NetCharts® Applets v4.6 Release Notes and New Features

NetCharts Applets 4.6 introduces a new chart type, a number of new chart component controls and a variety of chart-specific enhancements.

See the appropriate API documentation for each enhancement.

Chart Type Enhancements

• Polar Charts - New Chart Type!

A Polar chart has been added to NetCharts Applets in version 4.6. Polar charts specify points as an angle and a distance from the origin.

Basic Polar Chart	Multi-Series Polar Chart	Polar Chart with Multiple Axes
Polar Chart with symbols	Polar Chart with solid fills

• Bar Chart enhancements

NetCharts Applets v4.6 supports stacked grouped bar charts. This release also allows control over the ordering of the items in the legend of stacked bar charts.

Stacked Grouped 3-D Bar Chart

Stacked Grouped 2-D Bar Chart

• Box Chart enhancements

Boxchart supports a new PlotType called PERCENTN. PERCENTN behaves like TENNINETY mode except the box uses a user specified number N and 100-N as its 2 percentile borders.

85-15 Box Chart

• Dial Chart enhancements

A new CDL parameter allows specification of Hand labels in Dial Charts. Three new needle hand styles are available:

• Needle Line
• Needle Fill
• Needle Button
  

Dial Chart with filled hand

Dial Chart with Needle Hand

Dial Chart with color-filled hand

• Radar Chart enhancements
  Radar chart supports new axis controls. See the API documentation for netcharts.pro.charts.radar.NFRadialAxis.setColor(),netcharts.pro.charts.radar.NFRadialAxis.setScale() and netcharts.pro.charts.radar.NFRadialAxis.setTitleLabel().
  

 

 

New Chart Features in v4.6 : Additional text controls (scoring, ascents) New data symbols Individual Data point coloring Tic coloring Axis auto-scaling hints Improved anti-alias controls

• Text rendering enhancements

New label parameters allow control over text ascent, descent and leading, and support text underscoring, overscoring and strike-through.

• Data point symbol rendering enhancements

NetCharts Applets v4.6 introduces a new data point symbol called TARGET that draws a small circle within a larger circle.

All Data Point symbols now allow control of symbol shadow width. The default width of the shadow is relative to the size of the symbol. Set the shadow width to 0 to produce flat, two-dimensional symbols.

• Individual data point color control

Most chart types now allow control over the color of individual data points within a series.

• Autoscaling axis enhancements

NetCharts Applets v4.6 introduces a new axis parameter called AutoscalePad that allows control over the minimum and maximum axis values NetCharts Applets v4.6 chooses when auto-scaling an axis. This pad value adds margins to the axis range, so that the minimum and maximum points on an auto-scaled axis are not drawn at the extreme edge of the plot area.

• Improved AntiAlias controls

In NetCharts Applets v4.6, text drawing and line drawing can have independent AntiAlias settings. It is possible to AntiAlias the drawing of just text, just lines or both text and lines.

Additional Feature Enhancements

• Changes to Dwell Label precedence

Dwell label precedence has changed. Dwell Labels are used to create the MAP tags that implement popup labels on chart images. The precedence of Dwell Labels now matches the order in which data points are drawn instead of the order in which they are specified in CDL parameters. Dwell Label precedence now also respects the DrawOrder parameter.

• Javascript Active Labels in IE6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 introduced new security polices involving javascript URLs. NetCharts Applets v4.6 adds support for using javascript URLs in Active Labels in this new version of Internet Explorer.