Qwt User's Guide  6.1-rc3
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Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications

The Qwt library contains GUI Components and utility classes which are primarily useful for programs with a technical background. Beside a 2D plot widget it provides scales, sliders, dials, compasses, thermometers, wheels and knobs to control or display values, arrays, or ranges of type double.

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License

Qwt is distributed under the terms of the Qwt License, Version 1.0.

Platforms

Qwt 6.1 might be usable in all environments where you find Qt. It is compatible with Qt4 ( >= 4.4 ) and Qt5.

What's new

Read the summary of the most important changes.

Screenshots

Downloads

Stable releases, prereleases and snapshots are available at the Qwt project page.

For getting a snapshot with all bugfixes for the latest 5.2 release:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/qwt/code/branches/qwt-5.2

For getting a snapshot with all bugfixes for the latest 6.0 release:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/qwt/code/branches/qwt-6.0

For getting a development snapshot from the SVN repository:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/qwt/code/trunk/qwt

Qwt doesn't distribute binary packages, but today all major Linux distributors offer one. Note, that these packages often don't include the examples.

Installation

Have a look at the qwt.pro project file. It is prepared for building dynamic libraries in Win32 and Unix/X11 environments. If you don't know what to do with it, read the file INSTALL and/or the Qt documentation. Once you have build the library you have to install all files from the lib, include and doc directories.

Support

Related Projects

QwtPolar, a polar plot widget.
QwtPlot3D, an OpenGL 3D plot widget.
QtiPlot, data analysis and scientific plotting tool, using QwtPlot.

Language Bindings

PyQwt, a set of Qwt Python bindings.
Korundum/QtRuby, including a set of Qwt Ruby bindings.

Donations

Sourceforge offers a Donation System via PayPal. You can use it, if you like to support the development of Qwt.

Credits:

Authors:
Uwe Rathmann, Josef Wilgen ( <= Qwt 0.2 )
Project admin:
Uwe Rathmann <rathm.nosp@m.ann@.nosp@m.users.nosp@m..sou.nosp@m.rcefo.nosp@m.rge..nosp@m.net>