Scale Breaks
The component introduces scale breaks with controllable position, scale break inflate and style (wave, straight, zig zag and scientific). There are two types of scale breaks:
- Automatic Scale Breaks - automatic scale breaks allow you to dynamically analyze gaps in data and collapse parts of the chart x, y or depth axis so that the data becomes more readable.
- Custom Scale Breaks - custom scale breaks allow you to collapse user defined ranges on the chart axis. You can mix automatic and custom scale breaks on every chart axis.
Automatic Chart Axis Labels Orientation
The component will automatically orient labels in 3D to the scale ruler orientation when you rotate the chart thus making it more readable. You can also instruct the component to prevent texts from flipping.
Automatic Gauge Axis Labels Orientation
The component will automatically orient gauge axis labels relatively to their position on the radial or linear gauge ruler. You can also instruct the component to prevent texts from flipping.
Automatic Pie Data Label Layout
The component will automatically layout the pie labels so that they do not overlap.
Dynamic image map in AJAX mode
In Q1 2008 Nevron web components now support a dynamic image map that can be automatically updated at the client on every callback. The developer has control over when the image map is generated when is and updated on the client. The dynamic image map allows client side filtering of mouse events and prevents unnecessary callbacks for server side hit testing.
Controller-Tools Architecture in AJAX mode
Controller and tools are added to the Nevron client side JavaScript framework. All mouse events are now processed by the controller, which allows for implementing complex mouse handling logic and combining callback event processing with pure client side event processing.
New AJAX tools
Based on the controller-tools architecture, the following tools were added: - Click, double click, mouse down, mouse up, mouse move, mouse over and mouse out callback tools – intercept the mouse events and route them to the server for processing; - Dynamic cursor tool– changes the mouse cursor over interactive visual elements; - Redirect tool– redirects the browser to a specified URL when interactive visual elements are clicked; - Tooltip tool– displays tooltips over interactive visual elements.
Print Manager for Web Forms
None of the most popular web browsers is capable of printing really large images. Nevron .NET Vision Q1 2008 introduces a new HTTP handler that generates HTML, suitable for printing.
Common Features for the WinForm and WebForm editions
1. The only chart for .NET which can display distinct looking charts with presentation "out of the box" quality, without sacrificing speed.
2. Ability to display the following charting/gauge types:
- Bar - Clustered, Stacked, Stacked%, XYZ scatter stack and XYZ scatter cluster multi bar modes. Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles. Support for cluster stack combinations.
- Line - Line series can be displayed as simple lines, tape, tube or stretched ellipsoids. Overlapped, Stacked and Stacked% multi line modes are supported. XY Scatter mode.
- Area - Stacked and Stacked% multi area modes are supported. XY Scatter mode. Supports markers.
- Pie - Visualized as standard pies, torus segments or smooth edge pies. Rim, center or spider modes for pie data labels.
- Point - Points can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
- Bubble - Bubbles can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
- Stock - Stick and candle styles are supported. Open High Low and Close High Low chart subtypes are also supported. XY Scatter mode (date time stocks).
- Kagi - Kagi is a type of financial chart that illustrates the forces of supply and demand on a security. It is focused on price action and disregards the passage of time.
- Renko - Renko is a type of financial chart that is very effective for traders to identify key support and resistance levels. It filters minor price movements and emphasizes on general trends.
- Point and Figure - Point and Figure is a type of financial chart that is designed to filter non-significant price changes and to focus on the main price trends. Point and Figure charts are usually used for longer term price movements.
- Three Line Break - Three Line Break is a price change financial chart that is similar in concept to Kagi, Renko and Point and Figure.
- Floating Bar - Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles.
- Radar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. A special - elevated center feature.
- Polar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. Radian and degree label formatting.
- High Low - High low area with built-in appearance logic. Supports markers. XY scatter mode is also supported (date time range chart).
