TeeChart Pro version 8.0

See current release notes for fixes and new features applied to interim maintenance releases.

• New TLinearGauge Horizontal property (and new vertical Linear Gauge series)
• New Gauges Frame Gradient property in Brush and Inner, Outer and Middle brushes.
• New GradientBright property for TPieSeries.
• TOrgSeries can now be loaded from datasets using DBChart.
• Fixed visual bug of shadows with negative horizontal or vertical sizes.
• Fixed bug packages could not be installed in Windows 95 / 98 / Me.
• Fixed bug removing Series having TChartEditorPanel controls visible.
• Fixed bug in RGBToHLS function returning bad Hue in some cases.
• Support for RAD Studio 2007 (including VCL.Net)
• New TLinkTool component
• New TPageNumTool properties, and editor dialog
• New TFlexCanvas export format (Adobe Flex / Flash)
• New TCustomBarSeries DarkPen property
• New Canvas PolygonGradient method
• New TeeGotoURL global procedure
• New TNumericGauge, TLinearGauge and TCircularGauge series
• New Elektra and Digital embedded fonts
• New Color, Gradient and Shadow properties for TLegendPaletteTool
• New "Opera" visual theme
• New ppCenter alignment for Annotation tools
• Improvement on TXAMLCanvas export format (Silverlight / WPF)
• TNearestTool new Style "hsSeries" (for example to use with a Pie or TWorldSeries)
• TWorldSeries now persists polygon "Z" values, and has a new editor dialog.
• New TFibonacciTool to draw Fibonacci financial arcs and fans
• Improved TAntiAliasCanvas (Ellipse method, lines with Pen.Width > 1 and ClipEllipse)
• TeeTree nodes smooth Shadow new property.
• New TSeriesMarks, TAnnotationTool and TOrgSeriesItem Margins subproperty
• New TMapSeries (and TWorldSeries) smooth Shadow property
• New TContourSeries LegendLines and LinesColor properties
• New TSeriesPointer Shadow property
• New TDataTableTool OnFilterSeries event to select specific series to show
• New TChartAxisTitle.Clicked function, works with rotated axis titles
• New TCustomBoxSeries.Clicked function
• Many fixed bugs:
  • TPageNumTool wrong display fixed.
  • Exporting series data to text with some series with less number of points than others.
  • TSeriesBandTool not clipping drawings when gradient visible.
  • Mousewheel scrolling not calling OnAllowScroll event and not using AllowPanning property.
  • TColorBandTool Gradient now using transparency property.
  • Duplicate grid lines on logarithmic axes
  • Rotated Axis Title and axis labels improved display when Transparent = False, better Clicked
  • TSelectorTool not deselecting series when series go invisible
  • Font editor dialog not updating font name when changing it using Windows font editor dialog.
  • TDataTableTool not working fine when Chart MaxPointsPerPage <> 0
  • Form inheritance not working when Chart has SeriesGroups.
  • TTeeInspector not allowing manually entering floating point values on "iiDouble" items.

 

 

New features

• Support for Delphi 2007 and C++ 2007.
• New Series types
• New Tool components
• New Functions
• New Language Translation
• New Components
• New in Chart Legend
• New Image Filters
• New Properties
• New Events
• New Type Items
• New Methods
• New Export formats
• Miscellaneous
• Renamed items
• New Global Types
• New Global Procedures
• New Units

New Series types

• IsoSurface Series
  The IsoSurface series draws a 3D surface mesh from a grid of XYZ points, filling each grid cell using an array of Levels expressed in Y coordinates.
  
  
  
   
• VolumePipe Series
  Draws values as segments of a "pipe" with proportional volume based on their percentage of total data.
  
  
  
   
• Darvas financial boxes
  Financial indicator based on OHLC (Candle) data.
  
  
   
• HighLowLine series
  Two points (High and Low) connected with an optional vertical line.
  
  
   

·         PolarGrid series 
A mix of a Custom3DPalette and CustomPolar series. Data is organized in "sectors" and "clusters".

 

• Organizational series
  Create simple Parent --> Child relationship diagrams.
  For more powerful flowcharts or diagrams use the free included TeeTree components.
  
  
  
  

 

• World series
  Enables automatic map drawing with color palettes and allows customization of each "country" polygon.
  Includes maps for World, Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, USA States, etc.
  Easily load your custom ESRI(c) *.SHP maps like USA Counties with a single call.
  
  

 

• TagCloud series
  Webify your applications with this series style. Each XLabel has a YValue that define the text color and size.
  
