Some may remember that Jake Voytko worked on a SVG graphic plotting package during a 2007 GSoC - dubbed Boost.Plot. In July 2009, I announced that this was available for people to 'try out' - it seems in a usable condition. Although several people made some kind remarks about it, I sensed that the 'killer' feature was using SVG SVG was *NOT supported 'out-of-the-box'* by Microsoft IE (including 8, to my surprise, and disappointment). It now seems that Microsoft have 'seen' the light' and promise that IE 9 will provide good and portable support for SVG. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/18/svg-in-ie9-roadmap.aspx They have finally realised the 'small is beautiful' applies to graphics - especially now that many are being displayed on phones with limited speed links. SVG graphics need a tiny amount of code, especially when compressed, and can be expanded without 'going all pixelly'. Boost.Plot is special in that it is in C++ and it has a Boost license. It allows you to add just a few lines of code to the end of your C++ program to take data from any STL container (all or part) and produce a plot as a Scale Vector Graph (.svg) file. So it is already suited to sending near real-time plots to phones. BUT while Boost.Plot provides zillions of functions to TechniColor your XY plots, it doesn't do much to help produce other displays - even things as simple as pie charts. And the underlying SVG interface functions are perhaps rudimentary. So I wonder if there is any enthusiasm for a Google Summer of Code project for NEXT summer 2011 to get this into a reviewable state? (Sadly I think we have just missed GSoC for this year). Paul PS A few demo plots are attached for your amusement. The latest version is available on SVN https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/SOC/2007/visualization/ Docs are available to build as html and pre-built as pdf (patience - 6 Mbyte!) https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/SOC/2007/visualization/libs/svg_plot /doc/pdf/svg_plot.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/coqlbg (or ask if you want zips instead). --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal, UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830, mobile +44 7714330204 pbristow@hetp.u-net.com