Re: Movable line via mouse

I solved something like this in a very stupid-simple way: I wanted to get stats on bandwidth usage, and hadn't discovered MRTG yet. So, I wrote a cron job to query the ifconfig command's output, save to a file. Then, a PHP parser that turned the data into a simple graph based on colored 1x1 px images stretched to fit width/height in HTML and displayed in a table. A "poor-man"s graphing tool; it was (is!) very effective. -Ben On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:12, Tabber Watts wrote: > I in now way need/require anyone to completely solve this issue butneed ideas on how this might be accomplished. > Situation:I have data on six different sites, and each collect data period has a+/- 30 minute skew for each site. I need to allow users to see thesedata collection periods for a given day and select when they want tolook at data for all six sites. > I can solve this problem without using graphics and just displayingtext times and having the user enter in the times manually but I wouldlike todo it with graphics. > My idea:Generate a timeline in a window, with the sites listed on the leftside of the window. Then there will be two vertical lines that a usercould click on and drag to the appropriate times they want to startand stop looking at the data. > What I know I can do:Generation of the window with the full timeline and placement of datalines for each site in a GtkLayout. > What I don't know how to do:Clicking and dragging of the line. The closest thing I could find tothis functionally is the colorselector.php demo usingGtkColorSelectionDialog. > Any help or pointing in the right direction would be helpfull. > Mahalo,Tabber Watts > > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978