Con artists have likely gained admin access to the Client-side GChart project.

2009-09-28 Thread John Gunther
Con artists have likely gained admin access to the Client-side GChart project. Consequently, John Curtis Gunther is no longer administering the GChart project, or using the johncurtisgunther Google account. On two occasions, I have deleted the same inappropriate attachments posted on the GChart i

Re: GWT Standard theme ==> relatively much bigger IE buttons. Fix?

2009-09-12 Thread John Gunther
, that and a proper doctype). > > And if you want to have buttons look the same in all browsers, use the GWT > PushButton. > > HTH > > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > 2009/9/13 John Gunther > > > > > I've noticed that in IE buttons are n

Best ways to avoid unwelcome CSS cascade side effects?

2009-09-12 Thread John Gunther
I still recall an incredulous friend's exasperation: "I merely changed the value of "X" and, inexplicably, a completely different thing, "Y", now has a different value, too!" An obscure side effect of the CSS cascade? No. FORTRAN COMMON blocks. Here are two cases where I or those I know got burn

GWT Standard theme ==> relatively much bigger IE buttons. Fix?

2009-09-12 Thread John Gunther
I've noticed that in IE buttons are noticeably larger using the standard GWT CSS theme than these buttons are in other browsers. This makes consistent cross-browser sizing difficult for me. Just eyeballing I'd say the IE buttons are around 50% wider and taller than in the other browsers. For exa

Client-side GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, GWTCanvas-rendered, pie, line and area charts.

2009-06-30 Thread John Gunther
Client-side GChart lets you add charts to your GWT applications with nothing more than its 3,000 or so lines of Apache 2.0 licensed Java. GChart 2.5 adds a GWT canvas rendering option for better looking, more quickly drawn, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. Homepage (live-demo, down

GWTCanvas: Can I stroke a line that replaces what was there before with transparent pixels?

2009-06-13 Thread John Gunther
I'm using GWTCanvas in the gwt-incubator: Say I draw a filled red rectangle. Next, I create a line across that rectangle's diagonal. Now, I could set that line's color to green, blue, etc. and stroke and get a diagonal line. But I don't seem to be able to set that line's color to "transparent"

GWTCanvas vs gwt-canvas ?

2009-05-21 Thread John Gunther
What's the difference between GWTCanvas (in the incubator) and gwt- canvas? GWTCanvas: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/wiki/GWTCanvas gwt-canvas: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-canvas/ Overall, GWTCanvas is working well for me, but I'm a bit unhappy with its IE performance in

Re: GWTCanvas, in a nested Grid ==> buggy shifts in x-coordinates in IE7. Workarounds?

2009-05-07 Thread John Gunther
I found a simple, one-line workaround to this problem: DOM.setElementAttribute(gwtCanvas.getElement(), "align", "left"); More info about this is available at the issue 275 link referenced above. John On May 6, 10:36 pm, John Gunther wrote: > I filed an issue

Re: GWTCanvas, in a nested Grid ==> buggy shifts in x-coordinates in IE7. Workarounds?

2009-05-06 Thread John Gunther
=275 Pretty sure it's a GWTCanvas bug. In the issue above I provide code to reproduce it and a workaround. John On May 6, 12:43 am, John Gunther wrote: > I'm using a GWTCanvas widget inside of div inside of...inside of a > Grid widget inside of another Grid widget inside of..

GWTCanvas, in a nested Grid ==> buggy shifts in x-coordinates in IE7. Workarounds?

2009-05-05 Thread John Gunther
I'm using a GWTCanvas widget inside of div inside of...inside of a Grid widget inside of another Grid widget inside of...etc. It all works just fine in Firefox. But in IE7 I'm finding that, unless I left-align the innermost Grid cell, the x-coordinates are getting mangled, shifting the stuff dra

Re: Easiest way to package a library with optional features requiring a sub-library?

2009-04-26 Thread John Gunther
I'm late to reply as usual but really appreciate the info. Will likely revise my planned approach along the lines you have indicated to use deferred binding. On Apr 19, 7:46 pm, Thomas Broyer wrote: > On 18 avr, 07:42, JohnGunther wrote: > > > Thanks for the great info, sorry I didn't see your r

Re: How much slower is PRETTY mode?

