As Tucker has pointed out on several occasions, Laszlo is only willing to provide certain enhancements for money as they are a commercial enterprise. I'm wondering if they would be willing to establish a marketplace where outside individuals could contribute fixes and enhancements -- for instance to these charting components or the doc tools -- where upon satisfactory completion the participants would receive points that could be redeemed for their desired enhancements. Laszlo would set the price value for the desired contributions and general rules within this marketplace. This would allow Laszlo personnel to refuse an enhancement request if they felt it was detrimental to the overall quality of Laszlo. Basically, this is the trade of outside developer time for a pro-rated amount of Laszlo developer time. Hopefully, this would result in the generation of further contributions from the community towards Laszlo development.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Raju Bitter < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Amy. I agree, it would be great to have charting components. :-) > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Amy Muntz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Raju, >> Thanks for pointing us to the errors. >> >> Yes - they aren't even beta quality at this point. I am really hoping that >> someone will step up to move them forward - it would be a great thing for >> the project. >> >> But, until then, we are going to remove them from the Reference Manual. >> See http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-9648. >> >> Thanks again! >> Amy >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Raju Bitter < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Amy, I'm referring to the "classes" tab in the reference. The list of all >>> classes starting with lz.alert, lz.animator, etc. I know that all the >>> components in beta are marked on the component details page using these >>> word: "Warning! This component is of Beta quality and is subject to >>> change." >>> >>> See the attached screenshot, with the compiler error. Wouldn't "beta" >>> quality of a component mean that you at least can compile and display the >>> component? With barchart, I get a compiler error for SWF10, and JavaScript >>> errors/app not loading for DHTML runtime (tested with Safari and Firefox). >>> >>> I'm not planning to use this components, just noticed the compiler error. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Lou Iorio <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Raju, >>>> >>>> All the chart components are beta, so they are already in their own >>>> section. >>>> >>>> Do you want me to mark each component in the charts list as beta, like >>>> this? >>>> >>>> <axis> (Beta) >>>> <axisstyle> (Beta) >>>> <barchart> (Beta) >>>> ... >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Raju Bitter < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks, Amy. I know that the charts were in beta state. I ran into this >>>>> looking at the reference guide for barchart, seeing the compiler error >>>>> instead of the example. Maybe it would be good to put the beta components >>>>> in >>>>> a separate section, or to visually mark them as beta within the classes >>>>> listing. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Amy Muntz >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Raju, >>>>>> >>>>>> The charts and graphs were always in a Beta state, as indicated on the >>>>>> pages of the Reference Manual, and they were never brought forward to >>>>>> swf10. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This would be a great community project if someone wanted to take a >>>>>> pass at them. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are actually two charting and graphing efforts within OL: >>>>>> 1) http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/lps/components/chartsis >>>>>> what these examples refer to and have not been moved forward >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) >>>>>> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/lps/components/queens-charts/was >>>>>> a redesign effort that never made it past beta, but had some really nice >>>>>> features. There is an API proposal here: >>>>>> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Charting_API_Change_Proposal. It was >>>>>> mostly implemented, but was never brought forward to swf10 or moved into >>>>>> the >>>>>> source tree. The include still defaults to the old version, but it would >>>>>> be >>>>>> great if someone could make these current and contribute them to OL. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Amy >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Raju Bitter < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Calling >>>>>>> http://localhost:8080/trunk/test/charts/barchart/test_bar_01.lzx?lzoptions=runtime(swf10),proxied(true)<http://localhost:8080/trunk/test/charts/barchart/test_bar_01.lzx?lzoptions=runtime%28swf10%29,proxied%28true%29>on >>>>>>> trunk, I get many errors. Are you aware of this? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Compilation Errorsorg.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: >>>>>>> charts/common/axis.lzx: 107: Error: A conflict exists with inherited >>>>>>> definition $lzc$class_drawview.scale in namespace public, in line: var >>>>>>> ticklabelcolumn;var type;var interval;var columnName;var dataSeries;var >>>>>>> axisEnabled;var categoricalArray;var ratioPixel;var scale;var offset;var >>>>>>> tickmarkLabelMaxDecimals;var labelReposEnabled;var majorTickEnabled;var >>>>>>> minorTickEnabled;var majorInterval;var titleLocation;var title;var >>>>>>> titleX;var titleY;var titleGap;var tickMarkPositions;var >>>>>>> labelTextArray;var >>>>>>> labelArray;var minimum;var maximum;var minimumRender;var >>>>>>> maximumRender;var >>>>>>> adjustmin;var tickMarksLabelsEnabled;var labelrotation;var >>>>>>> _labelspool;var >>>>>>> fixedRange;var tickMarksView;var objStroke;var titleView;function >>>>>>> renderTick >>>>>>> () { >>>>>>> charts/styles/styleparser.lzx: 41: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property lParser, in line: lParser = new (lz.styleparser)(this, >>>>>>> {defaultstyle: this.defaultstyle.subnodes[this.increment], style: >>>>>>> this.style}) >>>>>>> charts/styles/styleparser.lzx: 43: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property lParser, in line: lParser = new (lz.styleparser)(this, >>>>>>> {defaultstyle: this.defaultstyle.subnodes[this.increment], style: >>>>>>> this.style[this.defaultstyle.name]}) >>>>>>> charts/styles/styleparser.lzx: 49: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property lParser, in line: lParser = new (lz.styleparser)(this, >>>>>>> {defaultstyle: this.defaultstyle.subnodes[this.increment], style: >>>>>>> this.style[this.defaultstyle.subnodes[this.increment].name]}) >>>>>>> charts/common/chart.lzx: 150: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> both, in line: this.chartBackground.setAttribute("stretches", both) >>>>>>> charts/common/virtualdrawview.lzx: 85: Error: Incompatible override, >>>>>>> in line: override function moveTo ($0, $1) { >>>>>>> charts/common/virtualdrawview.lzx: 93: Error: Incompatible override, >>>>>>> in line: override function lineTo ($0, $1) { >>>>>>> charts/common/virtualdrawview.lzx: 101: Error: Incompatible override, >>>>>>> in line: override function quadraticCurveTo ($0, $1, $2, $3) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 61: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc1, in line: xinc1 = 1; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 62: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc2, in line: xinc2 = 1 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 64: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc1, in line: xinc1 = -1; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 65: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc2, in line: xinc2 = -1 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 69: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc1, in line: yinc1 = 1; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 70: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc2, in line: yinc2 = 1 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 72: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc1, in line: yinc1 = -1; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 73: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc2, in line: yinc2 = -1 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 77: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc1, in line: xinc1 = 0; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 78: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc2, in line: yinc2 = 0; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 79: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property den, in line: den = $6; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 80: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num = $6 / 2; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 81: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numadd, in line: numadd = $7; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 82: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numpixels, in line: numpixels = $6 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 84: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc2, in line: xinc2 = 0; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 85: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc1, in line: yinc1 = 0; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 86: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property den, in line: den = $7; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 87: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num = $7 / 2; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 88: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numadd, in line: numadd = $6; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 89: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numpixels, in line: numpixels = $7 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 92: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property curpixel, in line: for (curpixel = 0;curpixel <= >>>>>>> numpixels;curpixel++) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 104: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num += numadd; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 104: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num += numadd; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 104: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numadd, in line: num += numadd; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 105: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: if (num >= den) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 105: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property den, in line: if (num >= den) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 106: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num -= den; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 106: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property num, in line: num -= den; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 106: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property den, in line: num -= den; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 107: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc1, in line: $8 += xinc1; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 108: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc1, in line: $9 += yinc1 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 110: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property xinc2, in line: $8 += xinc2; >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 111: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property yinc2, in line: $9 += yinc2 >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 92: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property curpixel, in line: for (curpixel = 0;curpixel <= >>>>>>> numpixels;curpixel++) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 92: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property curpixel, in line: for (curpixel = 0;curpixel <= >>>>>>> numpixels;curpixel++) { >>>>>>> charts/styles/strokestyle.lzx: 92: Error: Access of undefined >>>>>>> property numpixels, in line: for (curpixel = 0;curpixel <= >>>>>>> numpixels;curpixel++) { >>>>>>> charts/piechart/piepiece.lzx: 59: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> sigma, in line: sigma = $2 + $c * $h; >>>>>>> charts/piechart/piepiece.lzx: 63: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> sigma, in line: $6 = $4 * Math.cos(sigma * Math.PI / 180); >>>>>>> charts/piechart/piepiece.lzx: 64: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> sigma, in line: $7 = $4 * Math.sin(-sigma * Math.PI / 180); >>>>>>> charts/piechart/piepiece.lzx: 68: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> sigma, in line: $8 = $6 + $4 * $f * Math.cos((sigma - 90) * Math.PI / >>>>>>> 180); >>>>>>> charts/piechart/piepiece.lzx: 69: Error: Access of undefined property >>>>>>> sigma, in line: $9 = $7 + $4 * $f * Math.sin(-(sigma - 90) * Math.PI / >>>>>>> 180); >>>>>>> .... more than 50 errors, additional errors not shown. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
