Developer guide question

wsnyder6 · Post by **wsnyder6** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:26 pm

Hello,

I am interested in learning more about JFreeChart. I did a quick poke around the site looking for some tutorials. My impression is that in order to starting learning/trying out JFreeChart, I have to buy a Developers Guide.

Is that true? I cetainly hope not. Please tell me there are code samples available somewhere on the JFreeChart web site.

Thanks!

--Bill

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:14 pm

To get you started:

- you can download the JFreeChart Installation Guide from SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... e_id=13145

- there are a few basic demos in the distribution, in the org.jfree.chart.demo.* package;

- the API docs are online:

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/api.html

- to see what JFreeChart is capable of, you can run the demo application (the complete source code for this is included only with the JFreeChart Developer Guide). Here's the webstart link:

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/jfreech ... -demo.jnlp

Finally, there's a lot of good information in this forum, if you go looking for it.

Most people tell me that the JFreeChart Developer Guide is good value for money, but certainly a lot of people get by without it, so don't feel that you have to buy it.

wsnyder6 · Post by **wsnyder6** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:26 pm

Thank you for the response. I most definitely wouldn't mind paying for a developer guide - just not when I am new to the project and want to experiment with it.

Those links look like they will help me get started with the basics. Thanks again!