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Feature Suggestion

Feature description: I have been succesfully using ScottPlot a plotting library in Powershell (both 5 and 7) for quite some time, I don’t know if you want to support this feature, anyway I have written a Powershell Quickstart sample.

Code example:

#[1]
Add-Type -Path .\ScottPlot.dll

[double[]] $dataX = @( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )
[double[]] $dataY = @( 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 )
$plt = [ScottPlot.Plot]::new(400, 300)
[Void] $plt.AddScatter($dataX, $dataY)
[Void] $plt.SaveFig("$pwd\quickstart.png")


#[2]
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Add-Type -Path .\ScottPlot.dll
Add-Type -Path .\ScottPlot.WinForms.dll

#https://github.com/ScottPlot/ScottPlot/blob/main/src/ScottPlot4/ScottPlot.Sandbox/WinFormsApp/Form1.Designer.cs

#formsPlot1
$formsPlot1 = [ScottPlot.FormsPlot]::new()
$formsPlot1.Anchor = [System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles]::Bottom -bor [System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles]::Right -bor [System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles]::Top -bor [System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles]::Left 
$formsPlot1.BackColor = [System.Drawing.Color]::Transparent
$formsPlot1.Location = [System.Drawing.Point]::new(0, 12)
$formsPlot1.Margin = [System.Windows.Forms.Padding]::new(4, 3, 4, 3)
$formsPlot1.Name = "formsPlot1"
$formsPlot1.Size = [System.Drawing.Size]::new(808, 405)
$formsPlot1.TabIndex = 0

#Form1
$Form1 = [System.Windows.Forms.Form]::new()
$Form1.AutoScaleDimensions = [System.Drawing.SizeF]::new(7, 15)
$Form1.AutoScaleMode = [System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode]::Font
$Form1.ClientSize = [System.Drawing.Size]::new(808, 417)
$Form1.Controls.Add($formsPlot1)
$Form1.Name = "Form1"
$Form1.StartPosition = [System.Windows.Forms.FormStartPosition]::CenterScreen
$Form1.Text = "FormsPlot Sandbox"

#https://github.com/ScottPlot/ScottPlot/blob/main/src/ScottPlot4/ScottPlot.Sandbox/WinFormsApp/Form1.cs

[Void] $formsPlot1.Plot.AddScatter([ScottPlot.DataGen]::Consecutive(51), [ScottPlot.DataGen]::Sin(51))
[Void] $formsPlot1.Plot.AddSignal([ScottPlot.DataGen]::Cos(51))
[Void] $formsPlot1.Plot.AddVerticalLine(25)
[Void] $formsPlot1.Plot.AddText("test 123", 20, .5)
[Void] $formsPlot1.Plot.AddMarker(15, -.5, [ScottPlot.MarkerShape]::openCircle, 20)

[Void] $Form1.ShowDialog()

[swharden]

Powershell Core is the recommended way

Wow, this was so much easier! I guess Windows PowerShell really lags behind PowerShellCore when it comes to support for modern .NET code. Thanks for pointing this out!

PowerShell Quickstart

Step 1: Get PowerShell Core

• Do not use Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell Core can run on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
• Download from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

Step 2: Build an empty .NET app using ScottPlot

• dotnet new console
• dotnet add package scottplot
• dotnet build

Step 3: Create a PowerShell script

• Enter the builder folder containing ScottPlot.dll
• Create myScript.ps1 and copy the following contents into it
• Run the script using PowerShell Core (not Windows PowerShell)

Add-Type -Path .\ScottPlot.dll
[double[]] $dataX = @( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )
[double[]] $dataY = @( 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 )
$plt = [ScottPlot.Plot]::new(400, 300)
[Void] $plt.AddScatter($dataX, $dataY)
[Void] $plt.SaveFig("$pwd\quickstart.png")

[CarloToso]

Thank you @bclehmann , I’ll edit my markdown.