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Qwt creates wonderful programs. But the build procedure for MSVC is broken for some playground/example programs. I therefore created a GNU-makefile for it. It's here for anyone interested:
gist.github.com/gvanem (slash) 46a43de4f6d2376260c27430dbb003f1
(since URLs here are prohibited).
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Developers familiar with Qt know that its strengths lie in an easy to use API, extensive documentation and generally being a fairly comprehensive framework. Unfortunately, one thing the Qt framework is missing is an out of the box charting solution.
This is where Qwt steps in. It is built upon Qt and offers a fair selection of 2d charts. Sounds good.
Unfortunately it isn't.
I have no doubt the author (Uwe Rathmann) is an experienced programmer, particularly with Qt, but Qwt shares non-of the user friendly advantages that Qt provides. The documentation is not easy to follow. The API is not intuitive. It is inefficient in many places. And is far from bug free.
Qwt enjoys it's own sub section over at QtCentre where you will be able to interact directly with Uwe and another (rather terse) developer called Wysota.
We use it because there is no alternative and we are not given time to roll our own (which I would love to do). If you love the ease at which you can use Qt do not expect the same experience from Qwt.
Sadly, whilst Qwt is the best charting library for Qt, that does not mean it is good.
User Reviews
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Thumbs up!!!
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Outstanding utility.
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I take it everywhere I go :)
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Amazing job, thanks for telling
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Excellent library! I didn't know anything about it but in avery short time I have made a great job ;). Examples provided are complete, even if some part of the documentatio are incompleted.
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great library
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Very Good
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Very Good
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very powerful, the documentation is not very complete
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удобно и просто
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Very capable library. Would reccommend it to anyone.
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excellent and stable... i love dials created=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwt
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Very useful library for plotting, and the documentation is really not all that bad (if you're willing to spend a little bit of time understanding the code).
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The code is good quality and produces good results, but the documentation is too skimpy and often doesn't bother to explain the terminology used. It's frequently impossible to work out how to do things without reading the library code. There is far too little in the way of overviews on how to do things.
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The quality of the project is very high and the choice of classes and methods is wide. The main problem is the documentation available only as Doxygen document. For an average programmer it is much more difficult to approach this library than the huge Qt itself. As a little contribution I can provide some examples but I need to know how to do. Let me know ...
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Good well-structured code and seems quite stable. The provided Examples help but docs could do with more overview items and drawing together of the topics. Qdos to the devs though!
