
GnomeChart was originally created as a fun "weekend hack" between
November 16th and November 18th of 2001.  My goals in writing it were:

(1) To show off some of the capabilities of Guppi.

(2) To provide a small example program that uses Guppi in a
    non-trivial way.

(3) To have fun by doing some non-Evolution hacking.

The initial version incorporates some code that I had laying around,
and re-invents several wheels in a pretty hideous fashion. (i.e. I do
all of the http requests by hand.)

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Some possible future projects that might be fun:

* Support for the unimplemented functions (printing, etc.)

* Add some UI for selecting specific ranges of dates.

* Have multiple windows open simultaneously.

* Add the ability to superimpose technical indicators (moving
  averages, etc.)

* Add the ability to compare two stocks or compare a stock to an
  index, with everything properly normalized for a proper comparison.

* Importing data from sources other than Yahoo!.

* Pluggable importers.

* Make GnomeChart into some sort of bonobo component.

I'm accepting patches...

-JT