Updates to Feb 14th 2002

Availability
Please note that this release is currently available to CUSP subscribers only. The changes noted here will be incorporated into the standard edition of RainPro at the end of November 2002.

Latest updates
vml.initpage – adds ‘antialias:false;’ to entire chart group to turn off blurry bars and lines in IE6. When it gets around to doing the text as well as SVG does. we can be more selective here!

vml.pT,svg.pT – did not translate the APL highbar when writing co-ordinates. This could break the SVG viewer when (for example) very overcrowded pie- labels climbed right out of the top of the chart frame. Fixed.

svg.pT – tickmarks need ‘fill:none’ setting explicitly when the line is dotted or dashed, as otherwise we get a black hairline shown in the gaps! Fixed.

vml.settext – accepts any CSS modifiers after the font name. These are passed directly into the VML output in the same way as SVG filters.

 ch.DefineFont'AS' 'Arial;font-variant:small-caps'

Both SVG and VML accept either ‘,’ or ‘;’ as a separator here.

vml,svg.stroke – was losing track of hints,tips etc on markers if we had a timeseries with only one datapoint! Fixed.

svg.stroke – support for tips on lines completed. Hints still to do.

svg.wedge – updated to allow ‘dial’ to avoid drawing radius lines. This adds one more element to the argument – 1 draws both radii, 0 draws neither. PDF version is also OK, VML has a strange rendering bug (not mine!).

vml.understone – adds ‘name=’ anchors for any charts with a non-default name. This makes it easy to have internal jumps in a multipage chart set. The example Multipage function shows how this works.

pdf.MakeAnnotations – honours internal jumps in the same way. An href to a target which matches a chart name is executed with a PDF GoTo command instead of a URI ‘weblink’ jump. The current zoom level is preserved.

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