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@@ -1,6 +1,36 @@ -Flot 0.x +Flot 0.6 -------- +API changes: + +1. Selection support has been moved to a plugin. Thus if you're +passing selection: { mode: something }, you MUST include the file +jquery.flot.selection.js after jquery.flot.js. This reduces the size +of base Flot and makes it easier to customize the selection as well as +improving code clarity. The change is based on patch from andershol. + +2. In the global options specified in the $.plot command, +"lines", "points", "bars" and "shadowSize" have been moved to a +sub-object called "series", i.e. + + $.plot(placeholder, data, { lines: { show: true }}) + +should be changed to + + $.plot(placeholder, data, { series: { lines: { show: true }}}) + +All future series-specific options will go into this sub-object to +simplify plugin writing. Backward-compatibility code is in place, so +old code should not break. + +3. "plothover" no longer provides the original data point, but instead +a normalized one, since there may be no corresponding original point. + +4. Due to a bug in previous versions of jQuery, you now need at least +jQuery 1.2.6. But if you can, try jQuery 1.3.2 as it got some +improvements in event handling speed. + + Changes: - Added support for disabling interactivity for specific data series @@ -8,15 +38,12 @@ Changes: - Flot now calls $() on the placeholder and optional legend container passed in so you can specify DOM elements or CSS expressions to make - it easier to use Flot with libraries like Prototype or Mootools. + it easier to use Flot with libraries like Prototype or Mootools or + through raw JSON from Ajax responses. - A new "plotselecting" event is now emitted while the user is making - selection. + a selection. -- Added a new crosshairs feature for tracing the mouse position on the - axes, enable with crosshair { mode: "x"} (see the new tracking - example for a use). - - The "plothover" event is now emitted immediately instead of at most 10 times per second, you'll have to put in a setTimeout yourself if you're doing something really expensive on this event. @@ -49,10 +76,6 @@ Changes: set to true connects the points with horizontal/vertical steps instead of diagonal lines. -- Thresholding: you can set a threshold and a color, and the data - points below that threshold will then get the color. Useful for - marking data below 0, for instance. - - The legend labelFormatter now passes the series in addition to just the label (suggestion by Vincent Lemeltier). @@ -62,6 +85,48 @@ Changes: don't have to start from the axis. This can be used to make stacked bars. +- New option to disable the (grid.show). + +- Added pointOffset method for converting a point in data space to an + offset within the placeholder. + +- Plugin system: register an init method in the $.flot.plugins array + to get started, see PLUGINS.txt for details on how to write plugins + (it's easy). There are also some extra methods to enable access to + internal state. + +- Hooks: you can register functions that are called while Flot is + crunching the data and doing the plot. This can be used to modify + Flot without changing the source, useful for writing plugins. Some + hooks are defined, more are likely to come. + +- Threshold plugin: you can set a threshold and a color, and the data + points below that threshold will then get the color. Useful for + marking data below 0, for instance. + +- Stack plugin: you can specify a stack key for each series to have + them summed. This is useful for drawing additive/cumulative graphs + with bars and (currently unfilled) lines. + +- Crosshairs plugin: trace the mouse position on the axes, enable with + crosshair: { mode: "x"} (see the new tracking example for a use). + +- Image plugin: plot prerendered images. + +- Navigation plugin for panning and zooming a plot. + +- More configurable grid. + +- Axis transformation support, useful for non-linear plots, e.g. log + axes and compressed time axes (like omitting weekends). + +- Support for twelve-hour date formatting (patch by Forrest Aldridge). + +- The color parsing code in Flot has been cleaned up and split out so + it's now available as a separate jQuery plugin. It's included inline + in the Flot source to make dependency managing easier. This also + makes it really easy to use the color helpers in Flot plugins. + Bug fixes: - Fixed two corner-case bugs when drawing filled curves (report and @@ -76,7 +141,7 @@ Bug fixes: problem reported by Sergio Nunes). - Updated mousemove position expression to the latest from jQuery (bug reported by meyuchas). -- Use borders instead of background in legend (fix printing issue 25 +- Use CSS borders instead of background in legend (fix printing issue 25 and 45). - Explicitly convert axis min/max to numbers. - Fixed a bug with drawing marking lines with different colors @@ -98,7 +163,15 @@ Bug fixes: with vertical lines. - Round tick positions to avoid possible problems with fractions (suggestion by Fred, issue 130). - +- Made the heuristic for determining how many ticks to aim for a bit + smarter. +- Fix for uneven axis margins (report and patch by Paul Kienzle) and + snapping to ticks (concurrent report and patch by lifthrasiir). +- Fixed bug with slicing in findNearbyItems (patch by zollman). +- Make heuristic for x axis label widths more dynamic (patch by + rickinhethuis). +- Make sure points on top take precedence when finding nearby points + when hovering (reported by didroe, issue 224). 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