2009-04-19 Thread John Gunther
A while back I was doing some performance tests and my recollection was, for that application, in FF2, it was something like 10% slower in PRETTY. This was with GWT 1.4. Not a lot, but just enough that I decided not to performance test in PRETTY. (The big performance impact in FF2 is if Firebug i

Re: Easiest way to package a library with optional features requiring a sub-library?

2009-04-17 Thread John Gunther
Thanks for the great info, sorry I didn't see your reply till now. I think your first idea would not work in my case because I would have to have code that referenced the optional module even if they didn't use it (there are "if (usingOptionModule) do this by invoking its methods otherwise do som

Re: Easiest way to package a library with optional features requiring a sub-library?

2009-04-05 Thread John Gunther
ion-speed, > you'd have to have the user edit your gwt.xml file to include only the > modules used by your code they rely on. > > Perhaps someone more familiar with the internals of the gwt compiler can > comment as to whether or not my explanation is correct or way off base. &

Easiest way to package a library with optional features requiring a sub-library?

2009-03-14 Thread John Gunther
Is it possible to release a GWT library that has optional features that require an additional library (written by someone else, packaged in a module JAR) but that does not require its users to load that additional library if they don't need the optional features? What is the best way to do this t

Re: Putting widget on top of gchart

2009-02-25 Thread John Gunther
fy my requirement at this time.  The functionality does seem > really useful though. > > Thanks. > -- > Paul Wang > > On Feb 20, 4:37 pm, John Gunther wrote: > > > I played around with GChartExample21.java (available in the chart > > gallery and linked to in my

Re: Putting widget on top of gchart

2009-02-20 Thread John Gunther
etCurve().getSymbol().setModelWidth(1.0); >             getCurve().getSymbol().setBorderWidth(0); > >             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfPoints; i++) { >                 getCurve().addPoint(i, Random.nextInt(4000)); >             } > >             getXAxis().setHa

Re: How to add points in chart by clicking on different areas of it?

2009-02-12 Thread John Gunther
GChart 2.41 is out and it incorporates a getMouseCoordinate method and adds an improved version of the simple line chart editor I linked to above to the "Chart Gallery" and live demo. Thanks for adding your request for these features to the GChart issue tracker. See this related post for more deta

Re: Client-side GChart 2.4 Released: Click events, pop-ups, selection brushes, etc.

2009-02-12 Thread John Gunther
C. Gunther http://gchart.googlecode.com On Feb 2, 12:52 pm, John Gunther wrote: > Thank-you, very glad you appreciate the new release. > > On Feb 2, 8:59 am, saurabh hirani wrote: > > > Checked out the page. I had used 2.3 and seeing pop up integration and > > on the fly edi

Re: Putting widget on top of gchart

2009-02-11 Thread John Gunther
I noticed this is your very first post to any Google forum. Welcome. GChart 2.4 has a built-in single point selection capability. Here's an example of how to use that: http://gchart.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/com/googlecode/gchart/client/package-summary.html#GChartExample21 To emulate multipl

Re: How to add points in chart by clicking on different areas of it?

2009-02-02 Thread John Gunther
Thank, good to know what you were trying to do. Unfortunately, there are not specific tools in GChart that do the drag-selection rectangle thing, or let you highlight more than a single point. There are "poor man's" ways to do similar things. You might let the user click in the upper left, then lo

Re: Client-side GChart 2.4 Released: Click events, pop-ups, selection brushes, etc.

2009-02-02 Thread John Gunther
artbigger and better. > > On Jan 28, 10:41 am, John Gunther wrote: > > > Client-sideGChartis an open source, 100% pure Java chart library for > > GWT supporting line, pie, and bar charts. > > > With version 2.4,GChartnow tracks mouse activities over the chart, > &

Re: How to add points in chart by clicking on different areas of it?

2009-01-30 Thread John Gunther
te the pixelY-to-cartesianY min/max swap double y = getYAxis().getAxisMax()*(1-yPx/getYChartSize()) + getYAxis().getAxisMin()*(yPx/getYChartSize()); // add point, using the model units: getCurve().addPoint(insertionPoint++, x, y); HTH, John C. Gunther http://gchart.g

Re: gwt-dnd / gwt-log / gwt-voices - Status Update

2009-01-28 Thread John Gunther
That's good to hear, and BTW, congrats on the Google gig. But didn't you already work for Google? Maybe they just gave you a massive raise. Best GWT tip I ever got was to use Firebug--thanks for that one, and keep them coming. John On Jan 28, 4:34 pm, Fred Sauer wrote: > Hi- > > Some of you may

Re: Client-side GChart 2.4 Released: Click events, pop-ups, selection brushes, etc.

