I second both of these and apologies for hijacking the other thread!

Maybe a little bit of javascript to display/not display the results, with an easy adjustment for the site owner, as to the preference?  ...The idea of not showing the results until someone votes is that you do not want to influence the person's vote ahead of time.  It affects the results.  ...Glad you will be adding the flash chart library!  Cool!

@yakiv I understand the point of not showing the results due to influencing the user but even in the current state, the results aren't really hidden, you can just click the 'results' link and toggle them on/off to see the results.

@yakiv my mistake, the results are only viewable to the author before submission.
so I think that maybe taking out the results toggle link is a good idea, no point for it.

looking at the bar charts of that open flash chart library I'm pondering how would the response text fit into it?

In the examples they use month names (January etc) or numbers but in the case of polls, the response text can be quite long (say, 60 chars or even more) - that would probably not look all that good in that flash chart.

what do you think?

How about these?

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/tooltip-hover.php should be good for the barchart option (maybe add the response text to the mouseover tooltip also)?

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/pie-chart-no-labels.php for the piechart, although also add a title to the chart.

that open flash chart gave me a headache!

would you care to attempt to implement it into the code?
otherwise, possibly we can use something like css charts, like this: http://speckyboy.com/2009/02/04/16-usable-css-graph-and-bar-chart-tutorials-and-techniques/

I think the only thing to do - with regard to the flash charts - is to have the display correspond to numbered choices.  Or, possibly look at other options.  I dug up a joomla component/plugin based poll to look at, as an example that might inspire you:

http://apoll.genev.info/view-all-polls-demo/view/apoll/4

There are others on the internet. Maybe someone can find an open source example. I tried searching on SourceForge.net and didn't find anything too wonderful.

Of course, this proprietary example is not bad:

http://www.phpjabbers.com/web-poll/flash-poll-mysql.php

I got the open flash chart v1 to work a couple of hours ago and recently got version 2 to work as well... what you pointed me to is v2 and it's still in alpha, the documentation for it is AWFUL and got me all confused.

So I got both versions to work now but I'm still not sure if they are a good choice to use.