ScottPlot 4 depends on the System.Drawing.Common package to render plots. This has special considerations for modern .NET projects depending on which operating system is being targeted.
Windows
Applications targeting .NET 6 and newer may produce the following message:
Warning CA1416 This call site is reachable on all platforms.
'FormsPlot.Plot' is only supported on: 'Windows' 7.0 and later.
To fix this warning: edit your .csproj file to target .net6.0-windows
Linux & MacOS
Non-Windows users must take the following steps to enable System.Drawing.Common rendering support:
Step 1: Install libgdiplus
Linux:
apt-get install -y libgdiplus
MacOS:
brew install mono-libgdiplus
Step 2: Manually add the System.Drawing.Common
package to your project:
dotnet add package System.Drawing.Common
Step 3: Follow Microsoft’s recommended action and edit runtimeconfig.json
to EnableUnixSupport
.
ScottPlot 5
ScottPlot 5 is not yet released, but it is expected to release before .NET 7 in November, 2022.
ScottPlot 5 does not depend on
System.Drawing.Common
, so the concerns above concerns do not apply.The rendering technology underlying ScottPlot 5 is still not fully decided. See the ScottPlot Roadmap for details.