March 15th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
The public roadmap for AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is now available at this page: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/roadmap/
There you can find the information about AnyChart Stock 1.1.0 – a new version that is coming April 15th with the following changes:
New features
- AnyChart Stock Flex component will be available, and all Flex developers will have access to the great features of AnyStock in a convenient manner. Full AnyStock Flex API will also be published.
- The end user will get the opportunity to use a variety of drawing tools such as Line segment, Ray, Discontinuous line, Vertical Line, Horizontal Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Trend channel, Andrew’s pitchfork, Fibonacci fan, Fibonacci arc, Fibonacci retracement, Fibonacci time-zones, Buy/Sell signals, Custom text labels and so on.
- It will be possible to use RangeArea, RangeSplineArea or RangeBar series types to visualize Bollinger Bands technical indicator. You will be able chose between two types of visualization: using two lines or using range based series.
- A new Boolean attribute named adjust_margins will be added to global time scale settings. This attribute will allow to add paddings that may be required when displaying Bar, RangeBar, OHLC or Candlestick series.
- Event markers appearance will become configurable. It will be possible to bind event markers to any field of series data provider.
Improvements
- The performance of mouse over the chart area will be sufficiently improved. Legends and tooltips will be updated faster.
- An improvement in range picker behavior will be made: input values and input masks will be internally trimmed.
Demos and help materials updates
- A default template with all the settings that are used in the inheritance process will be available in XML format.
- The full source code of AnyStock Technical Analysis Portal will be downloadable so that you could freely use it as a template for your project.
Bug fixes
- The current version of the component sometimes skips points while parsing CSV files – this bug will be fixed.
- In “PercentChanges” calculation mode of Y scales, negative values will be handled correctly.
- All interactive elements will correctly handle redrawing and update their focuses after data or event markers commits.
- The bug that in some conditions forces the chart to calculate maximum on scatter will be fixed.
- The external JavaScript method applySettingsChanges() is not able to switch data grouping on or off. This bug will be fixed.
- Incorrect work of the external JavaScript method removeEventMarkerGroup() will be fixed.
February 24th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Flash and Firefox have always had a lot of compatibility problems – for instance, Flash content can’t be printed in Firefox.
A long time ago we found a workaround and published it as a free library. Three years have passed, but the bug still exists, and the fix is still relevant.
So here it is – a small library that allows to achieve correct Flash content printing in Firefox:
http://code.google.com/p/flash-print-fix/
For example, that’s how a Flex application is printed in Firefox:
And that’s how it looks like with the fix applied:
The idea is very simple:
1. Get a PNG screenshot.
2. Encode the PNG file in base64 string.
3. Add a picture with src=”data:img/png;base64,…” mce_src=”data:img/png;base64,…” to the page.
4. In CSS, specify to hide Flash while printing and to show the picture:
@media screen.flashScreenshot { display: none; }
@media print.printableFlashObj { display: none; };
.flashScreenshot { display: block; border: 0; outline: none; }
February 16th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Don’t forget that we have a knowledgebase: https://www.anychart.com/kb
We have already written about it before: https://www.anychart.com/blog/2009/06/30/anychart-knowledge-base
We do our best to update it as and when necessary and recently have added a few articles:
AnyChart
AnyGantt
We want to note that this problem: Documentation doesn’t display properly in Internet Explorer 7 and later has lost relevance in AnyChart 5.1.2.5
P.S. We are very pleased that our customers often find a minute to thank us and we have eventually added a testimonials page: https://www.anychart.com/company/testimonials.php
Thanks to everybody who has spoken out or not.
February 15th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
During AnyGantt development, we have discovered a bug in the latest builds of Flash Player (existing since August 2010).
Here is a Flex example from the Adobe Help Resource Center:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=printing_5.html
That’s how everything looks like in the original:
And that’s what happens to it after printing:
A long and persistent debugging has led us to isolating and reproducing the bug. In the simplest view, everything comes down to the following pictures:
(an original)
(the same after printing)
The source code of the example can be downloaded from:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/attachment/68017/test_02_project_src.zip
The cause of the problem is the following: if the text in the Visual Objects tree has a parent object with “scrollRect”, there will be problems when printing to a bitmap.
The bug appeared supposedly in the version 10.1.82.76 of Adobe Flash Player, and it is also found in the current version (10.2).
We have submitted a bug report and now are waiting for the response:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-6167
February 2nd, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and it is estimated that Twitter has 190 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day.
Now the AnyChart team has a Twitter account too: http://twitter.com/AnyChart
There we share our plans and interesting links, announce new entries in this blog and updates of our website as soon as they appear. Follow up and be the first to learn the news!
January 27th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
On 26th of February AnyChart is proud to release version 5.1.2.5 of AnyChart Flash Charting Component with new JavaScript library methods, enhanced pie and donut charts labeling algorithm, extended external scroll interface and a lot of bugfixes. Please download the latest trial version from AnyChart Download Section.
