ChartDirector - Upgrades - V4.0

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Create professional looking charts and drawings in PNG, JPEG, WBMP and GIF formats. ChartDirector is a charting component that supports pie, bar, line, area, high-low-close and combo charts. Its object oriented model allows software developers to control every chart's details and customizations. ChartDirector produces charts that are small in file size. A typical 200 x 200 pixels chart is only bytes.

Pricing

ChartDirector V4.0 - All Platforms - Upgrade

ChartDirector V4.0 - Windows / Linux / FreeBSD - Upgrade

Our prices include ComponentSource technical support and, for most downloadable products, an online backup and a FREE upgrade to the new version if it is released within 30 days of your purchase. Please contact us if you require any licensing option not listed above including volume licensing and previous versions.

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The complete list of New Features and old Release Notes for previous versions of ChartDirector are available in the Evals and Downloads Section of this product.

These are some of the new features included in Version 4.0.

• Meters and Gauges ChartDirector Ver 4.0 now supports angular and linear meters as additional chart types. Like all ChartDirector chart types, they are highly flexible and configurable, and support features such as CDML, metallic coloring, background zones, arbitrary text boxes and custom drawings, etc
• Donut Chart ChartDirector Ver 4.0 now supports Donut Charts, which are similar to Pie Charts but use donuts instead of pies
• FinanceChart with Source Code ChartDirector Ver 4.0 introduces a new FinanceChart object for building complex financial charts easily (such as financial charts with plenty of technical indicators) Whereas one can create complex financial charts even in previous versions of ChartDirector, the indicator charts need to be created one by one and combined using MultiChart. Also, only basic technical indicators are built-in, and the developer often needs to write code to compute more complex technical indicators from the basic building blocks
• XY Vector Chart Layer ChartDirector Ver 4.0 introduces a new XY layer type - Vector Chart Layer. This layer draws data symbols at arbitrary positions like a scatter chart, but the symbols are arrows with variable lengths and directions. Vector chart layers are most useful to visualize various types of flow and movements (such as wind and water flow), and for visualizing vector fields (eg. electromagnetic fields)
• Bar Shapes ChartDirector Ver 4.0 now supports bar chart layers with bars of cylindrical or arbitrary polygon shapes. Both convex polygons (triangles, hexagons) and concave polygons (star shapes, cross shapes) are supported. ChartDirector comes with many built-in shapes. Developers can also use customs shapes by specifying an array of numbers as the coordinates of the polygon vertices
• Overlapping Bars In previous version of ChartDirector, one may create bar chart layers with overlapping bars by using negative bar gaps. However, the bar overlapping order is always from right to left. In ChartDirector Ver 4.0, there is now an API designed to allow overlapping bars to be created easily, with configurable overlapping order
• Symbols Enhancements In previous versions of ChartDirector, built-in symbols include rectangles, diamond shapes, triangles, circles and cross shapes built from lines. ChartDirector Ver 4.0 enhances built-in symbols support to include regular polygons with arbitrary number of sizes, stars with arbitrary number of points, and cross shapes with configurable thickness and orientation. Furthermore, ChartDirector now supports user defined arbitrary polygonal shapes by using an array of numbers as the coordinates of the polygon vertices
• Multi-Color Box-Whisker Chart Layer In previous version of ChartDirector, each box-whisker chart layer can only have 1 main color for the box. Multi-color box-whisker Charts will need to be created by splitting up the data into multiple box-whisker chart layers. ChartDirector Ver 4.0 now has built-in support for multi-color box-whisker layers, allow this type of charts to be created easily
• Improved Gantt Charts Due to the enhancements in the Box-Whisker Chart Layer and various other improvements, it is much easier to draw sophisticated gantt charts in ChartDirector Ver 4.0. ChartDirector now includes sample code demonstrating gantt charts with multiple colors, multiple layers, and with milestone symbols

Features

• Fast, Flexible, Network Friendly, Lightweight, Easy to Use, ChartDirector is a charting and graphics component for web servers and for embedding in applications
• Server Oriented: ChartDirector is specially designed to operate on the server side. It handles multiple concurrent requests quickly, while its' lightweight design consumes only a small amount of the system resources
• Flexible: ChartDirector models charts as objects hierarchies, consisting of title objects, legend objects, axis objects, data set objects, etc. Their properties are controllable through the ChartDirector API, providing you flexibility to design the charts you want
• ChartDirector employs a layering architecture. You may combine different types of layers to create any arbitrary charts. By supporting alpha transparency coloring, bottom layers remain visible even if covered by top layers
• ChartDirector even includes a general-purpose graphics API, so you can add annotations, custom text, shapes and images, decorating your charts in custom ways. It is possible to use ChartDirector as a general-purpose graphics library
• Web friendly: ChartDirector produces charts that are very small in file size - a key benefit for web applications. A typical 200 x 200 chart is only 500 - 2K bytes. With the small file sizes, you can include many charts in your web page without worrying about download times
• Lightweight: With a small footprint and small memory requirements, Chart Director is easy to redistribute and deploy
• Easy to use: Well-designed API allows charts to be produced with just a few lines of code
• To make things even easier to use, ChartDirector includes comprehensive documentation, with step-by-step tutorials and numerous sample code
• Browser friendly: ChartDirector supports PNG, JPEG, WBMP and alternative GIF. No Java or ActiveX controls are required. You can even read ChartDirector charts in mobile electronic devices and WAP phones
• Unicode Support: By supporting UTF8 (Unicode) text strings, ChartDirector can draw charts with characters from multiple languages
• Multi-Platform: ChartDirector API is available in ASP/COM/VB, .NET, Java, PHP, Perl, Python and C++. ChartDirector for ASP/COM/VB and .NET runs on Windows. ChartDirector for PHP, Perl, Python and C++ runs on Windows/Linux/FreeBSD (i386) and Solaris (Sparc). ChartDirector for Java is in pure Java and runs on Java SE 1.2 or above.