Chart::GRACE 0.95

Chart::GRACE is a Perl object for displaying data via Xmgrace.

SYNOPSIS

use Chart::GRACE;

xmgrace($a, { SYMBOL => plus};

use Chart::GRACE ();

$grace = new Chart::GRACE;
$grace->plot($pdl);

xmgrace($pdl, { LINESTYLE => dotted });

Provides a perl/PDL interface to the XMGR plotting package. Can be used to plot PDLs or Perl arrays.

A simple function interface is provided that is based on the more complete object-oriented interface.

The interface can be implemented using either anonymous pipes or named pipes (governed by the module variable Chart::GRACE::NPIPE). If named pipes are used ($NPIPE = 1) XMGR can be controlled via the pipe and buttons are available for use in XMGR. If an anonymous pipe is used XMGR will not accept button events until the pipe has been closed.

Currently the named pipe option can not support data sets containing 3 or more columns (I have not worked out how to do it anyway!). This means that only TYPE XY is supported. For anonymouse pipe 3 or more columns can be supplied along with the graph type.

The default option is to use the named pipe.