On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Malka Cymbalista wrote: >> >> We are running perl 5.8.5 on a Linux machine that is running apache 2.2.6 >> with mod_perl 2.0.3. Our data is in a MySQL database (MySQL 5.0.45) >> >> We have been asked to write a web application that requires plotting >> capabilities. We do most of our web programming in perl so I am looking for >> a perl module that has the following features: >> >> 1. ability to create histograms >> 2. ability to create x,y plots >> 3. ability to zoom in on a portion of the graph >> 4. ability to calculate the distance between 2 points on the graph >> 5. ability to hover on a point and bring up some text
Take a look into: http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Graphics Regards >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for which perl modules we should look into? > > Creating graphics is very different from writing a GUI or CGI application that > lets you manipulate those graphics. > > For the graphics, take a look at GD here > > http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.39/GD.pm > > For Web applications, look at CGI, which is a standard library and doesn't > need > to be installed separately. But remember that if you have never done Web > programming before you have a huge amount of learning to do (you will need to > know HMTL and, ideally, CSS and JavaScript), and in addition your application > is > non-trivial. Allow several months. > > If you would like to try it as a stand alone GUI application then you will > find > Gtk, Gtk2 and Wx (my preference) of use. > > Now having written that I see you have also posted to two other groups and I > have wasted my time. Please don't do this again. > > Rob > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Francisco Valladolid H. -- http://bsdguy.net - Jesus Christ follower. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
