Re: [jfreechart-dev] Reviving JFreeChart

[David L. <Dav...@ap...>]

Hi David,

nice to see things are moving again.

In principal, I would be interested in contributing.
In practice, not sure how much time I can offer,
as I have other OpenSource commitments...

Some time ago I played around with a so-called "Arrowtation".
Sort of an Annotation: an annotation-text is split into lines
to fit in a Rectangle, taking account of all the Font'y stuff.
The Rectangle is proportioned by default according
to the "golden ratio", but this could be parametrized.
The Rectangle is coloured with an Alpha-channel and an
optional border, so as not to detract from the underlying
Chart whilst ensuring the annotation-text is legible.
Finally, an arrow connects the Rectangle to a value on the Chart.
Making everything parametrizable & integrating "properly"
into JFreeCharts architecture seemed too daunting at the
time as the Forum seemed to be lying "dead in the water".
With some support, I could maybe take this up...

Regarding future versions, I would suggest we should move
on JDK-wise.  Java 1.6 would seem to be a good platform
to standardize on for long-term support.

Also, I made a contribution 
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=315494&aid=3204823&group_id=15494>: 
PaintAlpha: darker 3D for ALL Paints.
It makes a massive improvement to the "3D experience" with
BarRenderer3D & StackedBarRenderer3D.
Its very thoroughly tested and, I would like to think, well documented.
The changes to existing JFreeChart code are trivial.
It would be nice if that could find its way into the upcoming release.

Best regards,
DaveLaw

On 10/10/2011 23:42, David Gilbert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you are reading this list, then hopefully you've noticed that
> JFreeChart is starting to be active again.  There's a few of us
> collaborating on this, and the aim is to create an active community
> around JFreeChart.  I hope that some of you reading this will be
> motivated to join the effort.  If not now, then later.
>
> Step one is to get a new release together and out the door.  That should
> happen in the next few weeks.  Step two...is to get another release
> shipped.  Incremental improvements, in a direction set by those that
> step up to write the code.
>
> I could say lots more things, but right now I have the urge to do
> things, not to say things!  If you have questions, please ask them right
> here on the developers mailing list.  It's an exciting time - please
> wish us luck, or better still join in with us!
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Gilbert
> JFreeChart Project Leader
>
>
>
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