[drraw-users] drraw 2.2a1 released --- Testers WANTED!

[Christophe Kalt]

On Jul 13, David Nolan wrote:
| On 7/12/06, Christophe Kalt <kalt at taranis.org> wrote:
| >  + Deprecated use of HRULE, STACK and old style GPRINT graph command.
| 
| Are you supporting the newer mechanism for generating stacked graphs?
| Do existing graphs using these get converted to the new format?   I
| use stacking extensively...

I wanted to keep the annoucement e-mail short, but as you
noted, this is worth some extra attention.  I tried to make
everything as safe as possible.  So,

(1) the newer stacking mechanism is supported
(2) existing graphs are not automatically converted (although
    you can manually do so)
(3) new graphs (or DS added to old graphs) must use the new
    mechanism

| I've got one small feature request.  I find myself constantly adding
| cdefs to multiplay by 8 and multiply by -1, to convert octets to bytes
| and invert the graphs.  I'd like to see two additional checkboxes in
| the graph definition for these common operations.

Ack..  i already find the table too dense and have trouble
making everything fit.  This however could probably be solved
with some JavaScript, the same way the global toggles are done
for the "Additional GPRINTs".  I could take these and the new
ones you want out of the table which would allow even more
such "tools".

i never got a good sense of whether people are bothered by the
use of JavaScript, but this would be my preferred way of doing
this.  Otherwise, it could be done at the time you add the DS
to the graph, but this is more cumbersome.

| I've also got some code lying around I should send you that makes the
| color list customizable in the config file, and makes the default
| color assignment algorithm better by attempting to avoid putting
| similar colors adjacent to each other on new items.

Sounds good, please do send it! :-)