2009-01-28 Thread John Gunther
Appreciate the positive feedback, thanks for testing it out, looking forward to your report. On Jan 28, 5:40 am, doopa wrote: > Good work John. Congratulations on the new release. I'll be testing > this later and will be sure to update you. > > Thanks, > > niall >

Client-side GChart 2.4 Released: Click events, pop-ups, selection brushes, etc.

2009-01-27 Thread John Gunther
Client-side GChart is an open source, 100% pure Java chart library for GWT supporting line, pie, and bar charts. With version 2.4, GChart now tracks mouse activities over the chart, and selects points, displays pop-ups, and fires off click events accordingly. HomePage: http://gchart.googlecode.c

Re: How to add points in chart by clicking on different areas of it?

2009-01-27 Thread John Gunther
Client-side GChart 2.4 was just released today, It supports click events, so that might help you. Unfortunately, there are still no client to model coordinate conversion functions. Please consider adding a request for this feature to the GChart issue tracker. In the meantime, looking at the setCli

Re: Printing Gchart

2009-01-07 Thread John Gunther
uess work; if anyone has real experience with printable pages and is willing to share that experience to help improve GChart's "printability", I'd appreciate that. John On Jan 7, 12:13 am, John Gunther wrote: > In Firefox 2, if you select File, Print Preview, then Page Setup

Re: Printing Gchart

2009-01-06 Thread John Gunther
In Firefox 2, if you select File, Print Preview, then Page Setup, then Format&Options, and make sure that "Print Background (color and images)" is checked, I see the live demo page more or less correctly in Print Preview with this checked. But lots of stuff is missing (including axis lines) if thi

Re: Vertical annotation text in GChart

2009-01-02 Thread John Gunther
Couple of things that may help you: 1) To allow more space for long axis labels and thus avoid the "overwriting" problem you mentioned in the first place, you can explicitly set axis label thickness via Client-side GChart's setAxisLabelThickness method: http://gchart.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc

Re: "static method wrap(Element) conflicts" compiler error. Why?

2008-12-17 Thread John Gunther
ice message in the lines of: > "GWT 1.5.x requires Java 1.5 or better. Compile failed!" > > -jason > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:26 PM, John Gunther wrote: > > > > > Using GWT 1.5.2, and starting with this class: > > > public class NamedHTML extends HTML imp

Re: UI alignment collapses with GChart

2008-12-17 Thread John Gunther
By default, Client-side GChart's axis min/max are data determined, which I believe is what is causing the "collapsing with no data" that you mentioned. To stop that, explicitly set axis min/max via the setAxisMax and setAxisMin methods, as described here: http://gchart.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/d

"static method wrap(Element) conflicts" compiler error. Why?

2008-11-10 Thread John Gunther
Using GWT 1.5.2, and starting with this class: public class NamedHTML extends HTML implements HasName { public String getName() {return null;} public void setName(String name) {} } If I compile the above class in Eclipse with Project, Properties, Java Compiler, "Compiler complia

Re: gchart pop-up on data point

2008-11-03 Thread John Gunther
Yes. Just use the setAnnotationWidget method (and related methods like setAnnotationLocation) in a manner similar to how you used addTick with widget arguments.. See the Client-side GChart javadocs for details: http://gchart.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/com/googlecode/gchart/client/GChart.Curve.P

Re: GChart and Maven 2

2008-10-14 Thread John Gunther
Appreciate the complement. I understand that a Maven2 repo makes it easier for Maven2 users to include GChart as one of their project's libraries, but I have not a clue as to how to set up a Maven2 repo. So, unless its really easy to set up a repo if you've never used Maven2 before, or unless so

Re: GChart: Can i have gray dotted gridlines and solid axes?

