best GUI library for vector drawing program

[chewie54]

Hello,

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

[Victor Bazarov]

chewie54 wrote:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

You might actually consider asking in the 'comp.graphics' hierarchy
instead of the language newsgroups.

V
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[chewie54]

On Aug 17, 9:45 am, "Victor Bazarov" <[e-mail]:

chewie54 wrote:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

You might actually consider asking in the 'comp.graphics' hierarchy
instead of the language newsgroups.

V
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That group doesn't seem to be active anymore.

[kyosohma]

On Aug 17, 8:27 am, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

Hello,

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

I think wxPython in conjunction with PIL and/or matplotlib could work.
I'm pretty sure the people on the wxPython user's list have done
vector graphics using those other libraries.

Mike

[pierbrun]

I used wxWidgets for a work like that. I found it quite easy to use and
I found simple to create a Gui with wxdev which is quite rad.
bye
Pier Paolo

[chewie54]

On Aug 17, 9:27 am, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

Hello,

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

Also, I forgot to mention that it must have scripting capabilities so
and I would like to embed a Tcl or Python interpreter.

[Jeremy Sanders]

chewie54 wrote:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

PyQt/Qt4 is capable of that (SVG export was added in Qt4.3).

I have a graph drawing application based around it (Veusz).

If you base everything around QPainter, you'll be able to write to any of
those output formats (including eps and pdf), and bitmaps. Antialiasing is
optional for bitmap formats.

Jeremy

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[chewie54]

On Aug 17, 12:08 pm, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy
[e-mail]:

chewie54 wrote:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

PyQt/Qt4 is capable of that (SVG export was added in Qt4.3).

I have a graph drawing application based around it (Veusz).

If you base everything around QPainter, you'll be able to write to any of
those output formats (including eps and pdf), and bitmaps. Antialiasing is
optional for bitmap formats.

Jeremy

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Jeremy,

I looked at your application, Veusz (it looks very nice), and I see
you have binary distrubitions
for each os. Is is difficult to build these binaries for each
system. Could
you tell me how that is done?

Thanks,
Dan

[chewie54]

On Aug 17, 12:07 pm, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

On Aug 17, 9:27 am, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

Hello,

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

Also, I forgot to mention that it must have scripting capabilities so
and I would like to embed a Tcl or Python interpreter.

I should have also mentioned that is for a commercial application.
That
doesn't rule Qt or PyQt out, but this is a startup company with very
little income so my first choice would be to use some GUI library
that
is free to use for commercial apps.
Thanks again,
Dan

[Thomas Kellerer]

chewie54 wrote on 17.08.2007 15:27:

Hello,

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

The NetBeans Platform offers a nice module for this. NetBeans itself uses it for
UML, BPEL and ERD modelling and other features (such as the visual XSD editor)

http://platform.netbeans.org/
http://graph.netbeans.org/
Thomas

[Jeremy Sanders]

chewie54 wrote:

I looked at your application, Veusz (it looks very nice), and I see
you have binary distrubitions
for each os. Is is difficult to build these binaries for each
system. Could
you tell me how that is done?

I use pyinstaller to make the binaries (see the veusz_pyinst.spec file), and
NSIS to make a Windows installer from the Windows binary (see veusz.nsi).

The Linux binary, unfortunately, isn't 100% compatible, as I've found trying
to run on 64 bit systems. I assume it's some sort of glibc mismatch. Making
the linux binaries on an old distribution helps the compatibility (I use
centos 3 in a virtual environment).

jeremy

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http://www.jeremysanders.net/

[Alexander Schmolck]

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chewie54 <df*********@gmail.comwrites:

I should have also mentioned that is for a commercial application. That
doesn't rule Qt or PyQt out, but this is a startup company with very little
income so my first choice would be to use some GUI library that is free to
use for commercial apps.

Check out the trolltech webpage: IIRC although it normally costs a few k$, you
can get it much cheaper if you are a startup (you yearly revenue must be lower
than 200k$ or something; this also only works once and maybe up to 2 licenses
or so etc).

'as

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"pierbr....e.it" <pi***@pippopippo.ppwrote:

I used wxWidgets for a work like that. I found it quite easy to use and
I found simple to create a Gui with wxdev which is quite rad.
bye
Pier Paolo

There is also pycad, but apart from knowing that it exists, I know
nothing about it.

- Hendrik

[sturlamolden]

On Aug 17, 3:27 pm, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program

I suggest you use different toolkits for windowing (GUI widgets) and
drawing the vector graphics.

It does not really matter which toolkit you use for windowing.
wxPython looks good on many platforms and are free. So it PyGTK.

For vector graphics part I suggest PyCairo, AggDraw or OpenGL,
depending on your need.

PIL and NumPy are also essential if you will be working with images

[vijay.kumar.75in]

Hi All,

Today I have downloaded a SWT Software which is great to its features.
You can learn
many GUI details out of it. The basic functionality is it lists IP
Addresses of the
remote PC's your system is accessing.

You may find the project under sourceforge.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nettymaster

You can customize this software, please let me know your views

[vijay.kumar.75in]

Hi All,

Today I have downloaded a SWT Software which is great to its features.
You can learn
many GUI details out of it. The basic functionality is it lists IP
Addresses of the
remote PC's your system is accessing.

You may find the project under sourceforge.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nettymaster

You can customize this software, please let me know your views

[Mats]

If you want to stay within Tcl/Tk you could take a look at my tkpath
package:
http://tclbitprint.sf.net/
and shots:
http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/t...rtz/index.html
http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/t...lus/index.html
http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/t...iro/index.html

Mats

[pachiburke]

On Aug 17, 3:27 pm, chewie54 <[e-mail]:

What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets,
Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT,???? I need the capibility to
draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
is very important, and I need to save the drawings in vector based
file formats like PS, EPS, SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
png, and gif. Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS, and
Linux OS, and the Mac OS.

You could use pythoncad (www.pythoncad.org) as a base and develop it
further, or even contract its main developer to expand its features to
fulfill your needs and improve it. It's based on the GTK+ toolkit,
written in python and has scripting capabilities. IMHO, it's the most
promising free CAD effort around though even if it's not as mature as
QCad.
You could use it in commercial applications as long as you comply with
the GPL, or the author agrees to dual license it for you, but it would
be very welcome if the improvements are avaliable for all users.

Regards,

Rafael

[Roedy Green]

>What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector

>based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows )

I don't know about he best, but I have collected a list of them at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

[Thomas Kellerer]

Roedy Green wrote:

>What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows )

I don't know about he best, but I have collected a list of them at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html

Roedy,

you might want to add NetBeans' Graph library to the list. It is very
similar to Eclipse's GEF

http://graph.netbeans.org/

Thomas

[chewie54]

On Aug 20, 3:04 am, Mats <[e-mail]:

If you want to stay within Tcl/Tk you could take a look at my tkpath
package:http://tclbitprint.sf.net/
and shots:http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/t...iro/index.html

Mats

Very nice. Are all the features functional? I was reading that Cairo
is cross-platform so can I use your tkpath package with Cairo for all
the platforms?

Have you implemented the save as pdf, ps, and svg vector file
formats?

Thanks for your feedback.
Dan