Features Added in 1999 Releases
Some of the new features added to Release 4.3d of RainPro are:
- High-colour support. Allows you to use hex strings such as
chSet ('colour' '#9DC806,#78598D') (lime and mauve) wherever a colour name is normally given.
- Key frames the Key Box property gives you complete control over key position and layout
- Page labels the Page Label property is a convenient place to label the current values for any hidden dimensions
- Data Window Window property simplifies the plotting of timeseries with switchover dates (actual/forecast)
chBar accepts Stacked style as synonym for relative,cbar.
Other capabilities included for the first time in Release 4.4 are:
- Rain now substitutes solid pastel colours for the first 7 patterns, mixing in an appropriate proportion of white; this looks a little better on high-colour monitors and compresses much better to keep the image size as small as possible.
- Multiple box-whisker plots for datasets with 2 category axes. As seen at APL99!
- Custom repeat patterns for dashed lines. Better (and faster) rendering of dashed lines where the repeat pattern is quite long compared to the interval between data points.
- Angled X-axis labels
- Vector graphics support for IE5 including drill-down and hot-links from any text. Vector support for non-Microsoft environments with a freely-available Java applet.
- Automatic trellis generation for small multiples and piecharts
- Support for custom fill patterns and custom markers
- Polar charts added as a standard chart type.
There are numerous other small improvements and bug fixes check the Release variable in the RainPro workspace for full details.Viewer support for data and caption hotspots is now included in the APL+Win implementation; the viewer now shows data hints and tracks the (x,y) cursor on the chart region.
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