JFreeChart 1.0.0-rc2

[david.gilbert]

We are pleased to announce a new release of the JFreeChart class library. This is a second "release candidate" for JFreeChart 1.0.0 final, if no significant problems are reported in the next few days then the 1.0.0 release will be made on 2 December 2005, approximately six years since the first work on JFreeChart began! Here is the link to the SourceForge project page for download links:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreechart/

The significance of the upcoming 1.0.0 release is that the API will be "frozen", and future releases in the 1.0.x series will maintain backwards compatibility with the 1.0.0 release. The changing API has been the number 1 user complaint for many months now, so this should make some people happy.

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to JFreeChart and here's looking forward to next Friday's release, and many more years of JFreeChart development...

[nclemeur]

Hello David,

I have downloaded the latest version and it looks great. I did not had to modify anything to run my program with it.

However, it looks like the resource files are not included by the ant build script...

Also, the chart editor does not seems to work anymore in the demo... Is that something expected?

Thanks again for such a good library!

Cheers

Nicolas

[david.gilbert]

Hi Nicolas,

Aaargh! Thanks for letting me know...I will fix the Ant script and make a new download available (1.0.0-rc3) tonight or tomorrow. Still aiming for 1.0.0 final on Friday...

[angel]

The Developer Guide is still at work in progress but the API-Changes for Legend and PieSectionLabelGenerator aren't covered yet.

[Guest]

I got a

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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jfree/chart/labels/StandardPieItemLabelGenerator

with rc2. I couldn't find a note to this (possibly changed/removed/replaced) class in the CHANGELOG.txt.

[mhilpert]

The changelog says:


[API] In XYStepAreaRenderer, renamed get/setPlotShapes() -->
get/setShapesVisible() (DG);

When using rc2 I get a compile error at

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                    StandardXYItemRenderer sxyir = (StandardXYItemRenderer) xyir;
                    sxyir.setPlotShapes(visible);

so I replaced setPlotShapes() with setShapesVisible() but that doesn't work also:

The method setPlotShapes(boolean) is undefined for the type
StandardXYItemRenderer

I can't see a method "setShapesVisible()" in the sources of these classes either.

[david.gilbert]

I got a

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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jfree/chart/labels/StandardPieItemLabelGenerator

with rc2. I couldn't find a note to this (possibly changed/removed/replaced) class in the CHANGELOG.txt.

It's been renamed StandardPieToolTipGenerator. I'll add an entry to the CHANGELOG.txt file for future reference.

[scaspersen]

removeAgedItems in org.jfree.data.time.TimeSeries use an int to age a long datatype, that does not seem reasonable. I am trying to show 1 year of history and my data is reduced to approx. 1 month.

[david.gilbert]

removeAgedItems in org.jfree.data.time.TimeSeries use an int to age a long datatype, that does not seem reasonable. I am trying to show 1 year of history and my data is reduced to approx. 1 month.

Yes, it should be a long, I'll fix that now. Note that the age is specified in terms of the number of time periods (of whatever class the TimeSeries happens to be using), not strictly milliseconds (although, of course, it *can* be milliseconds).

[david.gilbert]

The Developer Guide is still at work in progress but the API-Changes for Legend and PieSectionLabelGenerator aren't covered yet.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm working on this right now.