  
  
   
• Kagi and Renko series
  Financial chart styles.
  
   

 

New Tool components

• DataTable tool
  Displays a table grid with data from series, inside the chart embedded at any position.
  
  
  
   
• SeriesStats tool
  Makes easy to add basic functions to series, like Average, Trend, etc.
  Also shows a report with basic statistical information about the selected series.
  
  
   
• VideoCreator tool
  Allows creating a Windows AVI standard video file from a Chart, frame by frame.
  You control when to start recording and when to stop.
  
  
  
   
• VideoPlayer tool
  Allows playing videos (AVI,MPEG,DivX,etc) inside a Chart background, annotation, legend, etc.
  Visual image filters can be applied to individual frames (contrast enhancing, rotation, zoom, etc)
  
  
   
• TransposeSeries tool
  Swaps all values of all Series in a Chart (exchanges rows by columns)
   
• SeriesRegion tool
  Fills the region between an arbitrary "Origin" value and values of a Series.
  For example can be used to fill the space between a value and Line series.
  
  
  
  
   
• Fader tool
  Hides or shows a Chart using animation, from a given fixed color (ie: from black, or to white, etc)
   
• AntiAlias tool
  Replaces the default Canvas with a TAntiAliasCanvas to smooth diagonal line and polygon edges.
  Also allows adding visual imaging "filters", like changing the panel brightness, soften pixels, grayscale and more.
  
  
  
   
• Frame Tool
  Displays a decorating frame around Chart boundaries. Includes several predefined frame styles.
  
  
  
   
• Magnify Tool
  Displays a magnified portion of a chart inside a draggable and resizeable rectangle or circle tool.
  
  
  
  
   

·         Legend Palette tool
Displays 3D color palettes as a legend.



 

• Banner tool
  Scrolling marquee and blinking text.
   
• Text 3D tool
  Transparent annotation with 3D font that rotates together with chart.
  
  
  
   
• SubChart tool
  Add multiple charts inside another chart, with design-time persistence, editor dialog and object inspector support.
  
  

 

New Functions

• S.A.R. financial function
  
   
• Subset function
  Returns a portion of the data source series.
  
   
• Histogram function
  Creates a frequency distribution on source series data.
  
  
   

New Translation

• Croatian language at TeeCroatian.pas unit.

New Components

• Button Gradient component
  Simple TButton derived class with an additional Gradient property (of type TTeeGradient) to access the Gradient editor dialog without programming.
   
• TChartDataSet
  VCL TDataSet derived component that contains all series data in Chart.
   
• TImageFiltered
  TImage derived visual control that provides an additional property called "Filters" (of type TFilterItems) that the developer can use at design and run-time to add effects to the image like blurring, inverting, adjusting colors, etc.
   
• TChartBook control for multiple-charts (TPageControl derived) where every Tab page contains a Chart and optional TCommander toolbar.
  A popup menu associated to each tab in the book controls chart and commander properties.
   
• TImportChart
  Easy way to load charts from files (native *.tee files) or streams, and from URL links, for both at design-time (without any code) and run-time.
   

 

New in Chart Legend

• Items[ ] property
   
• Series Groups in Legend
  Displays all series groups names at Legend.

Image Filters

• AmountFilter  (abstract)
  SoftenFilter
  BevelFilter
  BlurFilter
  BrightnessFilter
  ColorFilter ( RGB )
  ContrastFilter
  ConvolveFilter (abstract)
  CropFilter
  EmbossFilter
  FlipFilter
  GammaCorrectionFilter
  GrayScaleFilter
  HueLumSat  ( HLS )
  InvertFilter
  LightFilter ( TLightTool uses this filter )
  MirrorFilter
  MosaicFilter
  ResizeFilter
  ReverseFilter
  RotateFilter
  ShadowFilter
  SharpenFilter
  TileFilter
  ZoomFilter
   

New properties

TArrowSeries.ArrowPercent
 

TComboFlat.SelectedObject
    Returns the object instance associated to the currently ComboBox selected item index.

TCustomChartLegend.Item
TCustomChartLegend.Items
TCustomChartLegend.LeftPercent
TCustomChartLegend.PositionUnits
TCustomChartLegend.TopPercent
 

TLegendSymbol.Gradient
TLegendSymbol.Shadow
 

TChartPen.SmallSpace
 

TComboFlat.DropDownWidth
 

TView3DOptions.ElevationFloat
TView3DOptions.RotationFloat
 

TCustomChartGrid.AllowAppend
TCustomChartGrid.ReadOnly
TCustomChartGrid.AllowInsertSeries

TCustomChartGrid now allows double-clicking a Series symbol rectangle to change its color.
TCustomChartGrid now sets "null" series points, by emptying a cell (at mandatory valuelist) while typing.

