Mike, I replied a couple of days ago to say I'd solved the problem but
it has not appeared, despite being told that the post was successful.
Assuming that it's lost, here's a brief summary;
Delved into LWP as you recommended and strung together some code that
used the 'head' and 'getstore' method
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, bacoms wrote:
> Mike, First of all many thanks for the detailed reply. I thought I
> understood what you were saying but, having changed my code
> accordingly, I'm not so sure.
You are welcome. It looks like you understood things pretty well.
>
> If I understand y
Mike, First of all many thanks for the detailed reply. I thought I
understood what you were saying but, having changed my code
accordingly, I'm not so sure.
If I understand you right, to embed a graph on my HTML page I need to
create it outside the HTML with Content-type: image/png\n\n. This is
ac
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, bacoms wrote:
> I've got a web page that includes a graph. I achieve this with code
> that looks like:
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> etc
> etc
> my($myImage) = $myChart->plot(\...@data) or die
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, bacoms wrote:
> Is it possible to eliminate the need to first write the image to
> disk?
Yes, it is possible and desirable. Writing the images to disk creates
a lot of complications. You have to generate some random temporary
name to avoid having train wrecks. I
I've got a web page that includes a graph. I achieve this with code
that looks like:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
etc
etc
my($myImage) = $myChart->plot(\...@data) or die $myChart->error;
open(IMAGE, ">Images/zzzgraph.png
