Tonight I added a Color class and setup Chart::Decoration::Marker to use it. I also added a color to the Decoration::Grid so that the Markers it generates can have a special color.

chart-0.0.4 - The examples have been updated, but little is different.

This raises an interesting problem for me. Chart is beginning to be broken into more finite pieces and I find myself wanting objects that represent them. Java has spoiled me into having all kinds of little classes I could use here, such as Insets, Rectangle or Color. I think that the average Perl hacker sees no utility in creating a Rectangle class and putting it on CPAN, but some of us prefer not to have to reimplement these ideas over and over. I’m not sure if I have enough to offer by splitting some of these into separate packages. Time will tell.

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Posted at : April 18th, 2006 - 11:26 pm
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