launch an interactive plot without creating a GUI for it

After creating a plot:

var plt = new ScottPlot.Plot(width, height);
var data = ScottPlot.DataGen.Sin(100);
plt.PlotSignal(data);

It would be nice if you could launch a launch a data browser window using a one-line command without actually having to create a window and add a user control… something like:

plt.LaunchFormsPlot();
plt.LaunchWpfPlot();

The code could live in extension methods packaged in the user control modules.

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programmatically add a FormsPlot

Going this way you get right result, but this is not so simple. You need to inject or sync existing plot with FormsControl.Plot.There are a lot possible side effects. To avoid that, good way is add additional FormsControl constructor accepting plot as argument. In this constructor repeat all code instead of creating new plot.

This is an interesting idea! I think I understand it properly… it would let the user do something like this to launch their plot in a mouse-interactive window:

var plt = new ScottPlot.Plot();
plt.PlotSignal(ScottPlot.DataGen.Sin(100));

ScottPlot.WinForms.Show(plt);

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I’ll keep developing this as part of 4.1 (it’s not really an issue)