2008-10-14 Thread John Gunther
Sorry, you cannot style a client-side GChart's gridlines. You can use the setGridColor method, which may help do part of what you are looking for: http://gchart.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/com/googlecode/gchart/client/GChart.html#setGridColor%28java.lang.String%29 If you must have dotted gridl

Client-side GChart 2.3: Now canvas plug-compatible for much faster line charts

2008-10-05 Thread John Gunther
Client-side GChart users can now produce order of magnitude faster (and much better looking) solidly connected line charts by using the new LINE_CANVAS symbol type, and bolting on (by implementing the new GChartCanvasLite interface) an external GWT canvas library. The biggest performance improvem

Best GWT canvas (vector graphics) library?

2008-10-01 Thread John Gunther
I've recently used the GWTCanvas widget from the GWT incubator (nothing fancy, just to draw lines--will likely do more canvas stuff later, though) and so far so good. However, a Google search shows there are quite a few GWT canvas libraries out there. Wondering if I'm missing out on a better libr

Re: Poll: GWT 1.4.62 vs 1.5 -- what are you using? what are your plans?

2008-10-01 Thread John Gunther
Lot more data points now. Pattern is quite clear: everyone is either migrated already or will migrate soon. Really increases my confidence in 1.5.2 to see so many adopting it so quickly. Until Google commissions a real scientific adoption rate survey similar to the one Adobe did for Flash, this w

Re: Poll: GWT 1.4.62 vs 1.5 -- what are you using? what are your plans?

2008-09-25 Thread John Gunther
stable now, but even when it wasn't, most > problems were point issues for particular applications that could be > temporarily worked around. > > I'm sure you have your reasons, but the web moves quickly, sticking > with older technology for a year much less 4 seems the bigger

Need to draw straight lines fast in a GWT chart library

2008-09-24 Thread John Gunther
My library, Client-side GChart, doesn't render solidly connected, large-sized, line charts quickly enough for at least one user (probably because it draws them with a series of rectangular HTML elements). Anyone have any suggestions for drawing reasonably good-looking straight lines fast that wo

Re: Client-side GChart 2.2: Sparklines and better/faster solidly filled line charts.

2008-09-24 Thread John Gunther
y=mouseY-dy; > // transform in chart coordinates > x=xmin+x*(xmax-xmin)/getXChartSize(); > y=ymin+y*(ymax-ymin)/getYChartSize(); > I'm on the right way or there is a simpler method? > thanks > Albert > ps Excuse me for m

Poll: GWT 1.4.62 vs 1.5 -- what are you using? what are your plans?

2008-09-22 Thread John Gunther
Trying to get a sense of how quickly the migration to GWT 1.5 from 1.4.62 will (or has already) occurred by asking: 1) Are you using GWT 1.5 right now? 2) Are you using 1.4.62 right now? 3) Do you expect to be using GWT 1.5 six months from now? 4) Do you expect to be using GWT 1.4.62 six months f

Client-side GChart 2.2: Sparklines and better/faster solidly filled line charts.

2008-09-22 Thread John Gunther
Client-side GChart is an open source GWT library that supports bar, line, and pie charts, and yet adds nothing but its ~2,000 lines of Java to your application's list of dependencies: http://gchart.googlecode.com This 2.2 release adds: * A new LINE symbol type for faster/better solidly connecte

Re: Invisible outer Grid triggers screen repaint problem in IE7. Any workarounds?

2008-09-22 Thread John Gunther
Ian, Sorry for the delayed response, missed your re-post. My recollection is I tried "visibility: visible" without the "visibility: hidden" first, and it seemed that IE7 was smart enough to realize I hadn't changed a thing, and to ignore me. Just in case you are curious to reproduce this on your

Re: GChart - display issues. Sparklines

2008-09-21 Thread John Gunther
Just released GChart 2.2 which fixes this problem by letting you precisely size the space allocated for chart decorations (title, footnotes, axis labels and legend) around the chart's plot area. See the first item in these 2.2 release notes for details and a link to an example "no space added" GC

Re: Best solution for client-side graphing in GWT?

2008-09-13 Thread John Gunther
Nathan, Though Client-side GChart doesn't have direct event support, it does support Widget-based annotations, which can be used to do the same kinds of things. For example, by adding a transparent Image widget as an annotation that is centered on a particular data point (via the setAnnotationWi