OOo Chart Development Bjoern's Weblog

There is a very nice Blog entry The new OpenOffice.org Charting Tool Coming in OpenOffice.org 2.3 from Solveig Haugland from GetOpenOffice.org. It shows a small tour through the new chart.

There is a respin of the recently announced Chart2 Beta Build.

Due to Issue 69725 OOo started with a crash on Linux with KDE. This issue is fixed in the respin.

For download check the Chart page. The new downloads are available at a separate download location.

Thank you for the good responses so far!

Four eyes see more than two. And four thousand see even more

You can download the Chart2 Beta Developer Snapshot build (Milestone 9 of the Childworkspace chart2mst3) of OpenOffice.org now!

On the OpenOffice.org Chart page you find a link to the downloads for Linux (Intel), Solaris (Sparc) and Windows (Intel).

Get the snapshot and give it a try! We would greatly appreciate any help with thoroughly testing this version. There is a list of testable areas where you can see what should be tested, and which parts are not finished yet, so you don't want to test those.

Installing the snapshot is easy: just unpack the files and start OpenOffice.org directly from the unpacked directory. For de-installation just remove the unzipped directory. Your user configuration will be stored inside the same directory, so you won't interfere with a previously installed OpenOffice.org version. For more information see the Readme.

There are many new things in this build. My personal highlight: we finally got the range-chooser working. That is the tool that allows you to select cell-ranges in a spreadsheet with the mouse instead of entering those complicated ranges manually when you assign data to chart objects.

If you find bugs in the beta, please submit issues. As there still exist issues for a lot of knows bugs or inconveniences, please consult the queries you find linked in the "Want to help?" section of the Chart page first to avoid submitting duplicates.

Important reminder: Please do not use this version for your daily work, it is still a beta version! It contains still bugs, some features are not complete and it may also contain incompatibilities. If you create documents with this version do not distribute them as they might not be correctly loaded in official builds.

Thanks for your help.

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If you couldn't attend the talk about the New Chart on the OOoCon 2006 in Lyon, or you want to review it, you can find the video on the Kiberpipa page, or you can directly download it as ogg-file (You can view it with the VLC-player).

You can find everything about the talk in the OOo Wiki. There you find the presentation (.odp format) as well as the following example documents:

• Example documents for flexible source ranges are OlympicRings.xls and Measures.xls
  
• Example document for the new API via Basic is NewAPI.ods
  
• Example stock chart document is StockChart.ods
  
• Example for charts with own data is OwnData.odp
  

The OOoCon in Lyon this year was very nice. I made only some pictures, but those I have are available now here.

If you couldn't attend the Conference or you missed a talk, you can now review most of them here, that's really cool.

You can also find most of the presentations now on the OOoCon HomePage. Just click on a day to see the schedule with icons for the papers to download.

Chart2 Developer Snapshot for Milestone 8

A new member in the blogging community: Björn Milcke