[vtkusers] Qt-Chart vs Chart vs Hybrid-XYPlot

[skific]

Thanks for the reply. As I understood, the VTK\Charts will be THE 2D 
engine for VTK.
 From CVS logs one can see that the module is fairly new, so how stable 
is it's API?
best regards,
s

On 29.3.2010 21:01, Jeff Baumes wrote:
> Excellent question. The best I can do is explain how used each is,
> which will give you an idea of how they may be extended and supported
> in the future.
>
> The charts in GUISupport\Qt\Charts were being used by the ParaView
> application up until very recently, when it switched to the new charts
> being built in VTK\Chart. Don't expect to see much in the way of fixes
> in the former (and they may be removed entirely in the near future),
> but you should see lots of activity in the latter in the coming years.
>
> The chart classes in Hybrid predate anything else, and are used
> heavily in at least a few applications, especially ones with
> dependencies to older versions of VTK. They are simpler, but may not
> have as many features. I'd like to see these migrated to VTK\Chart at
> some point, but they have more likelihood of sticking around for a
> while.
>
> Hope that gives you some sense of the current state of things.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:38 AM, skific<skific at riteh.hr>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm new to VTK, and while browsing the docs, I was wondering why 
>> three 2D
>> plotting classes(modules) exist within VTK?
>> What is their purpose? Will all three of them be maintained in the 
>> future?
>> best regards,
>> s
>>