Howto:Creating a Canvas graph widget

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Also see: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=20024

We want to develop a generic graph widget using the Canvas system. The widget shall be usable in all major placement modes, i.e. 1) dialogs, 2) standalone GUI windows, 3) aircraft instruments.

Such a widget would be useful for a whole number of purposes, including:

• FDM/Autopilot tuning
• Plotting internal statistics (system monitor)
• Flight path evaluation (instructor station)

So the graph widget needs to be customizable for different plotting needs. In addition, we want to provide a PropertyPlotter implementation to directly plot properties from the property tree (altitude, speed, FDM/autopilot properties).

Classes

• Axis
  • Range
  • Legend
• VerticalAxis
• HorizontalAxis
• Style (Color, thickness)
• Plottable
• Graph2D
• PropertyPlotter