From: Patrick Lynch <lynchnco@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T19:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: CanvasPlot, createPlotAxis and createLinePlot.

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
> 
> It seems that the package is constructed with standard canvas items 
> only.
> Why don't you translate it to Ruby/Tk? ;-)
> Anyway, translation is not so difficult, if you can read the Perl 
> source.
> For example,
> ----<Perl/Tk>--------------------------------------------------
>   if ($y_axis) {
>      $self->createText(
>         $x1-$tl, $y2-$x, -text => $l,
>         %args, -fill => $tcolor,
>         -font => $lfont, -anchor => $an,
>      );
>   } else {
>      $self->createText(
>          $x+$x1, $y1+$tl, -text => $l,
>          %args, -fill => $tcolor,
>          -font => $tfont, -anchor => $an,
>     );
>   }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> ----<Ruby/Tk>--------------------------------------------------
>   if (y_axis) {
>      TkcText.new(self, x1-tl, y2-x,
>                  args.merge(:text=>l, :fill=>tcolor,
>                             :font=>lfont, :anchor=>an)
>                 )
>   } else {
>      TkcText.new(self, x+x1, y1+tl,
>                  args.merge(:text=>l, :fill=>tcolor,
>                             :font=>tfont, :anchor=>an)
>                 )
>   }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> However, if you want to create beautiful graphs,
> I recommend you to use BLT ( or Tcllib(Tklib) ) extension.
> Current Ruby/Tk has a binding for BLT ( and Tcllib(Tklib) ).

Hidetoshi,
Thank you, I shall try both techniques...
I'm developing a Quality Assurance Metrics package...so I will need do
do some beautiful graphs...
When its done, I will dedicate the graphics portion to you.
Ciao,
Pat

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