 

TCustomTeeCommander.Gradient
TTeeCommander.FullRotation
 

TDBCrossTabSource.HideSeries
 

TChartGalleryPanel.Chart
TChartGalleryPanel.Charts
 

TChartAxisPen.LineMode (lmLine, lmCylinder, lmRectangle)
 

TChartPage.Count
TChartPage.FirstValueIndex
TChartPage.AutoScale
TChartPage.Current
TChartPage.MaxPointsPerPage
TChartPage.ScaleLastPage
TCustomAxisPanel.Pages
 

TChartShape.Transparency

TCustomChartElement.ShowInEditor
 

TMarksItem.Text

TSeriesMarks.TextAlign ( default "taCenter" )

TTeeSeriesSource.LoadMode (lmClear, lmAppend)
 

TGLLightSource.Direction
TGLLightSource.SpotDegrees
TGLLightSource.UseDirection
 

TTeeOpenGL.AntiAlias
 

TButtonPen.Editor
 

TTeeFont.Picture ( TTeePicture )

TPointFigureSeries.GetInversionColumn
 

TAxisArrowTool.SizePercent
 

TAnnotationTool.ClipText (default True)

TCursorTool.ClickTolerance
TCursorTool.SnapStyle
TCursorTool.HorizSize and VertSize
TCursorTool.Style ( cssScope )
TCursorTool.ScopeSize
TCursorTool.ScopeStyle ( scsRectangle, scsCircle, scsDiamond )

TDrawLineTool.ClickTolerance
TDrawLineTool.SelectNewLines
TDrawLineTool.Style

TMarksTipTool.HideDelay integer
 

TSurfaceSeries/TIsoSurfaceSeries HideCells boolean
 

TCustomChart.CustomChartRect boolean
 

TGridPen.DrawEvery integer
TGridPen.DrawAtWalls boolean

TTeeCustomShape.Picture TTeePicture
TTeeCustomShape.RoundSize Integer

TChartAxis.MaximumRounded ( boolean )
TChartAxis.MinimumRounded ( boolean )

TCustomTeeGradient.SubGradient ( TSubGradient )
TCustomTeeGradient.Angle

TChartBrush.BackColor (TColor default clNone)

TTeeSource.Chart

TChartImageTool.Pen

TSeriesBandTool.Pen (now draws line around polygon between the two Series)

TPageNumTool.ShowButtons (enables buttons to change current Chart Page)

TTeeScrollBar.Thumb  ( new persistent subclass to define the ScrollBar "Thumb" properties)

TTeeScrollBar.Thumb.Gradient
TTeeScrollBar.Thumb.Image  ( TTeePicture )
TTeeScrollBar.Thumb.Style   ( default = stsCustom )

TPieSeries.PieMarks.VertCenter  (boolean default false)
TPieSeries.PieMarks.LegSize  (integer default 0)

TChartListBox.FontSeriesColor (boolean)

TWindRoseSeries.MirrorAngles (boolean)

TColorGridSeries.Transparency
TColorGridSeries.DrawPlane3D  ( TCanvas3DPlane, default cpZ )
TColorGridSeries.DrawPosition  ( Integer )

TTeeShadow.Visible (default True)
TTeeShadow.SmoothBlur (default 0)

TChartBottomWall.Picture

TChartLeftWall.Picture

TChartRightWall.Picture

TColorBandTool.Picture

TChartTitle.VertMargin (integer default 5 , "TeeTitleFootDistance" deprecated)

TContourSeries.Pointer
TContourSeries.LevelMarks ...
TContourSeries.Brush (filling)
TContourSeries.Transparency

TContourSeries.Frame
TContourSeries.LegendLines
TContourSeries.LinesColor
TContourMarks.AntiOverlap

TLineSeries  / THorizLineSeries Gradient  (pending: Stairs mode)
 

TTeeMovingFunction.PeriodAlign now working. (ie: TMovingAverageFunction and others)

TRotateTool.Inertia (0 to 100%)
TRotateTool.Cursor
TRotateTool.Speed

TSeriesAnimationTool.Delay new property (milliseconds, default 0)

