart, "Label");
gtk_chart_set_x_label(chart, "X label [ ]");
gtk_chart_set_y_label(chart, "Y label [ ]");
gtk_chart_set_x_max(chart, 100);
gtk_chart_set_y_max(chart, 10);
gtk_chart_set_width(chart, 800);
...
gtk_chart_plot_point(chart, 0.0, 0.0);
gtk_chart_plot_point(chart, 1.0, 1.0);
gtk_chart_plot_point(chart, 2.0, 2.0);
gtk_chart_plot_point(chart, 3.0, 3.0);
...
gtk_chart_save_csv(chart, "chart0.csv");
gtk_chart_save_png(chart, "chart0.png");

See the demo application for more details.

Chart Types