It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: > In other news, the upstream plotutils maintainer made the change I > requested to support swig. Now theoretically, I could start working > on the graphing stuff again. However, with all this talk of > HTML/SGML/XML reports, I'm wondering what the right approach is. I > chose plotutils because it has *really* broad support for postscript, > plotters, xfig, etc, and it can render to a file, to an Xwindow, to an > Xdrawable, etc. But I'm not sure how this would fit in with the > current "repoorts" work. If we're using XmHTML, it seems like we > might want to consider rendering to a .png or something (with alpha > channels we could even overlay graphs with transparency -- is that > useful?) and drop the images onto the "report". Either way. I beleive/assume that XmHTML has the ability to imbed an arbitrary window inside it (e.g. to display output of a java applet). Maybe I'm confused, but I think <APPLET WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=400> </APPLET> reserves a chunk of X-drawable real-estate. Then you can cram anything in there. So, for instance, I can embed, say the register thingy inside the html, and you can manipulate away, as it were a java applet, except that of course its not. Likewise, you should be able to use plotutils to draw into that area. I have not explored this, but I thought I saw it scroll by in the XmHTML documentation. BTW, gtk_html is just a port of XmHTML, so I think we're covered in terms of function. Is there any relationship between plotutils and gnuplot? gnuplot is ... well it gets the job done, has zillions of output devices, but its not very flashy in terms of glitz. --linas ----- %< -------------------------------------------- >% ------ The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe gnucash-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the body
