On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:42:04PM -0500, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Vadim Zeitlin <vz-plp...@zeitlins.org> wrote: > > The first of these things is the display of so-called candlestick graphs: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_chart > > > > This genuinely doesn't seem to be supported as it was requested before: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00650.html > > http://www.mail-archive.com/plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00699.html > > > > but nothing seems to have happened since then. So the question here is > > mostly how realistic would it be for someone knowing nothing about plplot > > internals to implement support for this new graph kind, either inside or > > outside of plplot itself and if the project maintainers would be interested > > in adding support for candlestick plots to plplot itself (which will give > > me the excuse for asking many more questions) and, generally speaking, if > > anybody has any advice about implementing this. > > I think this should be relatively straightforward to produce. PLplot > provides enough low-level plotting functions that it should be fairly > straightforward to implement. For a start, you could look at this > submitted boxplot example: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2166164&group_id=2915&atid=302915
Since we've now had two requests for this, shall I go ahead and commit this example to svn? At least we show how plplot can be used for financial plotting. If someone comes up with a new API routine for handling this then we can always update the example to use it. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
