Maybe SVG is a suitable target/intermediate format. IIRC cairo (and thus probably gtk2hs) can render it.
On 12/20/05, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Gerbrand van Dieijen wrote: > > I plan to develop a library in Haskell to draw charts, such as pie > > charts, bar charts and line charts, to visualize data. Functionality > > will be similar to gnuplot, or chart libraries that already exist for > > other languages. The chart library is for (part of) my master-thesis > > project and it is still in its planning phase. > > > > There are several graphic-libraries for Haskell, but I couldn't find any > > specifically for drawing charts. To avoid that I am reinventing the > > wheel, does anyone know of such a library that is already developed or > > being developed? > > Not that I know of. I would say, though, that if you write a charting > library, it would be great to separate the display from the layout as much > as possible, so that different backends could be plugged in. Not as much > as gnuplot, but enough that it would be easy to support different gui > libraries, or direct postscript output. I'd definitely like to have such a > module available. > -- > David Roundy > http://www.darcs.net > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell