NetCharts Pro 6.0 Release Notes and New Features
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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.
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