Florence

1. Introduction
2. Origins
3. The Name
4. Build Instructions
5. Getting Started
6. Imperative API

Introduction

Florence is a plotting library for .NET/Mono. While still in its early stages of development, Florence aims to provide a core API that is full featured, flexible core, object-oriented, and GUI Toolkit independent. Additionally, it will provide a simpler API suitable for interactive use. Currently, WinForms, Gtk#, and BitMap backends are implemented. Gtk# support is new and still a bit buggy. System.Web support is leftover from the NPlot days and is in an unknown state.

Origins

Florence began as a fork of the NPlot library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nplot/) and owes a good deal of its functionality to that project and its contributors. Major contributors to NPlot include:

• Matt Howlett

The Name

Florence is named in honor of Florence Nightingale, an early prolific user of graphs for practical purposes.

Build Instructions

1. Have Visual Studio 2010 or later installed.
2. Open Florence.sln
3. Build

Getting Started

• The best place to start with the object oriented API is the demo, located in demo/csharp/FlorenceDemo.sln. There are WinForms and Gtk# versions of the demo.
• The best place to start with the imperative/interactive API is the example, located at examples\SimpleTestApp.sln. There are WinForms and Gtk# versions of example.

Imperative API

• The imperative API is still very new, most of the infrastructure is complete, but the actual usable part of the api is limited to point and line plots.