Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray 
from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
A VB module for MS Office?

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Daniel Matthews wrote:
> 
> Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray
> from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
> A VB module for MS Office?

I am aware of most POV-Ray related utilities and macros but there are no utilities
or macros like this available that I am aware of.

Sorry,

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On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:37:48 +1100, Daniel Matthews <dan#@3-e.net>
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>Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray 
>from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
>A VB module for MS Office?

If you do a s/\n/,/g so that it really *is* a comma-separated list (as
opposed to comma-and-newlines-separated), you can use - guess what -
POV-Ray :)

Yep. POV-Ray's file I/O functions read CSV perfectly fine, IEEE floats
included, provided that you don't rely on white space to separate your
values (because it won't).


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I wrote such a VB program, but it is not suitable to share.
Many, many bugs and features to fix. Also wrote one to
work specifically within SPSS, the objective being to produce
3-D (stereoscopic) bar and scatter plots. I don't have time
or the programming skills to work on it.

Harolddd

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> Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray
> from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
> A VB module for MS Office?
>
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Peter Popov wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:37:48 +1100, Daniel Matthews <dan#@3-e.net>
> wrote:
> 
>>Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray
>>from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
>>A VB module for MS Office?
> 
> If you do a s/\n/,/g so that it really *is* a comma-separated list (as
> opposed to comma-and-newlines-separated), you can use - guess what -
> POV-Ray :)
> 
> Yep. POV-Ray's file I/O functions read CSV perfectly fine, IEEE floats
> included, provided that you don't rely on white space to separate your
> values (because it won't).
> 
> 
> Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
> Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
> TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

Thanks for the info Peter, I guess writing the code in POV would make it 
more portable too. :o)
If I write anything such as a graphing macro, that has no external 
dependencies, I will post it on this server.

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OK, I will send you any useful code I find or write.
Hmmm, perhaps I should write an add-on to Open Office rather than MS Office?

Harold Baize wrote:

> 
> I wrote such a VB program, but it is not suitable to share.
> Many, many bugs and features to fix. Also wrote one to
> work specifically within SPSS, the objective being to produce
> 3-D (stereoscopic) bar and scatter plots. I don't have time
> or the programming skills to work on it.
> 
> Harolddd
> 
> "Daniel Matthews" <dan#@3-e.net> wrote in message
> news:110### [at] 3-enet...
>> Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in povray
>> from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
>> A VB module for MS Office?
>>
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>> Operator error
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"Daniel Matthews" <dan#@3-e.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the info Peter, I guess writing the code in POV would make it
> more portable too. :o)
> If I write anything such as a graphing macro, that has no external
> dependencies, I will post it on this server.
>

I've once used pov for graphing - iirc it was something pov could do very
easily (or at least visibly) that was beyond excel.

One not necesserily obvious top-tip is that, even though pov reads lines, it
doesn't interpret EOL as a delimiter (iirc).

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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:49:34 -0000, "Tom & Lu Melly"
<all### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:

>One not necesserily obvious top-tip is that, even though pov reads lines, it
>doesn't interpret EOL as a delimiter (iirc).

Thought I mentioned that already :)
But hey, you can always patch it to suit your needs <grin>


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Given that povray is the only programming language I'm fluent in, I've
considered using it for processing of some txt files.

I have successfully written SDL that writes a big array to a file and then
another one that reads it.  But here the file that is opened is pure povray
SDL-- it's probably just like an "include" command.

Two questions:
1) Could someone write a file that reads a txt and knows what to do with it?
Exactly how does pov perceive a line of code in an opened txt file?  Or is
it seen as one big string variable or what?

2)  Is the "fileio" subdirectory **supposed** to be empty??

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I'm in the middle of changing jobs and moving right now, but
after I've settled I'll send you what I have. I'm not a good
programmer but it might give you a pointer or two for something
better.

Harold

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> OK, I will send you any useful code I find or write.
> Hmmm, perhaps I should write an add-on to Open Office rather than MS
Office?
>
> Harold Baize wrote:
>
> >
> > I wrote such a VB program, but it is not suitable to share.
> > Many, many bugs and features to fix. Also wrote one to
> > work specifically within SPSS, the objective being to produce
> > 3-D (stereoscopic) bar and scatter plots. I don't have time
> > or the programming skills to work on it.
> >
> > Harolddd
> >
> > "Daniel Matthews" <dan#@3-e.net> wrote in message
> > news:110### [at] 3-enet...
> >> Is there a utility or macro set for building charts and graphs in
povray
> >> from datasets (SQL) or comma delimited files?
> >> A VB module for MS Office?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Your connection failed because: YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent
> >> Operator error
> >>
>
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