Special case of bar charts for unevenly spaced data

[Dplot_user_vj]

Hi,

I have some data which is very uneven. I have files with 4 different sizes and I have 4 different methods of performing an operation on the 4 files. I need to plot graph for each of the method against the file sizes. For example,

Time taken to perform the Time taken to perform the
operation using method 1 operation using Method 2
File 1 3 secs 1 sec
File 2 4 secs 2 sec
File 3 5 secs 3 sec
File 4 6 secs 4 sec

So I wanna plot these times against the file sizes for 4 different methods. The problem here is that when i plot the first method's times, and right click on the plot and choose bar chart it works fine. BUt when i plot the times of 2 methods and right click and try to get a bar chart, I get this message:

"Ordinates on a bar chart with multiple data sets must be evenly spaced"

Almost all the data sets that I have are unevenly spaced because of the kind of tests that I need to perform.

Is there a way around this??Plzzzzzz help me out....I need this plot!!

Thanks a lot in advance.

[DPlotAdmin]

If your X axis values aren't evenly-spaced, the error message is correct and the only way around that in DPlot is to replace the X values with, for example, 1,2,3,4,... You could then use Text>X,Y Labels to replace the 1,2,3,4,... with file sizes, and set the number format for the X axis to "none" so that 1,2,3,4 aren't drawn.