Hi Jörg, > > You asked about the state of the chart module. The chart module is > > currently reimplemted from scratch to create a useable base to implement > > the missing features. The accessory childworkspace is 'chart2mst3'. I am > > not sure whether we can integrate it before 3.0. > That sounds not good, is it possible to help? Maybe at the specification > process? Would it make sense, if external volunteers specify the > behavior of already implemented chart2mst3 features? Maybe we can > publish a press release that help is needed?
Helping with the specifications would be great. There are several differences to the old Chart wich are not documented within a specification so far: 1) Automatic Scaling The automatic scaling of axis has be enhanced ( Issue 30426 & 54888 ) 2) Scale tabpage for value axis: a) For logarithmic scales manual minimum and maximum settings now are recognized ( Issue 27694 ) b) For logarithmic scales the major interval now has a meaning and can be changed. 1 is one order of magnitude. 2 is 2 orders of magnitude etc. (Issue 26869) c) The minor interval now always is given by a number of subintervals to ease the setting as it was before for logarithmic scales only. 3) Minor Grids Minor Grids are not paintet on the Major Grids position anymore (this maybe could be mentioned within 2c ) 4) Insert Title Dialog The checkboxes for titles have been removed in the wizard and in the insert title dialog to avoid confusion (Issue 13443, Issue 26537) http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartInsertTitleDialog.odt 5) Pie Segment Dragging 3D Pie Segment Dragging and Ring Segment Dragging is now possible in addition to 2D Pie segment dragging (Issue 20321). 6) Source Format for Axis and DataLabels If setting the number format to 'Source format' different number formats in Calc are now recognized in Chart for separat series and single datapoints. 7) Range Highlighting The Highlighting of cell ranges in calc for accessory selected chart objects has changed a) It is not drawn a border around the whole range anymore; instead each different part is highlighted by itself. E.g. each series and each series label has its own highlighting border. Thus you can more easily see how the range is separated for your chart (rows, columns, with or without labels). b) If a category axis is selected the accessory categories are highlighted if coming from a calc cellrange. 8) Net Chart a) The Net Chart now can have an own x axis thus you can set the labbeling for both axis independently. b) Grid Lines in Net Charts are now direct connection lines and no circles anymore. 9) Bar Chart a) Bar Connectors are now possible for Bar Charts also; not for Column Charts only. b) Overlapping Bars and Columns have changed painting order to be like MS Excel. 10) Legend The legend entry for series with line and symbols has changed to show the line in addition to the symbol. Furthermore we would like to create a specification for the current default colors and symbols. This then later on could be used as a basis to change to a more pretty colorset and maybe an enhanced symbol set or so. But thats future. About the press release I am not so sure. Who will coordinate the maybe dozens of people? > > First we have to finish > > the reimplementation and there is still a lot of work. If you are > > interested in evaluating or testing the current state I maybe could > > provide some current builds for download > I think only a few people know about the ongoing reimplementation. IMHO > the chart2 project is hide too deep, as a submodule of the graphics > project. Is there a technical reason, that chart2 belongs to this > project? Or is this just the department structure inside SUN? Wouldn't > it be good to give chart(2) full project status, with own website and > mailing list? I would like to stay with only one website for the chart. We have it already at http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html. I must admit that it is outdated and needs a cleanup. If you have good ideas what you want to see here let me know. Thanks for offering your help, Ingrid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
