help with plot framework

[Hawk <hawk@jump.net>]

Hi:

i'm creating a histogram (bar chart) in my app using the plot framework
(and WO4NT w/java). the y-axis data points are integer values and work
fine, the x axis is a series of m/y dates, and sorta works...

the problem is in the tic-mark's for the x axis. the framework appears to
be taking the spread of dates from earliest to latest, and computing the
appropriate place to put tic marks by dividing that range into (in it's
mind) even pieces. so instead of having one tic-mark for each month/yr
datapoint, i get tic marks at odd (say 23 day) intervals with the data
bars fitting in between. it makes it very difficult to see what dates are
*really* being displayed. also, the first january first tic mark gets
labeled with the month, day, year and time, and the others seem to be
somewhat arbitrarily labeled.

what i want to do is have one ticmark per x-axis data point and to have
them all labeled mm/yy. 

anybody have any experience with this?

thanks, in advance,
hawk