Throw an interactive plot at the screen quickly from a .NET Core 2.0 console application. Old versions seemed to work fine on non-Windows platforms (OSX needs the StartOnThread stuff), but the current version hasn't been tested.

This repo serves the purpose of being a minimal but not completely pointless example of OxyPlot-Avalonia where I can find it; to provide a simple example of OxyPlot under C#, VB, and F#; and to let me test stuff in a non-trivial NuGet package. It's also kind of useful if you need an interactive plot in a hurry.

Only four methods that matter:

• public static void OxySnel.Snel.StartOnThread(Action starter, bool callbackOffthread)

  Starts OxySnel on the current thread: this may be necessary for some systems (e.g. OSX)

• public static Task<IPlotWindow> OxySnel.Snel.Show(PlotModel plotModel, string windowTitle = DefaultWindowTitle)

  Opens a new Avalonia window showing the given PlotModel with its own UI Thread.

• public static Task OxySnel.Snel.Invoke(Action action)

  Invokes an Action on the UI Thread

• public static void OxySnel.Snel.Kill()

  Kills the OxySnel background stuff permanently. Once you call Show, the application won't end until you call Kill. This aspect of the API is liable to change in the future when I've come up with something less terrible.

// make a plot...
var plot = new PlotModel() { Title = "Time-to-plot" };

// add some series...
var bs = new BarSeries() { BaseValue = 0 };
bs.Items.Add(new BarItem(10));
bs.Items.Add(new BarItem(2));
plot.Series.Add(bs);

// add some axes
var categoryAxis = new CategoryAxis() { Position = AxisPosition.Left, Angle = -90 };
categoryAxis.Labels.Add("Without OxySnel");
categoryAxis.Labels.Add("With OxySnel");
plot.Axes.Add(categoryAxis);

var timeAxis = new LinearAxis() { Position = AxisPosition.Bottom, Title = "Time", Unit = "Money" };
plot.Axes.Add(timeAxis);

// show the plot
OxySnel.Snel.Show(plot);

// pause
Console.ReadKey(true);

// kill it
OxySnel.Snel.Kill();

A more fun example is provided for C#, VB, and F# in the SnelTestCS, SnelTestVB, and SnelTestFS directories.

For OSX, you need to run the UI on the startup thread. Use the OxySnel.Snel.StartOnThread method, e.g.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    OxySnel.Snel.StartOnThread(() => LogicMain(args), true);
}

static void LogicMain(string[] args)
{
    // do something fun

    // wait and kill
    Console.ReadKey(true);
    OxySnel.Snel.Kill();
}

NuGet Package feed from MyGet: https://www.myget.org/F/oxysnel/api/v3/index.json

Otherwise:

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/VisualMelon/OxySnel.git

2. Build it

   dotnet build Source/OxySnel.sln

3. Run an example?

   dotnet run --project Source/SnelTestCS/SnelTestCS.csproj

   dotnet run --project Source/SnelTestFS/SnelTestVB.fsproj

   dotnet run --project Source/SnelTestFS/SnelTestFS.fsproj

I might expand the Plot class so that people can be even more lazy. Currently, you need this many lines of code to display a plot (ignoring initialisation and cleanup).

var timePlot = OxySnel.Plot.Linear("X", "Y");
timePlot.Line(xs, ys);
OxySnel.Snel.Show(timePlot);