[jQuery] Re: jqPlot - New charting plugin

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Leonello

I've made significant updates to the jqPlot plotting plugin: data
tooltips, rotated axis text, customizable date formatters, vertical
and horizontal bar charts and many other features.  Visit the home
page, http://www.jqplot.com/ or the project page, 
http://www.bitbucket.org/cleonello/jqplot/
if you are interested.  There are a slew of dynamically generated unit
tests and examples at http://www.jqplot.com/tests/ also.


On Apr 10, 4:36 am, Chris Leonello chris.leone...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've added an examples page demonstrating some of the current features
 ofjqPlot.  It is here:

 http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/examples.html

 Note, it doesn't demonstrate how to create a plugin forjqPlot.  I'll
 get to that too.

 On Apr 8, 10:32 pm, Ralph Whitbeck ralph.whitb...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hey Chris,

  So the difference betweenjqPlotand Flot is thatjqPlotis extensible or
  that your plugin will take plugins of it's own?

  That's pretty cool if I got that right.

  Are there other differences?  CanjqPlotdo the same examples as 
  Flot's?http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

  Ralph

  On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Chris Leonello 
  chris.leone...@gmail.comwrote:

   Hi,

   I'd like to announcejqPlot, a new charting plugin for jQuery.  jqPlot
   was inspired by Flot, but has a more extensible plugin like
   architecture.  For example, logarithmic axes are supported through a
   logAxes plugin renderer.

   There is a loose coupling between user inputs, data handling, and
   drawing of the chart objects.  All graph elements are created through
   renderers.  This means that, independent of thejqPlotcore code, a
   new renderer to e.g. draw spider graphs can be written and plugged in.

   ThejqPlothome page can be found here::

  http://code.google.com/p/jqplot/

   Documentation is here:

  http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/

   and I've set up a discussion group at:
  http://groups.google.com/group/jqplot-users

  jqPlotis fully functional, but is still under heavy development.
   There may be bugs and not all features are implemented yet.  Some of
   the currentjqPlotfeatures:

   * Line/scatter graphs.
   * Customizable line markers and line styles.
   * Dual x/y axis support.
   * Logarithmic x/y axis support (through plugin).
   * Axis customizations including turning off tick marks and sprintf
   style tick label formatting.
   * Chart title, legend and grid formating and customization.

   Features I'm currently working on:

   * Better, stronger, faster documentation.
   * Automatic trend line calculation.
   * Bar/Column charts.
   * Hi lo close (candlestick) charts.
   * Bubble charts.
   * Interactive features including highlighting and event support.

   Take a look.  Give it a try.  Let me know what you think.  All
   comments, criticisms and feedback are welcome.




[jQuery] Re: jqPlot - New charting plugin

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Leonello

I've added an examples page demonstrating some of the current features
of jqPlot.  It is here:

http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/examples.html

Note, it doesn't demonstrate how to create a plugin for jqPlot.  I'll
get to that too.

On Apr 8, 10:32 pm, Ralph Whitbeck ralph.whitb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey Chris,

 So the difference between jqPlot and Flot is that jqPlot is extensible or
 that your plugin will take plugins of it's own?

 That's pretty cool if I got that right.

 Are there other differences?  Can jqPlot do the same examples as 
 Flot's?http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

 Ralph

 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Chris Leonello 
 chris.leone...@gmail.comwrote:





  Hi,

  I'd like to announce jqPlot, a new charting plugin for jQuery.  jqPlot
  was inspired by Flot, but has a more extensible plugin like
  architecture.  For example, logarithmic axes are supported through a
  logAxes plugin renderer.

  There is a loose coupling between user inputs, data handling, and
  drawing of the chart objects.  All graph elements are created through
  renderers.  This means that, independent of the jqPlot core code, a
  new renderer to e.g. draw spider graphs can be written and plugged in.

  The jqPlot home page can be found here::

 http://code.google.com/p/jqplot/

  Documentation is here:

 http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/

  and I've set up a discussion group at:
 http://groups.google.com/group/jqplot-users

  jqPlot is fully functional, but is still under heavy development.
  There may be bugs and not all features are implemented yet.  Some of
  the current jqPlot features:

  * Line/scatter graphs.
  * Customizable line markers and line styles.
  * Dual x/y axis support.
  * Logarithmic x/y axis support (through plugin).
  * Axis customizations including turning off tick marks and sprintf
  style tick label formatting.
  * Chart title, legend and grid formating and customization.

  Features I'm currently working on:

  * Better, stronger, faster documentation.
  * Automatic trend line calculation.
  * Bar/Column charts.
  * Hi lo close (candlestick) charts.
  * Bubble charts.
  * Interactive features including highlighting and event support.

  Take a look.  Give it a try.  Let me know what you think.  All
  comments, criticisms and feedback are welcome.