- Mesh Surface - Surface connecting the user specified X, Y, Z data points. The Mesh surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported including: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be uniformly displayed or synchronized with the used palette. Flat mode is also supported (Mesh Contour chart).
- Grid Surface - Surface connecting the regularly spaced data points (forming a grid). The Grid surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported including: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be uniformly displayed or synchronized with the used palette. Flat mode is also supported (Grid Contour chart).
- Triangulated Surface - This charting type can display a set of points with X, Y and Z coordinates as a 3D surface. In contrast to the Mesh Surface chart, the Triangulated Surface doesn't require the points to be ordered in a network. The control creates a triangular network automatically.
- Shape - A versatile rendering series. The ultimate scatter plotter. Can display shapes with the following styles: Smooth edge, cut edge bar, pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone. The user controls the (X, Y, Z) position of the shape as well as its size along the X,Y and Z dimensions. Can also be used for complex composite object rendering.
- Smooth Line (Spline) - 2D Smooth line, 3D Smooth Line, XY Scatter Smooth Line, XYZ Scatter Smooth Line.
- Float bar (also called Gantt) - Date Time float bar, Date Time Clustered Float Bar.
- Venn - 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Venn set.
- Step Line - 2D Step Line, 3D Step Line, DateTime Step Line
- Error Bar - Y Error Bar, XY Error Bar, XYZ Error Bar
- Funnel - Funnel charts are often used to represent stages in a sales process and show the amount of potential revenue for each stage. This type of chart can be useful also in identifying potential problem areas in an organization’s sales processes. A funnel chart is similar to a stacked percent bar chart.
- Box and Whiskers - Box and whiskers plots are very helpful in interpreting the distribution of data. Each box and whiskers item represents a set of values and displays statistical information for it like minimum, maximum and median values, upper and lower quartiles, outliers and optionally a mean value.
- Line Studies - Line Studies are lines and various geometric figures that are plotted in price charts or in indicator charts. They are used as analytical instruments helping to define channels, support and resistance levels, trend changes and to forecast price dynamics. Line studies supported by Nevron Chart for .NET - Fibonacci Arcs, Fibonacci Fans, Fibonacci Retracements, Quadrant Lines, Speed Resistance Lines and Trendline.
- Smooth Area Series - Standard Smooth Area, XY Smooth Area and Date-Time Smooth Area.
- Circular / Radial Gauges - Radial gauge panels allow displaying virtually any circular gauge. Gauge features include multiple indicators, multiple gauge axes, intelligent gauge scale decorations and many more.
- Linear Gauges - Linear gauge panels allow displaying virtually any linear gauge. Gauge features include multiple indicators, multiple gauge axes, intelligent gauge scale decorations and many more.
- Numeric Display Panel - The Numeric Display Panel features various display styles, control over the decimal formatting, full control over the panel appearance and size and many others.
3. Flexible integrated legend
Lots of predefined styles, positions and data layout strategies. Header and Footer.
4. Built in Functions and Formula support
The component has extensive custom formula support with 50+ predefined functions including commonly used financial indicators like:Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, Moving Averages, etc.
5. Full Visual Studio design time support
State of art editors. Improved wizard. Creating a chart based on template and modifying its data and other settings takes not more than a few minutes.
6. Editors available at runtime
All design time editors are available at runtime including the Wizard.
7. Excel like fill effect editors
You can not only specify any filling you can specify in Excel but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor.
8. Advanced control over the axis scaling and position
Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Lots of predefined text layout schemes. 4 scaling modes - DateTime, Numeric, Logarithmic and Dimension scale. Paging with lots of customisations.
9. Axis labeling abilities
Stripes, constant lines as planes or simple lines, custom axis labels, axis cursors, range selections.
10. Ability to display several charting types simultaneously
Advanced chart margins and fit strategy control.
11. Ability to display several series simultaneously
Making a chart type combination chart has never been easier and more flexible.
12. Ability to display multiple charts and legends in the component canvas
Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts.
