simple bar chart module

[joe]

Hello does anyone know of any simple bar chart module without GD. I
would use GD but it look like I have to compile a few things to get it
working. So i am trying to find something easy like text graph module.
Any ideas?

 

[smallpond]

Hello does anyone know of any simple bar chart module without GD. I
would use GD but it look like I have to compile a few things to get it
working. So i am trying to find something easy like text graph module.
Any ideas?

I haven't tried it, but Tk::Graph looks to be pure perl.
--S

 

[Ben Morrow]

I haven't tried it, but Tk::Graph looks to be pure perl.

Well, yes, but it depends on Tk, which isn't.

To the OP: what do you actually want? As in, what sort of output do you
want? If you want an image, you're unlikely to find a non-XS module that
will help; similarly if you want your program to open a window. If
you're happy with a textual output format like SVG, then there's
SVG::TT::Graph.

Ben

 

[Ted Zlatanov]

BM> Well, yes, but it depends on Tk, which isn't.

BM> To the OP: what do you actually want? As in, what sort of output do you
BM> want? If you want an image, you're unlikely to find a non-XS module that
BM> will help; similarly if you want your program to open a window. If
BM> you're happy with a textual output format like SVG, then there's
BM> SVG::TT::Graph.

Google has recently released a Charts API, and there's even a
Google::Chart module on CPAN (although it's not yet fully functional).
So that's a non-XS method that's pretty fast if you can get to the
Google servers and produces nice PNG images...

Ted

 

[Peter Scott]

BM> Quoth smallpond <[email protected]>:
BM> To the OP: what do you actually want? As in, what sort of output do you
BM> want? If you want an image, you're unlikely to find a non-XS module that
BM> will help; similarly if you want your program to open a window. If
BM> you're happy with a textual output format like SVG, then there's
BM> SVG::TT::Graph.

Google has recently released a Charts API, and there's even a
Google::Chart module on CPAN (although it's not yet fully functional).
So that's a non-XS method that's pretty fast if you can get to the
Google servers and produces nice PNG images...

And if Flash is okay there is the sexy Open Flash Chart:
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Chart-OFC-0.02/lib/Chart/OFC.pm

Also pure Perl. Unfortunately, it depends on MooseX::Types, which depends
on Class::MOP, which has a small piece of XS. But the OP didn't rule out
compilation altogether, was more objecting to building things outside of
Perl modules.

 

[LemonHall]

And if Flash is okay there is the sexy Open Flash Chart:
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Chart-OFC-0.02/lib/Chart/OFC.pm

Also pure Perl. Unfortunately, it depends on MooseX::Types, which depends
on Class::MOP, which has a small piece of XS. But the OP didn't rule out
compilation altogether, was more objecting to building things outside of
Perl modules.

Thanks a lot, "Open Flash Chart", this module can display chinese...I
love it.