ChartDirector

ChartDirector General Features

Layering Architecture
Enables you to synthesize the charts you want using standard chart layers. Use layers to create arbitrary combo charts, add special symbols, marks and labels to charts, highlight chart objects, add error bands ...

Comprehensive Chart Styles
Pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step line, trend line, curve-fitting, inter-line filling, area, band, scatter, bubble, floating box, box-whisker, waterfall, finance, gantt, vector, radar, polar, rose ...

Financial Library with Source Code
Includes sophisticated financial charting library with 46 technical indicators. Comes with source code.
Angular meters of arbitrary angular span. Linear meters in horizontal and vertical orientations.

Unparalleled Customizability
Powerful object oriented API allows you to customize every chart details.

Flexible Axis System
Unlimited number of XY axes per chart. Automatic, semi-automatic and manual scaling. Linear, log, date/time and label-based axis. Configurable axis margins. Customizable axis labels.

Markup Text Support
The innovative ChartDirector Markup Language (CDML) technology allows rich formatting of text - embed icons and images in text, use multiple fonts and colors in the same piece of text, control text layout, alignment, line-spacing, wrapping, truncation, ...

Advanced Color System
All objects in ChartDirector are painted using configurable "color brushes", supporting ARGB colors (true color with alpha transparency), pattern colors (wallpaper), gradients, metallic colors, and threshold colors (colors that depend on data values).

AJAX Enabled User Interactions
Full suite of mouse events for chart objects. Customizable hot spots on charts. Pop-up tool tips, drill-down, drag to zoom and drag to scroll support. AJAX enabled for web applications so charts can be updated without page refresh.

Browser Compatibility
Produces charts in PNG, JPEG, BMP, WBMP and GIF. Viewable by virtually all browsers, including mobile and hand-held devices. Charts can be embedded in email, word documents, PDF, etc. as images. No client side Java or ActiveX controls required.

On the Fly Chart Creation and Delivery
Charts can be generated and delivered to the browser on the fly as standard HTTP image data. No temporary image files needed.

Bandwidth Efficient
Optimized color reduction algorithm for creating palette based charts that look as good as true color charts, but with much smaller file size. Ideal for Internet applications.

Easy to Use
Producing charts requires just a few lines of code. Comprehensive documentation and numerous sample programs.

Internationalization
Unicode characters support. Configurable number and date/time formats.

64 Bit Compatible
ChartDirector works now on 64bit OS like Vista 64-bit

ChartDirector ASP/COM/VB Specific Features

• ChartDirector for ASP/COM/VB is the ChartDirector library implemented as a COM component. It can be used by any system that supports COM, such as ASP web pages, Visual Basic, MS Word, Excel, Access, FoxPox, any system with VBA, VBScript or JScript support, and many other third party products. Note:The "VB" in ChartDirector for ASP/COM/VB refers to VB 6.0, VBA and VBScript. If you are looking for VB.NET, VB 2005, VB2008 or other versions of VB for the .NET platform, please, use ChartDirector for .NET.
• Works on Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista: ChartDirector only needs Windows to run. It is completely self-contained and does not need any other third party products.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Over 700 pages of fully indexed and searchable documentation.

ChartDirector .NET Specific Features

• 100% Managed Code: ChartDirector for .NET is written in 100% managed code. It is not a wrapper for COM or ActiveX. No registration or copying DLLs to system32 is required for using ChartDirector.
• 100% CLR Compliant: ChartDirector for .NET is 100% CLR compliant, which means it will work any .NET languages.
• Strongly Named and Non-Strongly Named Versions: ChartDirector assemblies are available in both strongly named and non-strongly named versions for different installation and security needs.
• Visual Studio .NET Integration: Includes Windows Forms and Web Forms controls. Integrates with the Intellisense, Dynamic Help, F1 context sensitive help, and the help index and search system of Visual Studio .NET. Links to related ChartDirector documentation will show up in the Dynamic Help window as the developer types or places cursor on source code.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Over 1000 pages of fully indexed and searchable documentation, with numerous sample code and examples.

ChartDirector JSP/Java Specific Features

• Pure Java Implementation of ChartDirector. Runs Anywhere: ChartDirector for JSP/Java only requires Java SE 1.2 or above to install and run. No other external library required.
• Suitable for Both JSP/Servlets and Standalone/Applets Applications
• Includes the full ChartDirector library contains both with server and client side features, and also a light-weight edition optimized for standalone and Applets usage.

