I'm having trouble getting a small graphical program together, I've got a data source that I want to monitor displaying the data in a nice graph which reguarly updates every N seconds. The graphical side of it doesn't need to be to complicated, maybe a half dozen options and a graph that updates itself.

Creating the actual graph itself isn't to hard, I've been using GD::Graph::lines to do this quite well for a while, getting the graph on-screen is proving more of a challange however. The closest I've come is using GD::Graph to save it to a file and then Gtk2::Image->new_from_file() to load it from disk and display it. Surely there must be a better way than this?

I thought about perl-tk, perl-gtk and perk-gtk2 and went for what looks like the newest one however none of the three seem to be in Redhat4.0, what is the normal package for doing this kind of thing? I can't believe there are no graphical perl programs in RedHat so am I missing another tool for doing this?

In reply to Which tk to use and how to show images? by Sinatra

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