[jifty-devel] Chart plugin: Handling scripts in regions

[Thomas Sibley]

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
> After you mentioned ruby graphing ealier I looked up Gruff. It looks 
> like every other Ruby thing. ;) It would appear that GD is also capable 
> of anti-aliasing, but because of the way part of GD::Graph (pie charts 
> in particular) are written Bad Stuff happens when you try to use 
> anti-aliasing and true color graphs---I just tinkered to see what would 
> happen. Since pie's are drawn lazily ( i.e., draw the outlines and then 
> fill them) rather than properly drawing the slices and then adding the 
> lines afterward, the fill floods the whole image.
> 
> I might think about this one. It could be fun. It's been a few years 
> since I tinkered much with graphics on a lower level. Of course, as I'm 
> typing this I'm thinking I must be crazy. As if I have the time... ;)

It'd be great if you worked on this.  :)  In any case, you might find

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-perlgdchart/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Perl-GD-Charts

interesting.