Designing chart drawing software

Question

I am designing software that needs to draw several different kinds of charts--bar charts, pie charts, flow charts/graphs, charts over time. I am looking for resources related to both the programming side of the issue as well as the UI/display side. Books, online resources would all be helpful. Thanks.

Answer 1

It does depend on the language a bit: here may be some pointers for you. Hope they help:

code.google.com/apis/chart/

home.gna.org/pychart

Practical C# Charts and Graphics

The Excel library can be imported by the Office API, but it does require you to have Excel installed.

Gnuplot

The grammar of graphics: book from the guy that wrote the plotting lib of spss. Somewhat theoretical, but nice xml treatment... gives you the graph xml schema for spss.

But I'm sure there are quite a few others that other people will know.