Jim
Many thanks and much appreciated. Not good news about your wife's illness, I trust it worked out OK in the end?
I looked at veusz with a view to doing it myself but it looks like a bugger to learn.
Yes, the situation eventually became much better. But - to be brief - only after more than five years of hell-on-earth. Mutiple sucide attempts, out-of-reality experiences, a stroke caused my medication, etc, etc. The medics kept assuming it was all her 'epilepsy' and us 'arguing'. More than one suicide attempt (*very* real, not for show) was after being mistreated by medics.
e.g. the one who came when she was begging for help with her 'thoughts' and told her to go ahead and kill herself if she wanted to. Then turned to me and told be to go out and let her. They simply would not listen to what either of us said. And this GP had actually never seen her before!
The GP marched out, she went upstairs and took all the pills she had of every kind. She didn't tell me, so I only realised half-an-hour later that her having a 'rest' was another attempt. 999... fortunately saved again. In some ways this was a lesser example of what happened. Other attempts weren't limited to pills. And when I wasn't at home.
After a few years of this I decided to DIY my own medical research and quickly realised that she actually had acute Bipolar (Manic Depression). But it then took another suicide attempt and trip to A&E to get *any* medic to agree. i.e. another long period of being mistreated by medics who simply couldn't be bothered to listen.
FWIW I'm writing the biog so I can detail this and let others know in similar situations that you *can* get though it, and not to be destroyed by incompetent / arrogant / lazy medics who just work on "bugger off and try this pill". I dread to think how many people with serious mental illnesses are driven over the edge by lazy careless medics and dispair.
Rant ended.
I found the best way to get what's wanted with Veusz is to give it some data, twiddle the display to be as you want, then save a veusz file and have a look at it with a file editor. That lets me work out what headers and format to use when generating a file that veusz will understand and show as wanted.
If you look at some of my other rox apps you can see they contain header files for this. I then write the data payload under them in the required format. Suck-and-see.