December 27th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Holiday greetings and our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year!
During the last year AnyChart has made another big step forward. We have successfully implemented new technologies and improved our products. The family of our customers has grown up, as well as our team (new departments have been opened this year). We are sure that our charts will keep delighting your eye, and that AnyChart is a part of the future of web and charting technologies.
Let the new year be productive and joyful for all of us. And to get into the festive mood, take a look at the picture of a dragon sleigh:
© Vladstudio
December 26th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Today we have released AnyChart Stock 1.6.0. This version includes the following changes:
New features
- The ability to specify Z-Index for series to define custom display order for regular series and technical indicators series. Read more about this feature at Series common settings: Z-Index.
- The ability to pin a certain value on a value scale to ensure its visibility. For more information, please see: Y-Axes Settings: Pinned Value.
Bug fixes
- Dashed line annotation slow rendering bug has been fixed.
- The fieldType property in the object model is no longer ignored after calling the applySettingsChanges method.
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/
December 12th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
We are proud that our components are succesully used in a wide variety of industries. The success story we are presenting today is about Signatrol Ltd – a company that has been supplying data loggers since 1994. Their products are used in various areas: warehousing, transportation, food preparation, building management, environmental monitoring of offices, schools, museums.
Signatrol created a low cost wireless monitoring solution — spYdaq. It is a system comprising of a number of radio transmitting sensors that measure parameters (temperature, humidity, voltage, etc.) and send them securely by using a license free radio network to a central Basestation. The system has an ability to store information on the dedicated website. And to visualise the data, AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts component was chosen.
The challenge was:
- To make an online visualization of data obtained from a number of different sensors over long periods of time.
- To provide comfortable navigation through complex graphs.
- To integrate graphs into PHP sourced pages, with data obtained from MySQL databases.
AnyStock was used because:
- It allows for visualizing large sets of time-based data by creating fast and easy updatable charts.
- AnyStock supports advanced interactivity and navigation options. Navigation through data is also facilitated by custom text labels and a smart legend.
- Due to simple XML interface, AnyStock is compatible with different kinds of web technologies and database management systems, including PHP and MySQL.
You can enjoy the full success story here:
Other stories can be found here: https://www.anychart.com/company/success_stories.php
November 21st, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
We are happy to publish a new success story, this time about AnyChart and Independent Data Services (IDS) – a company from the upstream oil and gas industry.
IDS, founded in 1995, is the world’s largest provider of web-based reporting and analysis services to the upstream oil and gas industry. IDS’ latest release — DataNet2 — makes full use of Web 2.0-compliant technologies and WITSML feeds to capture and deliver data via the web to unlimited users. The DataNet2 suite of products includes VisNet — a back-end query engine which extracts knowledge from every part of the DataNet2 system.
The challenge was:
- To visualize the data returned by VisNet (KPI’s, benchmarks) and create configurable and interactive charts.
- To ensure that all visualizations would be customizable, matching IDS’ high standards.
- To implement a variety of charts.
AnyChart’s charting technology was used to generate visualizations for VisNet because:
- The component allows for the creation of advanced and good-looking animated charts.
- AnyChart is very flexible and provides a lot of features, which made it a good choice for IDS’ project.
- The AnyChart library includes a wide range of charts which is constantly growing. Currently VisNet supports Bar, Column, Pie, Line, and Scatter graphs, but more will be added.
You can enjoy the success story here:
Other stories can be found here: https://www.anychart.com/company/success_stories.php
November 15th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Our component for building Gantt charts has been updated. The new version – AnyGantt 4.2.0 – contains the following changes:
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anygantt7/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/
Download for registered customers: https://www.anychart.com/customer_area/
November 14th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
Today we are glad to announce the release of AnyChart 6.0.5. We are constantly improving the HTML5 engine, and soon it will become fully functional. Besides that, we keep adding new features and refining various aspects of AnyChart, including the smallest details (which, as we believe, are never insignificant) to make it more and more convenient to use.
In AnyChart 6.0.5 we have introduced a number of important improvements:
Important note: Because of the bug in Flash Player 11.0.1.152 Radar and Polar charts are displayed incorrectly. If you use any of 5.x or 6.x AnyChart versions with this version of Flash Player, please, switch either to AnyChart 6.0.5 or to Flash Player 11.1.102.55 (or later).
For more bug fixes and version history, see: http://anychart7.com/products/anychart/history/
Trial download is available at: https://www.anychart.com/download/
Please, feel free to contact us if any questions arise. We appreciate our clients and work hard to anticipate their needs and keep pace with the latest demands of the industry, making our charts even more flexible and attractive.
October 30th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
AnyStock 1.5.1 update is available for download at our site. It includes some significant changes:
Bug fixes
Improvements
- onAnnotationRemove event now returns not only the ID of a removed annotation, but also this annotation as an object — a useful improvement for implementing an “Undo” feature.
- Full compatibility with Flex 4.5 Mobile SDK — you can use AnyStock SWC in your iOs or Android Flex projects.
- Range preset buttons behavior improved, particularly when you sync two different chart objects at one page.
Documentation updates
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/
October 26th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
AnyChart Team has found in Flash Player 11.0.1.152 a very weird bug that doesn’t manifest itself in the Debug version of Flash Player, but ruins math in the regular version, so we had to debug it in the non-debug version: using ExternalInterface and JavaScript console.
Bug description
In the regular version of Flash Player 11.0.1.152 the following expression:
1/Math.abs(0)
is evaluated as -Infinity, but in the Debug version it is (as anyone expects): Infinity
Reproduce
Here is a sample code you can use to reproduce this issue:
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
public class MagicWorld extends Sprite {
public function MagicWorld() {
ExternalInterface.call("alert", "1/Math.abs(0) = " + (1/Math.abs(0)).toString());
}
}
}
As soon as you have done this — compile and run the sample in the Debug and Regular versions, and you will see the difference.
The bug has been reported to Adobe: Bug#3011557
The test sample: http://6.anychart.com/temp/bug301157/index.html
October 12th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
We are developing the HTML5 version of AnyChart using JavaScript, but our team takes an active interest in web development news – and now, of course, one of the main events is the new language Dart.
Dart is a web programming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, 2011 October 10-12. The goal of Dart is to replace JavaScript as the main built-in scripting language in web browsers. Dart is intended to solve JavaScript’s problems while offering better performance, the ability “to be more easily tooled for large-scale projects” and better security features.
Our lead developer Alex Batsuev is eager to become one of the first evangelists of Dart. He has faced some problems with building Google Dart on Mac OS X Lion. Please, check out the instruction how to do that in his blog: batsuev.com
October 4th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Developing the HTML5 version of AnyChart, our team has not only mastered a variety of tools and utilities, but also created a number of new ones – including Ctags for JavaScript based on Google Closure Compiler (gjstags).
Ctags is a program that generates an index (or tag) file of names found in source and header files of various programming languages. These tags allow definitions to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. Alternatively, there is also an output mode that generates a cross reference file, listing information about various names found in a set of language files in human-readable form.
Gjstags developed by AnyChart team supports classes, enums, interfaces, and so on. It is based on Google Closure Compiler, works under Mac OS X or Linux and is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
Anyone interested in gjstags can download it here: https://github.com/AnyChart/gjstags and is free to use it in any way.