TRectangleTool.Dragging boolean (read-only)
TRectangleTool.Resizing boolean (read-only)

TRectangleTool.AllowDrag  (boolean default true)
TRectangleTool.AllowResize (boolean default true)

Chart1.SeriesGroups new property, now published and persisted at design-time and runtime
(points to already existing Chart1.SeriesList.Groups property)

TCustomLineSeries.TreatNulls (tnDontPaint, tnSkip, tnIgnore)
(inherited by Line, Point, Area, Horiz.Line and FastLine series types)

TAreaSeries.StackGroup  (valid only when MultiArea <> maNone)

TCustomBarSeries.Shadow (Bar and HorizBar)

TExpMovAveFunction.IgnoreNulls (boolean, default True)

TChartEditor.PixelsPerInch

TCustomPolarSeries.TreatNulls ( default tnIgnore )
(applies to Polar, Radar, PolarBar, PolarGrid and WindRose series)

TMapSeries.PointSize (integer, default 1)

TChartShape.Transparency  ("Shape" series)

New events

TTeeOpenGL.OnRepaint
 

TDragMarksTool.OnDraggedMark
TDragMarksTool.OnDraggingMark
 

TMarksTipTool.OnCancelHint
 

TRectangleTool.OnDragged
TRectangleTool.OnResized

TCustomSeries.OnClickPointer

TCustomChart.OnAddSeries
TCustomChart.OnRemoveSeries

TWindRoseSeries.OnGetPointerStyle

TCustomPolarSeries.OnGetCircleLabel
(can be used with Polar, Radar, WindRose and Clock series)

TColorBandTool.OnResized
(happens when user drags "StartLine" or "EndLine" edges)

TSeriesAnimationTool.OnStart and OnStop

TAnnotationTool.OnDblClick (also for derived tools TRectangleTool, TPageNumTool and TBannerTool)

 

New type items
 

TChartClickedPart    cpAxisTitle

TSeriesMarksStyle    smsSeriesTitle
TSeriesMarksStyle    smsPointIndex
TSeriesMarksStyle    smsPercentRelative

TDrawLineStyle        dlRectangle, dlEllipse

TSeriesPointerStyle    psHexagon

TChartEditorOption    ceAskDelete ( ChartEditor1.Options:=[ceAskDelete] )

New methods

TChartTitle.Clear (Title, Foot, SubTitle and SubFoot)
 

TColorPalettes.AddTo
 

TDrawLineTool.AddLine( X0,Y0,X1,Y1 : Double)

THorizBarSeries.CalcBarBounds
 

TCanvas3D.Polygon3D (abstract)
TTeeCanvas3D.Polygon3D
 

TCalendarSeries.ClickedDate
 

TCustomChartGrid.ColorsColumn
TCustomChartGrid.FirstRowNum
TCustomChartGrid.LabelsColumn
 

TChartAxes.Hide
 

TChartPage.NextPage
TChartPage.PreviousPage
 

TSeriesGroups.FindByName
 

TContourLevels.AddLevel
 

TCustom3DPaletteSeries.InvertPalette
 

TDrawLine.Clicked ( Tolerance : Integer )
 

TChartTools.Add( Tool : TTeeCustomToolClass )

TColorGridSeries.CellBounds(x,z : Integer) :TRect

TTeeShadow.Draw(ACanvas: TCanvas3D; const P:TPointArray);
 

TRotateTool.Rotate (perform rotation / elevation with floating-point accuracy)

Miscellaneous


Assign method implemented in Chart Tools

Clicked method improved in Arrow, Polar, Pyramid and Volume series.

CloneChartTool new global procedure.

"Clone" button at Tools editor dialog.

"Copy" button at Data tab, Chart Editor dialog.

Custom3DPalette series serialization of custom color palettes.

"psCustom" new item of TPaletteStyle ( Custom3DPalette series )

Resizing of corners in TRectangleTool

Much improved speed of Irregular Grid3D series

Canvas WideString (Unicode) drawtext support

TeeCommander acts on Ctrl and Shift keys while mouse dragging

Speed optimization of Canvas "SmoothStretch" method.

Improved Chinese Simple translation.

Axis Scales editor improved.

Axis Titles now displayed as TeeShape objects, and editor improved.

Annotation editor has a "Visible" checkbox, aliased to ChartTool1.Active property.

Canvas AssignBrushColor deprecated. Please use Canvas.AssignBrush overloads.

