There use to be i-no chart module, but I just to look for it, and could not find it (I 
didn't look too hard). Anyways, it was an aolserver module for generating graphs on 
the fly that wrapped the gd lib. I am not sure if it could do generic graphics, 
though...

--brett


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:36:43 -0400
Dossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sanju,
>
> You seem to be exploring netpbm and you're aware of gd, but have
> you explored gd?
>
> You should consider gdtclft.  Check http://www.graphviz.org/ for
> it.  In particular:
>
> |  From: http://www.graphviz.org/cgi-bin/man?gdtclft
> |
> |  Thomas Boutell's Gd package provides a convenient way to generate
> |  bitmap images with a C program. If you, like me, prefer Tcl for CGI
> |  applications, you'll want my TCL GD extension. You can get it by
> |  anonymous FTP from ftp://guraldi.hgp.med.umich.edu/pub/gdtcl.shar.
>
> I'm not sure if it's trivially easy to use gdtclft under AOLserver,
> but I can't imagine it being too difficult.
>
> -- Dossy
>
>
> On 2001.10.22, Sanjivendra Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm aware of two graphic tcl packages that one can choose from,
> >
> > pbm/netpbm and/or gd,
> >
> > to generate image files based upon numerical data for later consumption in a
> > web application.
> >
> > These can be adapted for AOLserver modules "easily" (though the current
> > segmentation violation is causing some grief :-().
> >
> > A third is to use tk with tk plugin for Netscape and IE browsers.
> >
> > Are there any other tcl-based options that should be considered?  (my other
> > option is to switch to java which has a package that supplies rudimentatry
> > classes and methods to do this, and there are commercial java packages also
> > available, and then to use http to call these routines).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sanju.
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
>   "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>     folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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