Re: Color bar charts

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Screen layout is attached.

Actually, no, it isn't. List servers generally don't forward attachments.
Among other things, it's a safety issue.

But more to the point, if you can use a horizontal bar chart, with each
bar in a single color, how about setting up a character field of the
appropriate color, then populating it with hex '1F' characters? Or some
other character, like asterisks or pound signs, if your terminal or
emulator doesn't render hex '1F' as a "semigraphics" block?

Or if that doesn't work for you, how about defining the field with a
"reverse image" attribute, then populating it with spaces, with a hex '20'
after the last cell in the bar?

Or if you need multiple colors in each bar, a variation: insert the
appropriate reverse image attributes (hex '21' for green, hex '23' for
white, hex '29' for red [which will blink on a monochrome terminal], hex
'31' for cyan, hex '33' for yellow, hex '39' for pink, and hex '3B' for
blue) into the field. (Note that there will be a single black cell at each
color change.)

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JHHL