Advanced
Horizontal Bar Graph, version 3.2
by Sirius Computer Consultants Limited
Retrieving
Configuration Data from File
Both
the applet and servlet can be set to retrieve the configuration
properties from a data file. The configuration file is simply
a list of the property names with the value for each property.
The
first 20 character positions of a line in this file specify
the property name whilst position 21 onwards represent the
value for that property.
Any
line in the file which is either blank or begins with <!--
will be ignored. Therefore comment lines may be added to
file by beginning the line with <!--.
We recommend
that, rather than building a configuration from scratch,
that you take a copy of the example file barprops.txt
file and modify the values to suite your implementation.
In both
the applet and servlet the configuration file is specified
via a URL parameter and therefore the file can be placed
in any directory accessible via URL. However we recommend
keeping this config file in the same directory as your web
page which incorporates the bar graph.
For
a full explanation of each property and range of valid values
please see the
Configuration Options and Parameters
section.
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