Re: [Perfparse-devel] RE: Working on PerfParse stuff...

[Ben C. <Be...@cl...>]

Garry, I saw your bug report, can you try the new version enclosed. 
This does not have your alterations in it, so keep your copy!  Please 
let me know if this works.

Cook, Garry wrote:

>>I think you mentioned having a calender to select the dates
>>for absolute
>>time?  Which sounds a good idea.  I will have to find a open
>>source once
>>somewhere, less haste than writing one.
>>
> 
> Yes, I did indeed mention that. I'll look into it as well, see what I
> can dig up.

See what you can get...  There are lots around, the license is the 
biggest problem.  I am sure somewhere there is a free or GPL version. 
Would be a great addition.

At this time, we can break the date/time for absolute into date and time.

> Once you tab to the drop down list, ALT-DOWNARROW will open it up and
> allow you to scroll through the options. I also prefer keyboard to
> mouse, but hate having to type lots of numbers, especially if they need
> a ':' separator. I always fat-finger the numbers.

We can see how it works :)  Can you do a mock-up of the entire screen 
with mouse controls?  The 'host' and 'service' you can ignore.  These 
can be replaced by <input type=hidden ... > tags, and a description at 
the top explaining which host/service we are looking at.

> I won't pretend to understand that yet. But perhaps if I look at the
> code... I'll see what I can do.

Just use two where there was one.  In the getCGI() you will, after 
getting the two variables, remake the original:

sprintf(sRelativeTime, "%s:%s", sRelativeHours, sRelativeMinutes)

You may want to give just a few time options, maybe 00, 15, 30 and 45. 
Beyond that the graph doesn't display well, and is pretty meaningless. 
The same for the absolute if you want a challange :)

All the best,

Ben