13. Image borders
Fancy skin effects which add this such important final touch to your chart image.
14. Watermarks
Ideal for company logos and trademarks - can be displayed on top or behind the chart image with user controlled transparency.
15. Labels
Headers, footers as well as custom positioned labels.
16. Interactivity
Trackball, zoom, offset, mouse cursor change, mouse tooltips and more.
17. Drill Down capabilities
Extensive drill down support. Lots of events for both WinForms and WebForms.
18. Advanced 3D view control
360 degrees rotation, viewer rotation, orthogonal and perspective projections, offset, zoom as well as a lot of predefined projection schemes.
19. Advanced control over the scene lighting
Lots of predefined lighting schemes. Up to 9 light sources. Spot and Directional light.
20. Integrated layout manager
Support for docking, nesting and anchoring of panels. AutoSize and custom size, bounds mode and more makes the creation of complex, scaleable layouts easy and comprehensible.
21. Measurement Unit support
All styles and lengths are specified as a pair of value and measurement unit. More than 20 different measurement units (pixel, inch, millimeter, display etc.).
22. Annotation support
Annotation support that also allows nesting of panels and anchoring panels to key elements of the chart like data points or legend data items. Arrow, Rectangular Callout, Rounded Rectangular callout, Cut edge rectangular callout and Oval callout.
23. Advanced logic features and services
Master slave axes, master slave range selections and master slave cursors
24. Modular design
Build on top of the Nevron Presentation Framework and Nevron DOM (Document Object Model) Framework. Custom binary and XML structured serialisation.
25. SVG support
Nevron chart can export images with interactive features in SVG format.
26. Editor direct update feature
The chart editor supports direct update feature allowing you to instantly preview the changes in the chart DOM.
27. Nevron DOM Compatible
The chart is compatible with the Nevron DOM (Document Object Model), allowing you to subscribe for each property change made from code or from the user.
28. AutoRefresh property
When set to true the control will automatically refresh when some of its properties are modified from code.
29. Custom Binary and Custom XML serialisation
The custom serialisation capabilities of the control allow for version tolerant serialisation of the control state in binary and XML form.
30. Rendering of chart walls
Improved rendering of chart walls now allows for transparent walls. Added front and top walls.
31. Background Decorator
Background decorators are a special type of panel allowing you to embed background style rendering on a per panel basis. This allows the creation of very attractive presentation quality charts.
Windows Forms specific features
1. Built in UI components
Grid and Toolbar components for WinForms. The grid is data aware and supports true date time editing as well as fill effect, line style and cursor type editing. The most frequently used commands are exposed by the Toolbar, which also supports custom buttons and runtime visual configuration.
2. Ability to leverage the video board hardware acceleration
This feature is very useful for real time applications because it frees your CPU from drawing the chart and transfers all the rendering to the CPU of the video board.
3. Print Manager
Advanced built-in printing and print - preview support.
Web Forms specific features
1. AJAX Support for Web Forms
Nevron Chart for .NET supports ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0. Nevron web controls allow AJAX callback handling of the following mouse events: click, double click, move, down and up. The web controls can be forcibly refreshed at client-side and auto-refresh feature is available.
2. Server side events (postback) and HTML image maps
The image maps generated by the component can display tooltips, redirect the client browser to a specified URL or change the mouse cursor.
3. Server side persistency
The component can preserve its state across roundtrips.
4. Ability to inject custom client side script
With the help of this feature you can seamlessly integrate the image maps generated from the component with any type of client side VBScript or JScript.
5. Ability to directly stream an image to the client browser
This is an indispensable feature when building scalable and secure server side applications.
6. Built-in temporary file clean up
The component automatically detects when a temporary file is expired and deletes it from the server. You can also assign disk space usage quota for the directory holding the temporary files in order to ensure that you cannot exceed the space used by your web server application.
7. Built-in browser detection
By leveraging the power of the .NET regular expressions you can instruct the component to generate different responses depending on the browser accessing the page.