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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics,sci.math.stat
Subject: Graphics packages for Turbo Pascal
Summary: How to do statistical graphics in Turbo Pascal?
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Date: 18 Oct 89 19:03:15 GMT
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I'm looking for a graphics package to use with Turbo Pascal, mainly to be
used for statistical/scientific graphics.  I'd like to be able to display
scatterplots, draw lines on them and that sort of thing (more or less
what S can do), as well as have some kind of mouse support so that
I can do some interactive selection of data points.  It would be nice
if it used the new object oriented extensions so that I could specialize
plots without lots of trouble, but that's not really necessary.  It should
use the BGI routines for output so I can run it on different monitors.

The only one I have experience with is Borland's Graphix Toolbox, which
doesn't use the BGI (!!) and has no mouse support, but otherwise looks
like a slightly low-level version of what I want.  I haven't used it 
enough to know if there are any other big problems; I know a version
to use the BGI exists on Compuserve, but is reportedly incomplete.

Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with any other package?
I'd be interested in PD, shareware or commercial products.

Please reply by mail; if there is sufficient interest, I'll post a summary
of what I receive.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu  (Internet)
dmurdoch@watdcsu.uwaterloo.ca  (Bitnet)