I am using plotkit - http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/ which uses html canvas - so its dependant on the browser being capable, but otherwise offloads the graph creation rather nicely.
i probably should make a Catalyst wrapper for it :) Cheers Sven -- Professional Wiki Innovation and Support Sven Dowideit - http://DistributedINFORMATION.com A WikiRing Partner http://wikiring.com On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:22 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > I have an existing application which I want to add some basic data > graphing operations to. > > The existing code is all fairly basic CRUD like (actually its mainly > R since the CUD is done mostly externally), with a TT view and > DBIx::Class model. > > The graphs wanted are of data storage volumes for multiple items over > a period - so either lines, or stacked lines, with several > (potentially 10s) of lines. > > My initial inclination would be to have a wrapper URL which generates > pretty much a HTML frame and a IMG tag in it pointing to another cat > URL (with the same parameters passed as to the wrapper) which > generates data into a View based on Chart::Lines. > > This means I do most of the DB queries twice (ie once in the wrapper > invocation, and again in the image generation), which appears messy. > > I'd love some suggestions as to good alternative methods - I do have > sessions set up, but dumping the graph (or data for it) into the > session store seems a little bizarre. I have seen a java graphing > applet which would allow me to just generate it in one go with the > graph data done as params within the applet call (the applet did not > appear to be very sophisticated unfortunately). > > Nigel. > -- > [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
