On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:31:00PM -0500, SiliconZealot wrote:
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> > Sample output from my node is at:
> >
> > http://www.netmud.com/freenet/PerMinute.htm
> >
> > -glenn
> 
> Very nice, I would love to see this kind of thing integrated into Fred. :)
> Graphs are much easier on the eyes  :p

Gnuplot makes graphs like that and much better, and it is easily
scriptable. I'm not to fond of gnuplot because of the license (and
because the name makes you think it is a GNU program, when it isn't even
GPLed), but it is a darn nice program.

Integration of plotting into Fred is a different story though. Getting,
or coding, a plotting class in java is probably completely managable,
but there are real issues with doing graphics in java daemons. Firstly
the graphics stuff has changed a lot between 1.1 and 1.2 (and Kaffe has
only 1.1 support in it's AWT library), and most libraries you'll find
assume 1.2. Also, I found that the IBM JVM on Linux (our prefered
platform) will actually crash if you try to instantiate
java.awt.Graphics or java.awt.Image classes if there is no X11 monitor
present (even if there are no windows created). If somebody has any
ideas, I'm all ears, but given the complication I don't think automatic
plotting is worth it.

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Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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