On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Matthew, > > I wouldn't say I'm the first person to raise the issue. > I'm really not trying to argue--you submit that ticket yet? Nothing's going to happen without that. Yes, I could do it myself but I'm really trying to encourage our users to feel free to submit tickets. > I was combing through blogs last night about CFML > I meant brought up to OpenBD specifically. > , specifically some blogs about the steering committee and there were quite > a few posts from people 'suggesting' that cfcharts be brought up to speed in > a way that it can be considered a flagship feature, not a "kind of neat in > concept but not functional enough to be useful" tag. > Well, this gets into the realm of opinion. I find it incredibly useful even if you currently can't skip axis labels. > > I'm not dissing OpenBD or anything. I love it, and if I knew more, I would > dig right into making this work. But I don't, so I can only sit back and > raise the flag and pray someone makes it work, that, or the tag is scrapped > altogether and users are told to just use jfree or google charts. At its' > current state, it's just a tease of a tag. > Totally disagree that it's a tease of a tag. It may be to you because of the one feature it doesn't currently have that you need for your current project, but that doesn't make it a tease of a tag. And as I said before, if it doesn't do what you need currently, you need to A) submit a ticket, and B) look into using something like jFreeCharts directly. > > I'd make a serious wager that if CFCHART was developed in a way that it > would be a flagship tag, one that would keep railo and Adobe on its toes, > people would be installing OpenBD just for charting. > You'd have to elaborate a great deal on what else you think is missing for me to understand why in its current state it's so woefully inadequate. Sounds like you have a lot of feature requests to file. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
