On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:35:18AM -0500, Geoff Rowell wrote: > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > > I've got a project coming up that's going to need me to make graphs. > > I > > do not yet know what kind of graph (dot, line, bar, etc.). But I am told > > that it needs to be pretty (and probably with multiple colors). The data > > needing to be displayed will be anywhere from 5 points, to many thousands > > of > > points. There will be some times where I will need to have multiple > > datasets (separated by color) set on the same graph, one over the next. > > I was thinking of a brute-force way of doing this with associative > > arrays. But I was wondering if you all had any better suggestions. Are > > there any good, friendly, tested modules for this sort of thing? Is this > > a > > time for Perl tk? Would this be better off in Java? > > > I usually create data files and shell out to GnuPlot.
That's also what I do for one of my projects. I tried GD::Graph and Chart::Graph::Gnuplot and wasn't happy with either. GD::Graph only allows you to graph two datasets when using two y axes. Chart::Graph::Gnuplot, which is a wrapper around gnuplot, has an unwieldy interface and makes it difficult to use some features of gnuplot. Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
