What's missing

[SimonDanisch]

There is actually not that much to do anymore until this is fully functioning:

• [x] fully hook up interactivity (easy)
• [x] hook up buffer updates
• [x] images, heatmaps (very easy)
• [x] decent lines (harder) ... Not really decent yet, they're still not super nice, but its at least usable now
• [x] volumes (easy)
• [x] maximum intensity projection
• [x] export to png/jpeg (not sure?)

[asinghvi17]

Any chance of export to svg? Reading through the Three.js docs they don't seem to support much...

[SimonDanisch]

i wouldtn try to support svg via threejs...

[SimonDanisch]

Layouting, subscenes and all cameras work now: https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/wglmakie

[asinghvi17]

When I try it locally nothing is displayed - in Jupyter and Juno.

[SimonDanisch]

did you activate the plot pane?

[asinghvi17]

Another thing - is there a possibility of a Blink display backend? (For those of us who use the REPL)

[SimonDanisch]

yeah that should just work ;)

[asinghvi17]

Can’t seem to figure out how to use Blink as a display backend for WGLMakie. I think that it boils down to something like:

using AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie
sc = lines(rand(10))
using Blink
w = Window()

body!(w, show(MIME"text/html", sc))

but that doesn't seem to work.

EDIT: To use Blink, this works:

using Blink
w = Window()
using WebIO
n = node(:div, "hi")
body!(w, n)
using AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie
scene = scatter(rand(4))
body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene))

[Timmmdavis]

I tried the above: using Blink; w = Window(); using WebIO; n = WebIO.node(:div, "hi"); body!(w, n); using AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie; scene = scatter(rand(4)); body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene)); I get the following error (on the last line): body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene)) ERROR: MethodError: no method matching JSModule(::getfield(WGLMakie, Symbol("##9#10")){Int64,Int64}, ::Symbol, ::String) Stacktrace: [1] three_scene(::Scene) at C:\Users\Berlin\.julia\packages\WGLMakie\Ysuil\src\WGLMakie.jl:174 [2] top-level scope at none:0 Do you have any suggested solutions?

[SimonDanisch]

Setup is a bit complicated ATM: https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/wglmakie

[Timmmdavis]

Great, thanks for the speedy reply, got it working after running the pkg add command from the top line of your next journal (used the default WebIO not WebIO#sd-httpheader): e.g. plotting a mesh:

using Blink, WebIO;  
using AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie, MakieGallery;
w = Window(); 
n = WebIO.node(:div, "hi"); body!(w, n); 
scene=run_example("Colored Mesh");
body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene));

A long shot but have you tested this with PackageComplier?

[SimonDanisch]

Not yet... The problem is, how to get it to display while snooping... Would need to have some fake display code somewhere.

[Timmmdavis]

Ok, cool, if you get it working it would be good to know.

Tim

[piever]

This feels almost fully functional! Playing with it, I noticed two more features that are missing here but work well in GLMakie:

• mouse_selection always returns nothing, even when being on a plot
• linewidth attribute is ignored in line plots

[yijiangh]

I'm trying the Blink option above , but body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene)); tells me that WGLMakie.three_scene is undefined. Would you mind pointing me to the latest way to do this? Thanks!

[Ouam74]

Hi, i have the same problem, i cannot render a Makie plot into Blink using : body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene)). I get following message : "LoadError: UndefVarError: three_scene not defined"

Could you please help?

Thank you in advance !

[schneiderfelipe]

I'm trying the Blink option above , but body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene)); tells me that WGLMakie.three_scene is undefined. Would you mind pointing me to the latest way to do this? Thanks!

I am also having this issue:

julia> body!(w, WGLMakie.three_scene(scene))
ERROR: UndefVarError: three_scene not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./Base.jl:26
 [2] top-level scope at REPL[103]:1

[SimonDanisch]

This works pretty well by now:

using Blink
s = scatter(1:4)
w = Window()
body!(w, s)

Only problem: the resolution isn't really synced, so it comes out as too big!

[yijiangh]

@SimonDanisch Thanks! Just complementing your code snippet to make it an MWE:

using Blink, AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie
s = scatter(1:4)
w = Window()
body!(w, s)

Package info:

(@v1.5) pkg> st Makie
  [ee78f7c6] Makie v0.11.1

(@v1.5) pkg> st WGLMakie
  [276b4fcb] WGLMakie v0.2.9

(@v1.5) pkg> st Blink
  [ad839575] Blink v0.12.3

(@v1.5) pkg> st AbstractPlotting
  [537997a7] AbstractPlotting v0.12.15