NetCharts Pro 6.0 Release Notes and New Features

  • 6.0
    Histogram Chart
    NetCharts 6.0 includes a histogram chart type. Analyze data distributions by grouping and binning. Users can specify histogram bin ranges or number of bins and can display raw data or percentage distributions.

    3D Barchart
    NetCharts Barcharts can now display 3 dimensional data. Use the Z axis to create comparisons of multiple data series. An Adjustable viewing angle can be used to create the most effective visualization of three dimensional data. 3D Barcharts support all standard barchart parameters, while supporting the new parameters ViewPoint and ZAxisLabels.

    Legend Data Tables
    NetCharts 6.0 Barcharts, Linecharts and Combocharts support enhanced legends that contain data tables. Users can create chart and table combinations familiar to Excel users. This feature is activates with the new CDL parameters DataLegend, DataLegendGrid and DataLegendGridLine. The feature is enabled with the API method setDataLegendEnabled on NFBarchart, NFLinechart and NFCombochart.

    New Border Styles
    NetCharts 6.0 introduces new border types for chart backgrounds, titles, and other regions. Users can now specify square, rounded or clipped border corners. One, two or all four corners can be styled. The Background, all TitleBoxes and other region parameters now have 5 additional attributes that define the corner styles and corner colors. See the new Corner API methods on NFRegion. See the CDL reference manual for complete details.

    New Title Styles
    NetCharts chart titles now have backgrounds that can span the entire length of width of the chart. This can be used to create banner style charts and allows effective use of the chart title for alerting or other color coding. All title parameters have a new extend attribute that invokes this feature and the new TitleSpacing parameter allows titles to become banners. See the NFTitle.setBackgroundExtension API Method. See the CDL reference manual for complete details.

    Variable Width Bars
    Netcharts 6.0 Barcharts and Combocharts support variable width bars. In a chart with a single series of bars, each bar can have a unique length. In a chart with multiple bar series, each series can have its own width. This feature can be used to provide a thrid dimension to standard 2D barcharts. It is also enables the creation of bullet charts. See the chart gallery for examples. This feature is controlled by the BarWidth parameter and by the NFBarchart.setBarWidths() API method.

    New Barchart drawing mode
    Netcharts 6.0 stacked Barcharts can be condifured to draw connector lines between bars in the same set. These connector lines can improve the effectiveness of stacked barcharts making it easier for uses to track the changes in a particular set of bars. This feature is controlled by the NFBarchart.setStackedbarConnector() API method. See the StackedBarConnectors parameter description in the CDL reference manual for complete details.

    Combochart Line Drawing
    Starting in version 6, when a Combochart is drawn with GraphLayout=HORIZONTAL the X and Y coordinates of data points in each line series are transposed. This is considered correct behavior. Previous versions did not transpose these coordinates, which required users to manually transpose to achieve correct results. The old behavior can be maintained by passing a run time property UseOldComboLayout with a value of true to the chart constructor.

    New Chart Gallery
    The Netcharts 6.0 release contains a new chart gallery. This gallery has hundreds of new sample templates, improved navigation and keyword search.

    New Directory Structure in Installation
    The Netcharts 6.0 installation process places the NertCharts Pro jar files and License file into a subdirectory called classes.