Tools gallery dialog shows a short description and a demo about the current selected tool. (When using the new TeeToolsGalleryDemos.pas unit)

Chart Editor dialog "Data" tab allows inserting new series by typing data or pressing the right-arrow cursor key.

Charts can be saved to streams as native templates in XML format.

Improved Tower series click detection (MarkTips, OnClick, etc)

TransposeGrid tool now preserves 3D palette after swapping 3D grid rows by columns.

ImagePoint and DeltaPoint series pictures are now of type TTeePicture (with Filters)

"Fonts" subtab at "General" editor tab, central place to edit all chart fonts.

New "MacOS", "Opera", "Cool" and "Warm" color palettes (available both at Pie, Grid3D editor and Themes editor, and by code)

Color palette can be selected at Chart Gallery dialog, and also preset for new charts at DesignOptions dialog.

New simple TStrings editor dialog (ie: to edit Memo1.Lines) at TeeStringsEditor.pas unit.
Usage ie: TeeEditStrings(Self,Memo1.Lines)

• Several editor dialogs now allowing editing text via TeeStringsEditor
  with new "Edit..." button (Chart Title editor, Text 3D, Series text source, XML source, Shape series, Annotation tool and Legend title editor)

Redesigned TeeDesignOptions.pas design-time dialog.

Improved Area/Horiz.Area "Clicked" method when area mode Stairs = true

Improved display or Area/Horiz.Area series with LinePen different than AreaLinesPen, in Stairs mode.

TeeRecompile detects and recompiles/installs TeeChart for QuickReport v4 (Pro or Standard) packages.

The OnGetPointerStyle event can now be used to change Series1.Pointer properties like Color, Size, etc.

WindRose series new circle labels for 22.5 degree AngleIncrement.

New editor dialog for TCurveFittingFunction

Picture export dialog, new "File Size" checkbox displays file size of the image being exported.

MapSeries now can draw shapes consisting on just one single XY point.
The Clicked function also supports single point shapes. A new PointSize property defines how big to
display single point shapes.
This feature can be used for example to display locations (cities, etc) on a Map or World series having
data with just XY or Latitude/Longitude coordinates:
 

Link to a SHP file with +13000 locations
Uses TeeSHP;
LoadMap(Series1,'WorldLocs_point.shp',Table1,'Place_Name');
 

New Export formats

XAML

Example of a TeeChart saved to *.xaml format, saved and dragged onto Internet Explorer 7.
Note: You need to have installed the Microsoft .Net 3.0 Runtime or SDK in your machine.

Click this screenshot to maximize:



Click here to download the above TeeChart_Example.xaml file.

To export a Chart to xaml you can do this:

uses TeeXAMLCanvas;
TeeSaveToXAMLFile(Chart1,'c:\test.xaml');
 

Renamed items

TTeeSeriesSource internal class has been renamed to TTeeSource

New global types

TSymbolCalcHeight = function : Integer of object

TGLFontStyle ( fsNormal, fsOutline, fsBitmap )

TDragMarkEvent ( used by TDragMarksTool )

TSnapStyle ( used by TCursorTool )
 

New global procedures

• TeeSaveToXAMLFile
• HLSToRGB
• RGBToHLS
• PositionToCenter( Form : TForm )
• function ScreenRatio( Canvas : TCanvas3D ) : Double
• ShowThemesEditor( boolean )
• SaveChartToXMLFile
• SaveChartToXMLStream
• ConvertTextToXML

New Units

• TeeIsoSurface.pas
• TeeVideo.pas
• TeeBackImage.pas
• TeeFilters.pas
• TeeFiltersEditor.pas
• TeeSeriesStats.pas
• TeeExcelSource.pas (* from TeeChartOffice)
• TeeSubsetEditor.pas
• TeeHistogram.pas
• TeeAntiAlias.pas
• TeeVideoPlayer.pas
• TeeHighLowLine.pas
• TeeTransposeSeries.pas
• TeeSeriesRegion.pas
• TeeToolsGalleryDemos.pas
• TeeFrameTool.pas
• TeeSAR.pas
• TeeLegendPalette.pas
• TeePolarGrid.pas
• TeeBannerTool.pas
• TeeText3D.pas
• TeeStringsEditor.pas
• TeeChartBook.pas
• TeeSubChart.pas
• TeeMagnifyTool.pas
• TeeFaderTool.pas
• TeeCurveFittingEditor.pas
• TeeOrgSeries.pas
• TeeWorldSeries.pas
• TeeTagCloud.pas

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