A new release of SimpleChart has been made available today - v2.2. You can find more details of
the release on the version history page.
What's New in v2.2...
- Unicode support
SimpleChart now has full Unicode support allowing developers to take full
advantage of international character sets on their charts.
- Manual Unit Axis Increments
The new UnitAxisIncrementMode and UnitAxisIncrement properties let you set your own increment level for the unit axis instead of relying on SimpleChart to calculate them.
- Improved Default Color Schemes
We've improved the default colors generated for bar and line charts so that your charts will look better using default color settings.
- New LineColorMode property
The new LineColorMode now lets SimpleChart generate line colors automatically for you. In previous version you had to specify a line color when creating a line series.
- New ChartRectBorderColor property
It is now possible to change the color of the chart rectangle border (the border around the plot area adjacent to the tick marks) using the ChartRectBorderColor property. This property is used in conjunction with another new property which is used to show/hide the chart rectangle: ShowChartRect.
- Improved ValueFormat Functionality
The ValueFormat property's behaviour has been improved and enhanced in the following ways:
When applying the value format to unit axis values SimpleChart will now ensure that only unique values are displayed. Previously, it was possible to apply a value format which would result in unit axis values being truncated such that the same value might be displayed more than once, resulting in a confusing unit scale. This change in behaviour makes it possible to use the ValueFormat property to restrict the number unit labels shown by, for example, not showing the digits to the right of the decimal point.
Also, SimpleChart now uses the system locale to determine how to display thousands seperators and decimal points. It does this by checking the system locale and setting the DecimalSeparatorSymbol property and ThousandSeparatorSymbol property to the localised values. If you wish you can override these values by applying your own settings (for examples see the ValueFormat help page in the SimpleChart help file).
- New AxisVisiblityMode property
The new AxisVisibilityMode property lets you show hide the axis lines on a chart
- New StartAngle property for pie charts
The new StartAngle lets you adjust the angle at which SimpleChart draws the first pie slice in your chart.
- New PieLegendDisplayMode property for pie charts
The new PieLegendDisplayMode gives you more control over how the legend is displayed. For example, you can now choose to display the item label along with the value and even the percentage.
NOTE: If you are updating code to work with SimpleChart v2.2 from v2.1 please make sure to read the section titled 'Updating Code for v2.2' in the SimpleChart help file.
All versions of SimpleChart available on the site have been updated to v2.2.
To get the new demo version just download the demo again, uninstall your current version and install v2.2
If
you have already purchased SimpleChart v2.0 or v2.1 then you can use the
upgrades page to get v2.2 at no cost. Simply enter your license key
on the upgrades page and download the version of SimpleChart labelled as v2.2.
The SimpleChart Team
Imagio Technology Ltd.
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