ChartDirector PHP Specific Features

• Completely self-contained: ChartDirector is completely self-contained and does not required any third party PHP or graphics module ("GD" not required).
• High Performance Graphics Engine: ChartDirector's built-in multi-threaded graphics engine is specially designed for high performance server side graphics. It is fast and efficient and employs high quality anti-alias graphics.
• Javascript JsChartViewer Library: Sophisticated Javascript library to support charts with AJAX features and advanced user interactions, such as drag to zoom and drag to scroll.
• PHP Sample Code: Includes plenty of PHP sample code with an explorer-style browser page for easy viewing.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Over 700 pages of documentation, available in both HTML and CHM format, fully indexed and searchable (CHM only).
• System Requirements: PHP 4.0.4 pl1 or above (including PHP 5) on Windows, Linux (i386, x86_64), FreeBSD or Solaris, PHP 4.2.1 or above on Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel).

ChartDirector Perl Specific Features

• Completely self-contained: ChartDirector is completely self-contained and does not required any third party Perl or graphics module (eg. "GD" not required).
• High Performance Graphics Engine: ChartDirector's built-in multi-threaded graphics engine is specially designed for high performance server side graphics. It is fast and efficient and employs high quality anti-alias graphics.
• Javascript JsChartViewer Library: Sophisticated Javascript library to support charts with AJAX features and advanced user interactions, such as drag to zoom and drag to scroll.
• CGI and Standalone Sample Code: Includes plenty of Perl sample code both CGI and standalone scripts. The CGI versions come with an explorer-style browser page for easy viewing.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Over 700 pages of documentation, available in both HTML and CHM format, fully indexed and searchable (CHM only).
• System Requirements: Perl 5.004 or above on Windows, Linux (i386, x86_64), FreeBSD or Solaris. Perl 5.6.0 or above on Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel).

ChartDirector Python Specific Features

• Completely self-contained: ChartDirector is completely self-contained and does not required any third party Python or graphics module (eg. "GD" not required).
• High Performance Graphics Engine: ChartDirector's built-in multi-threaded graphics engine is specially designed for high performance server side graphics. It is fast and efficient and employs high quality anti-alias graphics.
• Javascript JsChartViewer Library: Sophisticated Javascript library to support charts with AJAX features and advanced user interactions, such as drag to zoom and drag to scroll.
• CGI and Standalone Sample Code: Includes plenty of Python sample code as both CGI and standalone scripts. The CGI versions come with an explorer-style browser page for easy viewing.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Over 700 pages of documentation, available in both HTML and CHM format, fully indexed and searchable (CHM only).
• System Requirements: Python 1.5 or above on Windows, Linux (i386, x86_64), FreeBSD or Solaris. Python 2.1 or above on Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel).

ChartDirector Ruby Specific Features

• Completely self-contained: ChartDirector is completely self-contained and does not required any third party graphics module (eg. "GD" not required).
• High Performance Graphics Engine: ChartDirector's built-in multi-threaded graphics engine is specially designed for high performance server side graphics. It is fast and efficient and employs high quality anti-alias graphics.
• Javascript JsChartViewer Library: Sophisticated Javascript library to support charts with AJAX features and advanced user interactions, such as drag to zoom and drag to scroll.
• Ruby On Rails and Standalone Sample Code: Includes a ready-to-run Ruby On Rails sample application with a complete set of sample charts in MCV coding style. Also includes a complete set of sample charts as standalone Ruby scripts.
• System Requirements: Ruby 1.8.0 or above on Windows, Linux (i386, x86_64), FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel).

ChartDirector C++ Specific Features

• Completely self-contained: ChartDirector is completely self-contained and does not required any third party library.
• Multi-threaded Design: ChartDirector is thread-safe for high performance applications. Multiple charts can be created concurrently.
• MFC and Standalone Sample Code: Includes plenty of sample code as standalone command line programs and in MFC (Windows version only). The MFC sample code demonstates how to create a Windows application with hundreds of charts of different styles. There are also sample charts that demonstrate drag to zoom and drag to scroll features, and realtime charts. Note:ChartDirector for C++ is GUI framework neutral, which means it does not depend on any GUI framework functions. The MFC code are provided only as examples. You may use ChartDirector with other GUI frameworks as well.
• Compiler Compatibility: ChartDirector for C++ implements the C++ API in header files, which in turn use standard C linkage to the ChartDirector DLL/shared object. As a result, it is compatible with most compilers. ChartDirector has been tested with Visual C++ 6.0/7.0, Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008, Borland C++, gcc and cc. If you are using other C++ compilers, it is likely ChartDirector is compatible with them too. Please feel free to download the trial version for testing. Note:ChartDirector for C++ is for standard C++. Programs are compiled to native code for speed and performance.
• Operating Systems: ChartDirector works on Windows, Linux (i386, x86_64), FreeBSD, Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel) and Solaris.