Interactive Javascript + Canvas (jqPlot) powered graphs

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Andy,

I'm sorry for not replying earlier. I'm very excited about your  
patches, but haven't had the time to actually do some testing. I was  
planning to apply them to SVN trunk as soon as we have a 2.4-stable  
branch created, so that your patches here (javascript) and also the  
previous python module patches will be available in the experimental  
trunk branch, as soon as it is separated from the 2.4-stable branch.

By the way, how do I apply your patch series most easily? I'm using  
git-svn locally and I'm used to "git am" but not the way you've  
submitted the patches.

Regards,

Christian



Zitat von Andy Clayton <q3aiml at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> [I sent this once before, but that was during the mail server hiccup  
> a month or so ago. Perhaps as a result it got somewhat lost in the  
> torrent of mail. Either that or people aren't here just to appease  
> me. Anyways, I thought I would send it one last time in case anyone  
> wants to try it out and comment. I should have much more time next  
> week to hopefully clean things up further and get it closer to being  
> ready.]
>
> I finally had some time to sit down and clean this up a little.  
> Given that I am lazy I also switched from Flot to jqPlot because it  
> supports more of what Gnucash needs without changes or unsupported  
> extensions. There still is a decent amount of work to be done to  
> reach parity with the gog charts, but I wanted to post what I have  
> so far if anyone would like to try it out and comment. For now I  
> left the old charts in for comparison. Once things are in a bit  
> better shape I'll make a bug and post the latest patches.
>
> Here is a list of at least some of the possible issues I am aware of:
> * The default coloring could probably be better (plus support for  
> when specific colors are specified)
> * The legend needs to get out of the way of the graph
> * On bar graphs as more bars get packed in there seems to be too  
> much padding compared to bar width (really small bars with lots of  
> whitespace)
> * On any of the bar graphs over time the x-axis labels are (to me)  
> misleading. A bar labeled 01/01/2011, for example, actually  
> represents the value up to the next x position, say 01/02/2011.  
> Perhaps labeling it with the through date (the inclusive end date)  
> would make more sense, rather than the start? Then again, maybe that  
> is just a matter of preference. Or maybe I will avoid the issue  
> entirely by simplifying the labels to just year, or month and year,  
> for the simple cases.
>
> Anyways, feel free to give a try and let me know what could be  
> different or better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>