Hi mwjames,
As one of the original authors of jqPlot, I have to say this sounds great!
I'm looking forward to seeing the new code in action.
-Yaron
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:55 PM, James HK <jamesin.hongkon...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing MW 1.19beta we had some trouble with the current jqPlot
> JavaScript implementation and we decided for a bold move and do some
> major re-work [1] of the current jqPlot Bar and jqPlot Pie chart which
> resulted in the following changes:
>
> The SRF jqPlot module now requires the ResourceLoader to work with.
>
> jqPlot, D3 and JitGraph now share similar parameter definitions and
> PHP methods which should keep maintenance easier.
>
> jqPlot now comes with 4 chart/scale renderer (pie, bar, line, and donut)
>
> ## Technology change
>
> Beginning with SRF 1.8 inline JavaScript is generally discouraged in
> favour of MW's ResourceLoader module therefore all JavaScript have
> been transferred to corresponding resource files (ext.srf.jqplot....).
> jqPlot data objects are using mw.config.set/mw.config.get to get
> access to embedded data objects.
>
> ## New features
>
> The parameter [renderer] has been introduced to select available
> jqPlot renderer (pie, donut graph and bar, line graph). (D3 uses a
> similar method now)
>
> All jqPot formats can use the parameter [charttext] to display
> explanatory text at the bottom of each chart.
>
> The parameter [chartclass] can be used to assign an additional css
> class to change the position or add/change margin settings of a chart
> (float:right/float:left etc.).
>
> The parameter [valueformat] has been introduced to allow individual
> value formatting. (%d a signed integer is the default setting but %.2f
> would round numbers to 2 digits after decimal point and can be
> combined notions like EUR %.2f, $ %.2f )
>
> Themes (parameter [theme]) now can be customized using jqPlot
> themeEngine and are available for all jqPlot renderer in
> ext.srf.jqplot.themes.js. A colorscheme (parameter[colorscheme]) has
> been introduced using patterns from colorCombs and color scales
> developed by Cynthia Brewer. (D3 and jPlot share the same
> colorschemes).
>
> Other added parameters are [smoothlines], [highlighter], [ticklabels]
>
> An experimental new format (jqplotseries, SRF_jqPlotSeries.php) has
> been added as well allowing to combine numercial data sets and to be
> displayed as a chart series. Staked bar or line series are supported
> as well. The jqplotseries does work but need thorough testing and
> should not be used in production. (If you get in trouble with this
> module, please try to fixed yourself first.)
>
> ## Changes
> The split between JavaScript and PHP made changes necessary to ensure
> consistency with the data model and despite our efforts we tried to
> avoid any disruption of existing default behaviour but in some
> instances it could not have been avoided.
>
> The following jqPlot Pie parameters have been changed and could result
> in a slightly different display behaviour.
>
> [datalabeltype] has been deprecated and is replaced by [datalabels]
> which will have either none or 'percent','value', 'label' option
>
> [legendlocation] has been deprecated and is replaced by [chartlegend]
> which now combines the selection.
>
> The following jqPlot Bar parameters have been changed.
>
> [barcolor] has been deprecated and is replaced by chartcolor (a shared
> parameter with other chart modules)
>
> ## Plug-In
> The plug-in has been updated to version 1.0.0b2_r947.
>
> ## Unit tests
> SWM 1.7.1 and SRF 1.7.1 and MW 1.18, MW 1.19.0beta
>
> Chrome 11.0.700.3 and 17.0.963.66, IE 9, Mozilla/5.0, Firefox/3.6.23
>
> [1] https://github.com/mwjames/smw-srfjqplot
>
> A patch will be available for bugzilla later on.
>
> Cheers
>
> mwjames
>
>
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