Hi Daniel, Yes, you're absolutely right regarding the axis - I forgot to mention this (as I said, we did experiment with this approach and found it not very suitable to our needs). It's good to hear that you guys are planning to continue investing in that direction, although we kind of need that "future" today :-)
Thanks anyway! Cheers, Pavel. On Thursday, October 16, 2014 3:04:27 PM UTC-4, Daniel LaLiberte wrote: > > Hi Pavel, > > We plan on supporting a variety of startup animations at some point. The > current code base has a number of issues that limit our choices, but we may > be able to add at least one form of the startup animation. > > One complication, if you want to try doing this yourself, is that if you > display a chart with only zeros for series values, that would not be quite > enough because you really want to anticipate the axis range that will be > used when you finally display the chart with the data. > > Animations will be a slow as the normal chart drawing itself is, > unfortunately, at least with the current code. But I expect much more > interesting things will be possible in the future. > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Pavel Volgarev <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Tim's colleague is here. What we're ultimately looking for is a way to >> have a nice start-up animation, like in Chart.js (http://www.chartjs.org/). >> Google Visualization API does have transition animations but they haven't >> been working that well for us for a couple of reasons: >> >> - It looks like you have to take a two-phase approach if you want to >> have some sort of start-up animation: you first need to set everything to >> zero and then (after a short delay), update the chart with the actual >> values. I think this is a bit hacky and it's accompanied by not very nice >> user experience (you can see the chart area/bars/lines flickering >> sometimes). >> - Transition animations are quite slow (low FPS) if you have three or >> four charts on the same screen and they're animating at the same time. >> >> We're targeting variety of user agents (both desktop and mobile) although >> we officially support only relatively modern ones (for example, we don't >> officially support Internet Explorer 9). >> >> I was initially thinking about decorating the Google Visualization API a >> little bit to allow us to apply SVG animations (via a third-party library) >> when the chart gets rendered. >> >> Looking forward to your thoughts. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Pavel. >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 11:26:18 AM UTC-4, Daniel LaLiberte wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> We don't support any other easing functions at this time, though it >>> wouldn't be hard to add more. Which ones would you find most useful or >>> essential? Or do you need a custom function? >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Tim Voronov <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> does anybody know whether it’s possible to add extra easing functions >>>> to Google Charts? >>>> >>>> Officially they support only: - 'linear' - 'in' - 'out' - 'inAndOut' >>>> >>>> It’s obviously not enough and in my case I need completely different >>>> one. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Google Visualization API" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >>>> group/google-visualization-api. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel LaLiberte <https://plus.google.com/100631381223468223275?prsrc=2> >>> - 978-394-1058 >>> [email protected] 5CC, Cambridge MA >>> [email protected] 9 Juniper Ridge Road, Acton MA >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Visualization API" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Daniel LaLiberte <https://plus.google.com/100631381223468223275?prsrc=2> > - 978-394-1058 > [email protected] <javascript:> 5CC, Cambridge MA > [email protected] <javascript:> 9 Juniper Ridge Road, Acton MA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
