Feature |
Benefit |
| Link to data from almost
any source: HTML, JDBC/ODBC databases, raw text files,
"live" data via a class or method, dynamic data
server processes, CGI scripts, and more. Charts update
instantly whenever the data changes. |
Present users with up-to-date
graphics that are derived as often as needed from any
data source. Uses your custom data directly from whatever
form it is in. Make live charts from online servers, from
statistics files, from databases, or any other sources.
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| Charts are always "alive".
Developers can use the supplied Editor interface, or easily
write their own. Users can change any aspect of the chart,
directly from within a web page. |
Allows users to interact
directly with the chart. Users can resize chart elements,
or change any element of the chart. For those who would
rather look at a pie chart instead of the bar chart, it's
a one-click operation to change! |
| Optimal default settings
provided. All charts have user-definable default settings
for colors, fonts, scales, grid lines, and every other
attribute that can be set. No setup code (other than establishing
a data source) is needed. |
Supply the data, Perspective
takes care of the rest! "Settings" are needed
only to override the defaults. Saves massive amounts of
code, programmer time, and webmaster worries! |
| Built-in drill-down support.
Allows specification of a URL and Target for every single
data point. Perspective maintains this information throughout
all editing operations. |
Create feedback charts and
data drilldown graphics easily. Display a pie chart
with data for an entire company, and users can click on
any slice of the pie to "drill down" to get
more specific information. Or have one chart create another
chart depending on where the user clicks. Or use a chart
as a map for a web site! All this, and much more, is possible
using Perspective's drill down features. |
| Complete JavaDoc compliant
HTML documentation for all code interfaces. Plus a
comprehensive Programmer's Manual with definitions and
examples of every function, property, and method. |
Programmer's documentation
is as close as their web browser. No need to hunt
down a manual, or flip through pages; Perspective's HTML-based
documentation gives programmers an easy-to-use way of
learning all the details. |
| Printed manual contains
complete programmer’s reference to all properties
and methods. |
Hard copy at the developer’s
fingertips. Many web-based products come with only
online documentation. Perspective’s complete printed
manual provides a handy, off-line reference for study
and quick lookups. When working on a web site, it’s
often inconvenient to have to refer to another web site
for important references – Perspective’s full
printed manual alleviates that need. |
| Full Property and Method
based Application Programmer's Interface (API). Use
Perspective either as a true JavaBean (with full Property
list support) or as a class library. |
No new standards to learn.
Perspective uses the standard "set" and "get"
style programmer’s interface. There are over 350
properties and methods that allow complete control over
every aspect of every chart. |
| Writes out
Java source code as its file format. Cut and paste
lines from saved files into your own applications. |
Generate templates
quickly and easily; auto-generate chart setup code.
Using the Perspective chart editor, charts can be customized
in any way desired, and its settings saved out to a file.
The file contains every line of Java source code needed
to create that chart; just cut and paste it wherever needed.
The same code can also be used directly from HTML!
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| Over 80 different
chart types, including dozens of varieties of Bar,
Line, and Area (both single and dual Y varieties) and
Pie charts, plus Radar, Polar, Histogram, Scatter –
and over 10 different varieties of Stock Charts, including
HiLoClose with Volume! |
A chart for
every purpose. Perspective provides the breadth of
chart types usually found only in extremely high-end,
specific applications. Whether the need is for general
business charts, financial analysis, scientific, or "other",
Perspective has the chart and the templates to properly
display all types of data. Perspective’s Pie and
Stock charts even include the hard-to-find Ring Pie and
Candle/"Japanese" HiLo charts. |
| Full 3D charts
with wire frame rotation, plus preset viewing angles!
Bars, Pyramids, even full three dimensional surface charts. |
Easy manipulation
of all 3D charts. Perspective provides 13 different
varieties of fully three dimensional charts, including
surface charts and floating markers! All 3D charts can
be rotated about any axis, either preset or in real time.
If the desire is to wow users with fancy, professional
looking 3D charts or to provide 3D charts for specific
analysis, Perspective covers all the bases. |
| Gradient, texture,
and picture support for all chart areas – including
Pictographs! |
Create fancy
charts with custom logos or pictures. Perspective
ships with a full set of texture fills and clipart, and
any custom bitmap can be specified by the developer. Perspective
also has built-in color gradients, just like a professional
drawing package. If it can be done in PowerPoint or CorelDraw,
it can be done in Perspective! |
| Works with all
development systems that support Java 1.1. |
Standardized
support means Perspective works in almost every development
environment. Perspective has been tested with Symantec
Visual Café, Metrowerks Code Warrior, Borland JBuilder,
IBM VisualAge for Java, Sun Java Workshop, and many others.
Perspective’s Java implementation means that any
1.1 compliant JDE will work great. |
| Generates GIF
images from any chart, at any time. Perspective can
write a chart GIF at any time to any FTP site, for use
in creating non-Java pages, printing, or any other time
you need a bitmap of a chart. |
No need to do
screen captures or use other graphics packages to create
bitmaps. Bitmaps can be created from a chart directly
from the web page. And users can write a GIF file to any
writable FTP site in the world, if that option is made
available to them. |
| ToolTips for
every chart element. |
Instant feedback
when the mouse hovers over a chart area. Users of
office suites will appreciate the familiar yellow box
that appears over any chart area when the user dwells
for a second or so. Perspective provides built-in default
tips for every object, or they can be customized to provide
specific instructions for specific own needs. For example,
a user can hover over a pie slice and a customized Tip
could read "Click here for more information on January
sales". |
| Includes sample
code, sample applets, and sample deployments of charts
on various web pages. |
Ready-made examples
of all types of charts for Java. Perspective comes
with a variety of HTML based chart deployment examples,
as well as examples of database query and retrieval, and
various examples of "live" charts that update
at set intervals or whenever the data behind them changes.
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| Downloads only
the minimum classes needed to draw a particular chart. |
Create custom
archives that include only the portions of the library
needed for specific tasks. Perspective's class files
are implemented such that only the bare minimum number
of files are actually loaded into memory for a particular
operation. For example, a Pie chart loads only the classes
needed to actually image a Pie chart. Developers can choose
from our pre-made library of archives for various purposes
or create their own, thus defining a set of files for
download that meets a particular need. |
| Any or all user
interface elements can be provided to the end user. |
Create a user
interface that matches a specific need. Perspective
comes with a full editing applet, TDGChartEditorApplet,
which includes controls for all portions of the chart
engine. Developers can "pick and choose" from
these "widgets", using just the ones needed
for their clients. In addition, each widget has its own
set of properties for enabling or disabling any sub-feature.
In this manner, developers can create a custom chart user
interface using our set of fully customizable components. |
