Origin and Windows Plotting

From: B Szymanik <Bohdan.Szymanik.,at,.vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Origin and Windows Plotting
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 11:43:51 +1200

 I've noted the conversation on windows plotting packages and thought I
 could add something useful. I was talking to Microcal about the
 problems of modelling backgrounds and peaks in spectroscopic data and
 they said they've got a new module for integrated peak and background
 fitting due to be released about now. With a new copy of Origin you
 get the peak/bkgd fitting module for some special discount.
 We're just going to stick with the ordinary copy of Origin. You can
 write extensions to the package in a script language called LabTalk that's
 kinda like an interpreted C (?). You can also interface external
 precompiled routines as .dll 's. I've certainly used data sets of up to
 15,000 but not so far to 100k. I've found it not to difficult to expand
 on the original package. You can add windows buttons and menu items as well.
 -Bohdan Szymanik
 Victoria University/Industrial Research Ltd
 Wellington, New Zealand