1.6 Interfaces

The MathGL library has interfaces for a set of languages. Most of them are based on the C interface via SWIG tool. There are Python, Java, Octave, Lisp, C#, Guile, Lua, Modula 3, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Pike, R, Ruby, and Tcl interfaces. Also there is a Fortran interface which has a similar set of functions, but slightly different types of arguments (integers instead of pointers). These functions are marked as [C function]. Some of the languages listed above support classes (like Python). For them, a special wrapper was written. These classes and functions are marked as (Python). Finally, a special command language MGL was written for a faster access to C++ plotting functions. Corresponding scripts can be executed separately (by UDAV, mgl2png, mgl2eps and so on) or from the C++ code (see section mglParse class). These commands are described in MGL language.