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<DIV>Do you have an example of a script that can produce a chart of open, high, low, close data? i have searched for some time through cpan and google with no luck. i have found Finance::Shares but it seems to be overkill and very difficult to figure out. it also creates postscript files.</DIV>
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<DIV>i am at the point that i am considering building my own. any pointers towards doing this as in modules to start with?</DIV>
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<DIV>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:21:00PM -0800, matt boex wrote:<BR>><I> any opinion as to what modules i should use to build stock charts with. <BR></I>><I> i am looking to build open, high, low, close, with possibly volume at the </I>><I> bottom.<BR></I><BR>I've had good success with GD::Graph [1] at a previous job, and at my current<BR>job we've used Chart [2], which has a somewhat cleaner look. Unfortunately<BR>(as of 3 months ago) GD::Graph appeared to be more actively maintained than<BR>Chart, since we submitted a patch for some legend placement options, and <BR>never heard back. Also GD::Graph has better support for TrueType fonts. <BR>While it's name doesn't reflect it, Chart uses GD just as GD::Graph does, <BR>but in a perhaps more elegant way. Chart comes with some very nice PDF<BR>documentation however, which is pretty useful for this sort of module.<BR><BR>//Ed<BR><BR>[1] <A href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?GD::Graph"
target=_blank>http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?GD::Graph</A><BR>[2] <A href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Chart" target=_blank>http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Chart</A><BR><BR><BR><B><I>Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:21:00PM -0800, matt boex wrote:<BR>> any opinion as to what modules i should use to build stock charts with. <BR>> i am looking to build open, high, low, close, with possibly volume at the <BR>> bottom.<BR><BR>I've had good success with GD::Graph [1] at a previous job, and at my current<BR>job we've used Chart [2], which has a somewhat cleaner look. Unfortunately<BR>(as of 3 months ago) GD::Graph appeared to be more actively maintained than<BR>Chart, since we submitted a patch for some legend placement options, and <BR>never heard back. Also GD::Graph has better support for TrueType fonts. <BR>While it's name doesn't reflect it, Chart uses GD just as GD::Graph does, <BR>but in a perhaps more elegant way. Chart comes with some very nice PDF<BR>documentation however, which is pretty useful for this sort of module.<BR><BR>//Ed<BR><BR>[1]
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