ProEssentials - Summary

by GigaSoft - Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / .NET WinForms / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Summary

ProEssentials by GigaSoft

URLs: proessentials, gigasoft

Add financial, scientific, engineering and business charts to your applications. GigaSoft ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. GigaSoft ProEssentials includeds WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL, and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder, and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.

ProEssentials comes in three variations: Pro, Standard, and Lite. All versions come complete with the same quantity of features and interfaces.

Pro Version is unlimited

Standard Version is limited to 8000 data points per control instance

Lite version is limited to 1000 data points per control instance

Client side development is royalty free. For web development, the ProEssentials product allows for placing ProEssentials redistributables on one production server, one test server, and one development server.

ProEssentials is compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2008, 2005, 2003 and 2002, Visual Studio 6.0, and Delphi/Builder. It provides developers mission critical charting and data visualization features within a simple to use property based interface.

ProEssentials is a combination of five components and five interfaces delivering you over 1200 features for each of following interfaces: .NET (WinForm), ASP.NET (WebForm), ActiveX, DLL, and VCL. This product is much like a subscription and delivers the latest .NET (Windows Forms), ASP.NET (Web Forms), ActiveX, DLL, and VCL interfaces, new releases, updates, improvements, and phone/email/online support.

Combined with this large quantity of features, the product maximizes speed while maintaining high visual quality (for example, no overlapping text.)

Electronic documentation is available locally on your development system. Walk-Throughs get you started in areas of WinForm development, WebForm development, VB6 ActiveX development, ASP ActiveX development, Win32 DLL development, and VCL Delphi development. There are plenty of examples showing how features are used in conjunction to produce highly interactive and quality data visualization.

The Pie Chart control has been improved and now offers three algorithms to prevent text from overlapping. Gigasofts Pie Chart now produces intelligent label placement as close to the slice as possible while utilizing control real-estate perfectly. Open-High-Low-Close and Candle-Stick features have also been completely rewritten to produce the highest quality output independent of the quantity of data and size of chart.

All interfaces are included (WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, DLL, and VCL) make ProEssentials ideal to standardize within your large company. Multiple teams have the freedom to choose their favorite interface while all teams rely on a similar and high quality charting codebase.

Unlimited Royalty Free distribution of your client-side EXEs. Server-side deployment allows placement on one production server, one test server, and one development server.

What’s new in ProEssentials v7.1?

Added Traditional Chinese as well as updated Simplified Chinese and Spanish resources.

DayLabelType now supports hiding day from this area.

Improved the Web example project PE7WebDemo

Fixed a potential stability issue with drawing x axis when AutoScaleData = False and numbers are very large.

Improved filtering logic to better support NullDataGaps. If filtering and working with much data and many nulls, you may need to inject 20 or more nulls and set Filter2D to a slower setting to get consistent output in forcing gaps. Complex null gap effects with large quantities of data can be hard for the filtering logic to handle correctly.

Exporting Text/Data with charts with inverted axes was exporting text as negative values.

Improved grid numbers for x and y axes from showing -0 in some cases where grid line value was zero.

What’s new in ProEssentials v7?

Speed Improvements

GdiPlus renders significantly faster. For current users, if not using GdiPlus, try it with v7 and set AntiAliasGraphics=True and AntiAliasText = True.

Built-in automatic data reduction makes handling large data sets faster. Optimization for 2D, 3D, 2D contours, and Polar/Smith charts. Optimization is per plotting method.

New RenderEngine = PERE_GDI_TURBO, its GDI rendering but much faster and optimized for 2D scatter plots with large data sets. Data reduction of 2D linear and bar type plots can achieve pixel accuracty.

Visual Improvements

GdiPlus is now the primary target whereas with v6 and earlier we wanted to maintain WMF support. With v7 WMF support is no longer fully supported for all features. Developers may want to set the AllowWmfExport feature to False.

All plotting routines were rewritten to take full advantage of GdiPlus anti-aliased graphics. Be sure to use AntiAliasGraphics and AntiAliasText set to True.

Added gradient fill features for everything, at multiple levels: per plotting method, per subset, and per annotation.

Added bevel and lighting effects on top of gradient effects. Bars, Areas, new SplineAreas, Rect and Polygon Graph Annotations, and TableAnnotations supported.

Bar and Candlestick charts now have a new optional glass effect.

Pie charts add new gradient and lighting effects as well as rewritten to render best for GdiPlus and anti-aliased graphics.

Improved datapoint and marker point sizes allowing minimum and maximum range.

