[rrd-users] outputting lines and legends in order of weighting

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm plotting (among other things), the time offset between 
the local clock and several ntpd peers. For each peer I plot 
the jitter as a band of light color (say light red) with the 
actual time offset as a line (say dark red) in the middle of 
the band.

Since some of the ntp peers are of different stratums 
(strata?), I plot the data with the least accuracy first, 
allowing the most accurate data (and jitter bands) to 
overwrite the least accurate data.

All fine so far.

However when I plot the boxes in the legend with the colors 
and value of offset for each ntp peer with the lowest 
priority lines being written first, the lowest priority peer 
is written out in the legend first. Is there a way to write 
out the highest priority legend (and its color) first?

I'm happy to do some fakery, eg make two passes at writing 
out the data (eg one for the lines in one order and another 
for the legend in the other order), but I can't figure how 
to do it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks Joe

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