Stacked barcharts?

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net (Robert Graham Merkel)
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:14:22 +1100


Bill Gribble writes:
 > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:59:21AM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
 > > Guppi supports them (though I'm not sure whether guppitank does), but
 > > it doesn't seem like we do.
 > > 
 > > I was thinking that they'd be a kind of useful way to present
 > > income/expense data (ie each slice of the bar representing a different
 > > expense account).  What do you think?
 > 
 > This sort-of works now (bar-chart data has rows and columns, with each
 > column's bars being a unique color), though the bars aren't drawn 3-d
 > stacked.  How does guppi's stacked bar chart work differently from
 > what we have now?
 > 

A stacked bar is just that - the individual bars for each data series
are "stacked" on top of each other.  Have a look at some of the guppi
screenshots on the guppi home page for the difference.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

<telsa> I left my client on #gtk+ overnight and there was nothing 
in scrollback at all except quit/rejoins.
<bighead> telsa: well its been that for, I think 3 days now 
(ever since started coming back on IRC)
<telsa> Clearly they are busy implementing telepathy, 
and dog-fooding it. :) 
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