Pego and Pesgo add grid banding and more subtle grid line coloring options. This is on by default, see GridBands, GridBandsAlpha, GridLineAlpha below. To show a chart in legacy form, set new features GridBold = True and GridBands = False.

Functional Improvements

Pego, Pesgo, and Pepco now update immediately upon using scrollbars. Also added MouseDraggingX and MouseDraggingY features where the middle mouse button grabs zoomed charts.

Pego and Pesgo now include a full-featured zoom-window that shows all data below a zoomed chart. Annotations and hot-spots are supported. The level of robustness allows elaborate charting based user interfaces. Added new per annotation type properties GraphAnnotationZoom, HorzLineAnnotationZoom, VertLineAnnotationZoom, and XAxisAnnotationZoom. Allowing annotations to be GRAPH_ONLY, GRAPH_AND_ZOOMWINDOW, or ZOOMWINDOW_ONLY. Related are AllowGraphAnnotHotSpot and per annotation GraphAnnotationHotSpot (and other annotations types) which were expanded to provide similar control of potential hot spot locations.

Pego and Pesgo adds Spline Area and Spline Ribbon plotting methods.

Pesgo adds the stacked type plotting methods.

Basic Polar/Smith charts now support more than one zoom level.

3D charts can now have different sized axes. See GridAspectX GridAspectZ below

GraphAnnotations add angled text, horizontal/vertical regions, and solid arrows. Example 015 adds angled text, example 101 shows a vertical region.

What’s new in ProEssentials V6?

Full unicode support

New core vector rendering engine expanded to render as 1) GdiPlus with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, 2) a hybrid of GdiPlus and Gdi, and 3) legacy Gdi

More gradient styles

More export formats, Enhanced Metafiles, Enhanced Plus Metafiles, SVG

Improved image exports with DPI options

Improved text export with simple programmatic control of exported text

Improved end-user printing and printing functions

More line types, point types, graph-annotation types and table-annotation types

Expanded multi-axis capabilities, 16 left and 16 right axes for a total of 32 axes

Many new annotation related features

More grid line configuration features

3D improvements include improved 3D positioning and 3D real-time

Improved 2D and 3D contours and contour legends

Intelligent date-time feature expanded to handle milliseconds

Improved zooming allowing better use of rect as a drawing / selection tool

More legend styles / locations

New internet based real-time functionality

Many new improvements throughout the product related to rendering intelligence

Add financial, scientific, engineering and business charts to your applications.

Pricing: ProEssentials v7.1 1 Developer License - Professional, ProEssentials v7.1 1 Developer License - Standard, ProEssentials v7.1 1 Developer License - Lite, ProEssentials v7.1 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Professional Upgrade from Professional V3.x, V4.x, V5.x or V6.x, ProEssentials v7.1 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Professional Upgrade from Standard V5.x or V6.x or Lite V5.x or V6.x, ProEssentials v7.1 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Standard Upgrade from Standard V5.x or V6.x or Professional V3.x, V4.x, V5.x or V6.x, ProEssentials v7.1 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Standard Upgrade from Lite V5.x or V6.x, ProEssentials v7.1 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Lite Upgrade from any previous Lite version

Evals & Downloads: Read the ProEssentials help file, Read the ProEssentials License Agreement, Download the ProEssentials v7.1 evaluation on to your computer - Expires After 30 Days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.51

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ASP.NET WebForms, .NET WinForms, ActiveX OCX, DLL, VCL

Built Using: MFC V4.2 / V6.0

General: Internet Enhanced, Marked as Safe for Scripting, Marked as Safe for Initialization, OCX96 Compatible, Supports Apartment Model Threading, Supports Free Threading

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0, Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, CodeGear C++ 5.0 (formerly Borland), CodeGear C++ (formerly Borland), Delphi 8.0, Delphi 7.0, Delphi 6.0, Delphi 5.0, Delphi 4.0, Delphi 3.0, Delphi 2.0, Delphi 1.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1

Product Class: Business Components

Keywords: GigaSoft ProEssentials, ProEssentials

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Part numbers: PC-504646-360740 504646-360740 PC-504646-360742 504646-360742 PC-504646-360744 504646-360744 PC-504646-360736 504646-360736 PC-504646-360738 504646-360738 PC-504646-360746 504646-360746 PC-504646-360748 504646-360748 PC-504646-360750 504646-360750

Mfr. Part No: PE70 PE70L PE70LU PE70S PE70SU PE70SUL PE70U