NetCharts Pro 7.0 Release Notes and New Features
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7.0
- SVG Output support
- NetCharts Pro v7.0 can produce charts as SVG objects. HTML 5 compliant
web browsers can view NetCharts Pro SVG charts without the need for
a third party browser plugin. The SVG output type supports build animations,
legend interactivity and data highlighting.
- Flash Output support
- NetCharts Pro v7.0 can display charts as Flash objects. NetCharts
Pro's default vector output format is SVG, however NetCharts Pro includes
code that can automatically translate SVG into Flash in the browser,
allowing non-HTML 5 compliant browsers to view animated interactive
NetCharts Pro charts.
- Build Animation
- NetCharts Pro 7.0 charts, when delivered as SVG objects support build
animations. Bars on barcharts can grow from the axis, or fade in. Lines
on line charts bend into shape. Pies spin into shape. Bubbles and line
symbols grow. See the CDL and API documentation for
BarAnimationStyle,
BubbleAnimationStyle, DialHandAnimationStyle,
GridAnimationStyle, LabelAnimationStyle,
LineAnimationStyle, SliceAnimationStyle,
and StockAnimationStyle, PieHighlights
and PieEdgeHighlights.
- Interactive Legends
- NetCharts Pro 7.0 charts, when delivers as SVG objects, support specification
of advanced legend interactivity. Rolling over a legend item can highlight
the related data series. Clicking on a legend item can temporarily hide
or show the related data series. See the CDL and API documentation for
DwellAnimationStyle, LegendDwellAnimationStyle
and ToggleDataVisibility.
- Bar Fill Pattern enhancements
- The fill patterns on bars in barcharts, combocharts, paretocharts
and stockcharts have been enhanced to allow individual control over
the fill patterns on the front, top and right hand side surfaces of
2.5 bars. See the CDL and API documentation for
BarTopFillPattern
and BarRightFillPattern.
- New Highlight Styles
- Pies and Bars support the specification of Highlight styles. Multiple
highlight gradients to be defined for pies and bars to create rich textured
surfaces. See the CDL and API documentation for
BarHighlights,
PieHighlights and PieEdgeHighlights.
- New Spotlight Styles
- Pies and Bars support the specification of Spotlight styles. Multiple
spotlights to be defined for pies and bars to create light sources directed
at pies and bars from various view points. See the CDL and API documentation
for
BarHighlights, BarSpotlights
and PieSpotlights.
- Drop Shadows
- NetCharts Pro 7.0 supports drop shadows for pies, lines and lines.
Drop shadow color, size and location can be specified. See the CDL and
API documentation for
BarDropShadow, PieDropShadow
and LineDropShadow.
- Bar Corner Styles
- NetCharts Pro 7.0 barcharts allows styling of the corners of a bar.
Any of the four corners of a bar can be square, rounded or clipped.
The size of the round or clip can be specified. See the CDL and API
documentation for
BarCorners.
- New axis tic length control
- In NetCharts Pro v7.0 the length of axis tic marks can be specified.
See the CDL and API documentation for
BottomTicLength,
LeftTicLength, RightTicLength
and TopTicLength.
- New Image based rollover features
- In NetCharts Pro 7.0 charts delivered in bitmap formats such as PNG
or GIF have new options for rollover interactivity. Individual data
points can be highlighted on rollover. Entire data series can be highlighted
when associated legend items are rolled over. See the CDL and API documentation
for
DwellAnimationStyle and LegendDwellAnimationStyle.
- Jave 6 required
- NetCharts Pro requires the use of a Java JVM 1.6 or above.
- NetCharts Applets integrated into NetCharts Pro
- NetCharts Applets is now distributed as part of NetCharts Pro. All
NetCharts Applets features and capabilities remain. The netcharts.jar
file has been renamed ncp-core.jar. See the document Web Scripting with NetCharts Pro Applets.
for details.
- Runtime parameter default value changes
- The default value for the runtime parameter
MaxPoints has changed from 50 to 10.
This may effect certain uses of the GroupStackBar chart.
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