[jQuery] Re: jqPlot - New charting plugin

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Leonello

 So the difference between jqPlot and Flot is that jqPlot is extensible or
 that your plugin will take plugins of it's own?

Both.  jqPlot is new from the ground up.  I did not base it off of the
Flot code.  I need to expand the documentation to show how to use it
and how to write plugins.  Coming soon!

 Are there other differences?  Can jqPlot do the same examples as 
 Flot's?http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

I will put together a example page, it will probably serve as good
documentation also.

There are other differences. Most of the coding was done in the last 2
weeks, so much of the feature set is not yet implemented.  For
example, Flot does bar graphs and zooming. I have implimented log
axes, with Flot you need a custom patch.  I do plan on implementing
many of the same features because I need them on my projects.

The main difference with Flot is the way the code is structured.  If
someone needs some custom capability, say striping rows on the grid,
it would be easy for the programmer to implement this as a custom grid
renderer plugin in jqPlot.  He wouldn't have to worry about updates in
the core code breaking his customizations.  His plugin could also (if
desired) be offered to everyone else as a new jqPlot feature without
having to be merged into jqPlot.

On Apr 8, 10:32 pm, Ralph Whitbeck ralph.whitb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey Chris,

 So the difference between jqPlot and Flot is that jqPlot is extensible or
 that your plugin will take plugins of it's own?

 That's pretty cool if I got that right.

 Are there other differences?  Can jqPlot do the same examples as 
 Flot's?http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

 Ralph

 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Chris Leonello 
 chris.leone...@gmail.comwrote:





  Hi,

  I'd like to announce jqPlot, a new charting plugin for jQuery.  jqPlot
  was inspired by Flot, but has a more extensible plugin like
  architecture.  For example, logarithmic axes are supported through a
  logAxes plugin renderer.

  There is a loose coupling between user inputs, data handling, and
  drawing of the chart objects.  All graph elements are created through
  renderers.  This means that, independent of the jqPlot core code, a
  new renderer to e.g. draw spider graphs can be written and plugged in.

  The jqPlot home page can be found here::

 http://code.google.com/p/jqplot/

  Documentation is here:

 http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/

  and I've set up a discussion group at:
 http://groups.google.com/group/jqplot-users

  jqPlot is fully functional, but is still under heavy development.
  There may be bugs and not all features are implemented yet.  Some of
  the current jqPlot features:

  * Line/scatter graphs.
  * Customizable line markers and line styles.
  * Dual x/y axis support.
  * Logarithmic x/y axis support (through plugin).
  * Axis customizations including turning off tick marks and sprintf
  style tick label formatting.
  * Chart title, legend and grid formating and customization.

  Features I'm currently working on:

  * Better, stronger, faster documentation.
  * Automatic trend line calculation.
  * Bar/Column charts.
  * Hi lo close (candlestick) charts.
  * Bubble charts.
  * Interactive features including highlighting and event support.

  Take a look.  Give it a try.  Let me know what you think.  All
  comments, criticisms and feedback are welcome.


[jQuery] Re: jqPlot - New charting plugin

2009-04-08 Thread Ralph Whitbeck
Hey Chris,

So the difference between jqPlot and Flot is that jqPlot is extensible or
that your plugin will take plugins of it's own?

That's pretty cool if I got that right.

Are there other differences?  Can jqPlot do the same examples as Flot's?
http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

Ralph

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Chris Leonello chris.leone...@gmail.comwrote:


 Hi,

 I'd like to announce jqPlot, a new charting plugin for jQuery.  jqPlot
 was inspired by Flot, but has a more extensible plugin like
 architecture.  For example, logarithmic axes are supported through a
 logAxes plugin renderer.

 There is a loose coupling between user inputs, data handling, and
 drawing of the chart objects.  All graph elements are created through
 renderers.  This means that, independent of the jqPlot core code, a
 new renderer to e.g. draw spider graphs can be written and plugged in.

 The jqPlot home page can be found here::

 http://code.google.com/p/jqplot/

 Documentation is here:

 http://www.hacknack.com/jqplot/

 and I've set up a discussion group at:
 http://groups.google.com/group/jqplot-users

 jqPlot is fully functional, but is still under heavy development.
 There may be bugs and not all features are implemented yet.  Some of
 the current jqPlot features:

 * Line/scatter graphs.
 * Customizable line markers and line styles.
 * Dual x/y axis support.
 * Logarithmic x/y axis support (through plugin).
 * Axis customizations including turning off tick marks and sprintf
 style tick label formatting.
 * Chart title, legend and grid formating and customization.

 Features I'm currently working on:

 * Better, stronger, faster documentation.
 * Automatic trend line calculation.
 * Bar/Column charts.
 * Hi lo close (candlestick) charts.
 * Bubble charts.
 * Interactive features including highlighting and event support.

 Take a look.  Give it a try.  Let me know what you think.  All
 comments, criticisms and feedback are welcome.