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 Future plans for chartdirector |
| Posted by Mike on Jan-29-2014 18:00 |
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Hi,
my team is looking for a chart tool that provides both a rich client side experience (like
highcharts for example) and an easy api to generate static images on the server (like
chartdirector). Tablet support is also a must-have.
We would like to know if there are any plans to enrich chartdirector on the client and if
there are plans to support tablets?
For example:
*Zooming (also: pinch to zoom)
*Chart animations
*Rich tooltips
*Modern look & feel
Thank you for your time,
Mike |
| Re: Future plans for chartdirector |
| Posted by Peter Kwan on Jan-30-2014 04:11 |
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Hi Mike,
If you are writing a web application, you can display ChartDirector charts in any device
that can display web pages, including a tablet.
For "rich tooltips", ChartDirector generates standard and configurable HTML image maps
to support tooltips. You can configure the HTML image map to use many third party "rich
tooltip" libraries, such as JQuery tooltips. You can certain choose a third party "rich
tooltip" library that can support tablets.
If you want rich tooltips, it is likely you want rich tooltips for your entire web page, not
just the charts. So you probably have already got a rich tooltip library. By using the same
library for charts allow you to have consistent tooltips for your whole web page.
We are planning to support "programming track cursors" on tablets and mobile phones.
We would also implement a method to control zooming and scrolling on touch based
device similar to the zooming and scrolling support for mouse based device. They are
expected to be available in around Jun 2014. But in the next version, we probably would
not have "chart animations" for web based applications.
For the current version, you can actually have track cursors and zooming and scrolling on
tablets, as the AJAX mechanism works on mobile device too. However, you would need to
implement the user interface with your own code. For example, in the simplest case, you
may use "double tap" to mean zooming in. To do this, in the double tap event handler,
you can update the view port to reflect zooming in, and send the request to the server
to have the chart updated.
For "modern look & feel", in every version, we would update the look and feel. Also,
ChartDirector is very flexible that in some sense, it is like "Photoshop" or some graphics
editor that you may create your own style. As an example, I have attached a circular
meter. The style of this meter is not found in our sample code, but can be created by the
current version of ChartDirector simply by adding layers of radial gradients.
Regards
Peter Kwan
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| Re: Future plans for chartdirector |
| Posted by Maxx on Aug-09-2014 14:40 |
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"They are expected to be available in around Jun 2014"...
Patiently waiting for new goodies...
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