[drraw-users] More Colors? Auto detect DSs?

[Christophe Kalt]

On Mar 07, Joel Krauska wrote:
| So I found the simple %colors definition below the "NO NO NO don't 
| change any code below here", added a few, and it worked great... :)

Hehehe..

| Maybe import the color list from the conf file?

Yes, that's part of what David's patch does.

| > | 2. How about making an auto drop-down of DS;s?
| > | Yes, I can RRDinfo an rrd on the page, but then I have to type in the
| > | DS name I want to use.  Couldn't a list of available DS's for a given
| > | rrd be dropped in?
| > 
| > I'm not quite sure how you see this working.
| > Do you want the "Available Database Files" list to include
| > an entry for each DS for each file?
| > A dropped down list would require an extra step, no?
| 
| Yes.
| AJAX? :)

Hm, well, i learned something new today :-)

| There are lots of sexy things you could do with drraw if you wanted to 
| spend a few weeks using AJAX. (populate DS lists, immediately show graph 
| updates, etc..)

I'm open to the idea, do *you* have time? ;-)

| At the expense of sanity and perhaps server load.

Well, i can't help with your sanity, but hopefully we can
minimize the impact on the server.

| Anyway...
| I found my browser cache and the persistence of the text input boxes 
| made this process much easier.

:)