- New: Chart Show and Hide methods
- Improvement: Pie labeling mechanism improved
- Improvement: JS Scroll interface extended
- Bug fix: JavaScript data manipulation and loosing changes
- Bug fix: “No data” message in Funnel and Treemap
- Bug fix: Memory Leaks in IE
- Bug fix: Point click in Pie charts return value
- Bug fix: Absolute Deviation threshold issues
- Bug fix: Pies and palettes
- Bug fix: Scroll behavior
- Bug fix: Tooltip cut off
- Bug fix: Logarithmic axis labeling
- Bug fix: AM/PM Date Time issue
- Bug fix: Negative values labeling
We hope you enjoy all these improvements and we’ll do our utmost to make AnyChart even better in future releases.
January 27th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
Today we introduce a beta version of AnyStock for Silverlight. AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is an XML/JSON Flash based financial charting solution, which we have recently launched. And now it is also our first component for Microsoft Silverlight – an application framework similar to Adobe Flash, designed for writing and running rich Internet applications. We invite everybody to participate in our beta testing program and receive a discount upon release. Please check out the demo portals:
And see the beta testing page: https://www.anychart.com/beta/silverlight/
December 25th, 2010 by Margaret Skomorokh
Best wishes for the holidays and for health and happiness throughout the coming year. We hope this year you found our products convenient and comfortable and assure that you will like them even more the next one – before the New Year’s Eve we will yet gladden you by news and announcements.Among AnyChart’s clients there are market leaders and startups without websites, our OEM or SAAS partners and enterprise solution developers; some are now taking ocean-facing baths and some are being filled up with snow. They have different views and ideals, but all of us are united by the love for beauty and aesthetics even in such a serious field as business, financial and statistical graphics. Happy Charting Everybody!
P.S.: Cheshire kitten by one of our favorite artists Vlad Gerasimov: http://www.vladstudio.com
December 14th, 2010 by Margaret Skomorokh
We are happy to announce the availability of AnyStock, a cross-platform tool for implementing stock and financial charts in custom web and desktop applications. Perhaps, creating of AnyChart Stock has taken more time than anticipated, but we are proud of its quality and of the results achieved.
The component includes a wide variety of technical indicators and financial chart types, all of them being combinable. The ability to review long term and large data sets can be handled with scroll, pan, and zoom controls. Adding news events – analyst opinions, insider trading, dividends, and key developments – helps to analyze information.
It should be especially noted that the Resources section contains countless application samples and adjustments for JSON as well as XML, so developing and tuning charts in your application will be really easy.
Some of the key features are:
Show Significant Events Using Special Markers
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One of the most important features of AnyStock are Event Markers – a special type of chart markers that are created to provide best experience in showing Key Developments, Dividends, Splits, Insider Transactions, Analyst Opinion Changes or any other events on Financial charts. Event markers can be bound to a chart series or to the timeline. |
Real-Time Data Streaming and Data Manipulations
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A full feature set for creating real-time streaming and data manipulation applications is available. The JavaScript library coming with the component has methods that allow adding, updating, removing or inserting new data points or range of points. All the operations run fast and smart and allow setting new data without reloading the chart. |
Fully Configurable Localization
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The component allows localizing the appearance of date, time and numbers to suit the region’s language and cultural peculiarities. To make the localization even easier, a special utility was created that allows obtaining the required regional configuration in a matter of minutes. |
Advanced Interactivity
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AnyChart Stock is fully interactive. All of its navigation elements meet all the industry’s usability standards and are very comfortable in use. |
Attractive and Flexible Visual Settings
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All the visual elements are configured to provide the best user experience: mild and clear colors, intuitive controls, and so on. Almost every part of a chart can be quickly customized. |
We hope that you will appreciate the component. If you have any additional questions, our Support and Sales teams are ready to help you.
Please download the trial version: https://www.anychart.com/download/
And visit the product page: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/overview/
June 25th, 2010 by Margaret Skomorokh
Robin Wauters from TechCrunch writes:
Last March, Adobe and Google jointly announced that Flash Player would soon come built in to the latter’s Chrome browser, eliminating the need for users to download, install and update it separately.
On Thursday evening, Google released Chrome 5.0.375.86 to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows, with a fix for a number of security issues. More importantly, the integrated Flash Player has now been enabled by default.
As Stephen Shankland over at CNET points out, built-in Flash was previously only available in the developer and beta releases of the speedy WebKit-based browser, and the release to the Stable channel means the integrated plug-in is now available in its mainstream version.
The update comes a mere two days after Google re-enabled the integrated Flash Player plug-in by default in the Beta channel after disabling it for some time.
Not only is Google giving Adobe’s Flash technology another vote of confidence (Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile, which was announced earlier this week, will be rolled out on Android 2.2 phones first), but the integration also means any updates to Flash Player will be delivered directly via Google Chrome’s updating system, ultimately minimizing security risks that tend to surface when one uses outdated software and components.