Chart Module : beta released (m9)

A new preview release of the new chart module has been released. This time we are looking for testers to hunt bugs. If you have some free time, you can help making OOo better. Here is what Ingrid (iha) posted about this new release :

A beta developer snapshot of the ongoing chart reimplementation is available for download on the chart website. I would like to encourage you to help with testing thus we can assure to not introduce severe regression when replacing the old chart. Just download, extract and start. As this is a developer snapshot build it should not conflict with your normal OpenOffice.org version on your computer. Be aware that the current build still contains a lot of bugs, missing features and maybe incompatibilities. So please don't use it for regular work. Your help and feedback is very appreciated!

The links : - What's new in this milestone - Testable areas - Installation hints

Chart Module : Björn Milcke's blog

Good news, Björn started writing a blog [0]. Welcome Björn to Planet.go-oo.org ;-) For those that do not know him, Björn is one of the main developer of the new chart module (the second being Ingrid Halama). Hence having his blog referenced on planet OpenOffice is great : it may be a good source of information for those interrested in Chart2. Let's hope that it may give Ingrid some motivation to write her own ;-) [0] http://blogs.sun.com/bmilcke/

Chart Module : first press article

Last week the first article [0] on the new chart module was published on the Linux Journal website. This is a review of the current state of the new chart module and the improvements already implemented. Nice to read the writer's point of view : [0] http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000090 PS : also read Björn's comment which adds some more info

Chart Module : new preview released (m8)

In order to the improve OOo experience, a new chart module is under development. A new preview version is released approximately once a month. This month the milestone 8 was released. You can download it from the following website. : http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html It is aimed at testers so please do not hesitate to give feedbacks, we are really taking them into account. So if you have ideas about features you would like to see in it, just do it : submit issues ;-)

Chart2 - Hamburg round trip

During summer (15 to 20 of August), I had the opportunity to go to Sun's office in Hamburg to work on the chart module. There, I met Ingrid (iha) and Björn (bm_), the two main developers of the new chart module at Sun and many other OOo developers. It was really a great time and I have so many "souvenirs" that I could feed a bunch of blog entries with them. I really wanted to thanks CUSOON for sponsoring the trip and all the people at Sun where I was welcomed so nicely. On the other side, during those three working days, we spend our time mostly on two topics :

• The OOoCon 2006 presentation on the new chart module [0]
• Implementing a new small functionality for the chart module : x-sorting for XY charts

The more interresting part that I learned are some insight in the OOo development and especially the dialog development. I will share those things in one of my next posts, thus, stay tuned. [0] http://blogs.sun.com/bmilcke/entry/ooocon_2006_chart_talk_resources

Chart Module : new preview released...

We know that a few of you miss features in the current chart. In order to the improve OOo experience, a new chart module is under development. Even better, you can test a preview of this new module. A new preview version is released approximately once a month on the following website : http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html It is aimed at testers so please do not hesitate to give feedbacks, we are really taking them into account. So if you have ideas about features you would like to see in it, just do it : submit issues ;-) PS : the last release of the preview was published some weeks ago but as one would say : "Better Late (Than Never)".

Chart2 : building the new chart module

I've just finished compiling OOo with the new chart moudule enabled on m166. As always, when a resync is done with a milestone, new issues rise... Only two new issues this time and one related to Java 1.5. I also updated the chart2 wiki page.