Question

I’m struggling with ways how to input user preferences for given set.

I have discrete set of (up to 20) elements, ie I have list of 5 items: cat, dog, fish, chameleon, snake
and what I want is to draw simple graph with n sliders each from 0..100%.

For example if user preferences (as home pet) cat: 95%, dog: 80%, fish: 65%, chameleon: 20% and snake: 0%, I want him to be able to draw this curve.

I also want sliders and titles (ie, cat, dog…) for X-coordinate to by automatically generated based on elements of the list (Y-coordinate should be %).

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How difficult is that?

(use jQuery or silverlight?)_

Answer 1

First you have to create sliders. You can use jQueryUI Sliders. You can get all the values from each slider.

Once you have the values, you can use a plotting plugin like jqplot (http://www.jqplot.com/).