Re: Generating graphs from Oracle data?

Jim Swanson <jxs_at_stevensons.co.nz> writes:

>We use Oracle 7.1 with Webserver 2.1 on SPARC Solaris and have, after
>trialling a number of products, settled on using a Java-based product
>called NetCharts for our web-based reporting system.
 

>You can check out their website at http://www.netcharts.com/ and
>download a demo copy.

Two problems. Its Java only. I try to avoid putting Java applets in html pages whenever I can. It really slows things down needlessly. I am hoping to find a solution that generates GIF or some such images on the fly.

It costs too much!

I was hoping to use something like the freely available gd GIF Library. I revisited their page and it looks like it has matured well enough since I last looked at it. Guess thats what I am going to use.

Checkout : http://www.boutell.com/tools.html

gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file. This is particularly useful in World-Wide Web applications, where .GIF is the format used for inline images.

Atif Khan
aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu Received on Mon May 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT