Waveform viewer

[medwatt]

If I may ask, what is the rational behind not having a waveform viewer that allows zooming in, having cursors, etc., the sort of thing that almost all spice simulator GUIs have?

[ra3xdh]

The plotting susbsystem of Qucs-S was designed around 2003 for the Qt3 version of the application. I am only maintaining this code. I cannot say why the developers prefer to place diagram on DPL page or schematic instead of having waveform viewer tool. I suspect the concept of Qucs was copied from some early version of Agilent ADS software.

Yes, in principle I am agreed that adding waveform viewer may make the application more user-friendly. But this may require the deep redesign of the existing code. I am developing the Qucs-S in my spare time and cannot perform this task by myself. The project may fall into the eternal refactoring if no full time developers will be assigned for such tasks. Currently the Qucs-S project has no full-time developers like KiCAD that is developed by CERN. So, don't expect the redesign of the application in the near future.

[medwatt]

Thanks for your response. While I think the current way of displaying plots looks "cool" in screenshots, it has very limited usefulness.