Chris Burke wrote:
|The Grid package is a class that supports drawing a grid on a form.
|The grid verb is a cover function that uses this to draw simple grids.
|Many more simple cover functions could be written, including one to
|support your own preferred style.
|I suggest you start by looking at the options in the Grid package,
|http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Grid/Options . Does one of these do what
|you want? If so, can it be set in grid? If not, can you describe or
|program exactly what is needed?
I looked at Grid|Options many times, trying to figure out what settings
might be needed to do what I wanted. However, it seems that grid has
certain minimums it absolutely will not exceed. So, even though grid is
an interesting (and, in some cases, usable) solution to my need, I don't
think it's the correct one. To see what I'm looking for, do this:
load 'grid'
grid <"0 (50,125) $ ' '
This displays an array of empty cells as a grid. However, these cells
are too large for what I'd like. I'd far prefer that the cells (and
font) were 1/4 this size (that is, 4 cells would fit in the space of
one)--this would be equivalent to zooming out by a factor of two. Since
grid seems unable to do this, it apparently is not the correct tool for
what I'm trying to do.
What I'd like is a grid-like image that can be resized like plot can
(stretched, squeezed, dragged around, etc.) and which can display a
whole lot of data like plot can, only the array data is displayed as
(small/tiny) characters within a visible grid structure, preferably with
zoom in/out capabilities. Some of the examples on the following web
page illustrate what I'm talking about (see my Dec 23 post for two
additional web sites):
http://www.investorsintelligence.com/x/using_point_and_figure_charts.htm
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Hope this helps clarify a bit more what I'd like to see. Thanks!
Harvey
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