[Xerte-dev] Re: Graphs and pies in 1.9

[Pat Lockley]

A visualisation editor would have tonnes of potential, or a CSV upload to
pretty maker


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi,****
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> D3 looks pretty straightforward; very similar to jQuery, but a lot more
> powerful than we need. If we migrate the editor over to HTML5 though this
> year then it would give us instant support for many more chart types…****
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> For the current chart model I simply ported the flash code over just now
> to get the chart working in most browsers although IE8 and below will
> always be a problem. Even D3 won’t work properly in IE8 without using the
> AIGHT library to shim IE8 up to bare minimum of HTML5 compatibility… It
> might be worth looking into adding in AIGHT anyway as I have already had to
> add in several bits of alternative code targeted at IE browsers only… ****
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> Regards,****
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> John Smith****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* Friday, January 04, 2013 2:44 PM
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Cc:* John Horton
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> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Graphs and pies in 1.9****
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> D3 is complicated as anything early on, but once you get the logic it
> makes sense (a little)****
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:****
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> John Horton’s also been looking into a few other javascript libraries for
> drawing graphs as he’s done quite complicated ones in Flash which need
> looking at again.  I’ll pass the link onto him.****
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> (it was John Smith on the list who did the page model btw not the John
> here)****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 04 January 2013 14:32****
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers****
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> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Graphs and pies in 1.9****
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> Ah ok, I have been experimenting with D3 (http://d3js.org/) and feel
> relatively confident I can make it draw basic graphs, wondered if that'd be
> useful****
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> Nothing as complicated as that page shows though****
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:****
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> John wrote the new page model – I think he used jQuery and drew the shapes
> on a canvas.****
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>  ****
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> We were going to look into whether there was something else we could use
> for more complicated graphs but what he did works well for the simple ones
> used on the charts page****
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>  ****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 04 January 2013 14:26
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Graphs and pies in 1.9****
>
>  ****
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> Hello,
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> In 1.9 what draws the graphs and pie charts?
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> Pat****
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