- New Chart Designer:
The chart designer has been re-designed with new options, more
intuitive toolbars, and migrated to a Swing interface.
- Chart Designer API:
Users can now embed the chart designer within their applications,
and call it in a number of different configurations using the new chart designer API calls.
- Parameter Drill Down:
A new drill down method allows users running with databases on
the back end, to link charts with query parameters. This allows users to drill to charts with
different value elements.
- Multi-axis Overlay Chart:
Users can now specify to plot the series elements in an
overlay chart in a multi axis configuration. Each element can have it's own axis, or different
elements can be plotted an any set of axes.
- Pie Chart Series:
Users can now plot a data series in both 2D and 3D pie charts. When
a series is present, a separate pie will be drawn for each category element. Users can control the
positioning of the multi-pie configuration.
- Data point/line order:
User's can now control the drawing order of dataline & datapoints.
(API Only)
- Stack Section Labels:
In addition to data top labels, users can now specify to show the
value for each section in stack-type charts.
- Drill Down Chart Dimension:
Drill down charts are now default to the same size as the
top-level chart.
- New QbChart Constructor:
Chart objects can be created from a byte array of a chart or
template file. (API Only)
- New canvas measurements:
Users can now specify the chart canvas size in pixels, inches,
or centimeters.
- Chart anti alias:
To improve the quality of generated charts, users can now specify anti
aliasing effects for the chart. This feature require JDK 1.2 or higher.
- Chart Viewer zoom/scroll:
Users can zoom in to a particular axis range for both value
and category axes, and then scroll along the axes. This is also available for Mini Viewer.
- Set Drill Template Path:
Using a new Chart Viewer parameter, users can now set the location
from which the drill down templates are loaded. This is useful when running Viewer without EspressManager.
- New trend line calculations:
Using the API, users can now retrieve several values from trend
lines. Users can calcuate the minimum value of a data set, the maximum value of the data set, the
probability of the specified multiple of deviation value, and the multiple of standerd deviation of
the speified probability value. (API Only)
- New default colors:
Default chart colors have been modified to improve the appearance of
generated charts.
- Full column name hints:
New hint box at the bottom of the data mapping window displays
the full name of the selected column field. Long field names may be truncated in the drop-down menus.
- Improved chart sizing:
Using the fit on canvas option now sizes the chart better. Chart
plot is less likely to be undersized. (API Only)
- Connecting label lines in pie charts:
For 2D pie charts, users can now draw a connecting
line from the label to the pie slice. This helps label pie charts with small slices.
- Legend symbol reflects line styles:
For charts with lines, the legend symbols will have
the same style as the line. i.e. a dashed line in the chart will have a dashed line symbol in the legend.
- Map files now XML 1.1 compliant:
Generated map files for hyperlinks and drill down have
been modified to be XML compliant.
- Enhanced axis label mouse feedback:
Axis label mouse feedback now includes the actual
label strings. Instead of "X axis label", "X axis label = category A" would be returned. (API Only)
- Improved text positioning:
Text positioning for labels using the Java 2D text rotation
feature has been improved.
