xmCHART Changelog

What's new in xmCHART 4.0.10

May 8, 2019
  • All xmCHART 4.0.10 plug-ins are code signed.
  • Issue closing the About Box of xmCHART in FileMaker Preferences fixed (macOS).
  • Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.9 (Oct 4, 2018)

  • Fixed concurrency issues when using xmCHART in combination with FileMaker WebDirect.
  • Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.8 (May 19, 2018)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • BarChart2D(): Improved support of stacked bar charts containing NULL values.
  • PieChartLabelOptions(): Improved positioning method for inner labels. (see example)
  • FillColorScale(): 4 new color scales added.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.7 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • BarcodeQR(): Improved support of non-ASCII characters.
  • BarcodeQR(): Error correction flag added. (see examples)
  • Memory leakage fixed (macOS).
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.6 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • New function LegendTitle() added. (see examples)
  • AxisOptions(): Easy mirroring of axes added. (see examples)
  • Clipping of bar charts improved.
  • Crash when closing xmCHART on macOS 10.9 fixed.
  • Fixed issues with stacked bar charts containing NULL values.
  • Fixed issues when adding connecting lines to bar charts.
  • Fixed an issue with engineering output format.
  • Fixed an issue with PieChartAuxLines() function.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.5 (Apr 6, 2016)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • Improved support of bar charts with negative values (see example)
  • New format specifier "!" (exclamation mark) displays the absolute value of a number.
  • Bubble charts: New option useSymbolsAsBubbles added (see example)
  • BarStyle(): Optional parameter alignment added. (see example)
  • FillColorScale(): 4 new color scales added.
  • xmCH_GetMouse(): Mouse support for zoomed windows and for full screen mode added.
  • HeatMap(): Fixed issue when number of values doesn't match with number of cells.
  • SVG export: Fixed issue displaying shadow effects.
  • Fixed issue when mixing straight and curly quotation marks.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.4 (Oct 13, 2015)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • Ready for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • xmCHART plug-in installer for easy installation added.
  • AddPath(): New path command letters H, V, S and T added.
  • Legend: Support of line and marker shadows added.
  • SVG export: Displaying texts containing whitespace improved.
  • Arrowheads: Optimized alignment of arrowheads.
  • Arrowheads: Fixed a bug that caused arrowheads to be redrawn multiple times.
  • Barcodes: Fixed a Codabar barcode bug.
  • Histogram: Fixed issue displaying wrong fill colors.
  • Date & Time: Fixed date order bug.
  • Memory leakage fixed.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.3 (Jun 8, 2015)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • Ready for the FileMaker 14 family of products.
  • Free-to-use chart-gallery database added with over 200 example scripts (part of the download package).
  • BarChart2D: Fixed bug for very small scaling ranges.
  • Bar and Gantt charts: Optimized alignment of bars with no gaps.
  • Area charts: Support of drop lines added.
  • Area charts: Displaying gaps for NULL data implemented.
  • Area charts: Fixed legend bug in combination with useLineStyle flag.
  • Fine-tuned position of legend markers.
  • Fixed issue displaying texts with color gradients.
  • Resolved an issue when using fractional seconds.
  • Improved symbol clipping.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in xmCHART 4.0.2 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Newly Added Features and Bug Fixes:
  • xmCHART 4.0 Quick Reference application (part of the download package).
  • Area charts: Support of error bars and trend lines (curve fitting) added.
  • Function ChartDataOptions(): New data scan option added.
  • Trend lines (curve fitting): Support of NULL data added.
  • Pie charts: Fill color bug fixed.
  • Texts: Shadow opacity bug fixed.
  • Arrowheads: Shadow bug fixed.
  • Date & Time: Time initialization error fixed.
  • Windows 7 Invalid HResult bug fixed.
  • Memory leakage fixed.

New in xmCHART 4.0 Beta (Dec 21, 2013)

  • New graphic engine rewritten from scratch for better  performance and image quality.
  • Fast hardware accelerated Direct2D rendering on Windows OS.
  • Enhanced external functions.
  • New chart types: heat maps, tree maps, vector charts.
  • Barcodes: QRCode, PDF417, EAN, etc.
  • Shading, glow and shadow effects for all charts and  graphic elements.
  • Enhanced and improved symbol collection.
  • Support of round and angled bar ends.
  • New alternative line smoothing algorithm.
  • Import of Base64 encoded images directly from FileMaker.
  • Import and export of high resolution images.
  • New and improved export to SVG.
  • Improved support for non-western fonts.
  • Full Unicode support.
  • All code is now 64-bit clean.
  • Ready for FileMaker 13, FileMaker 13 Advanced and  FileMaker 12 and 13 Server.
  • Numerous bug fixes.

New in xmCHART 3.4.6 (Apr 11, 2012)

  • Scripts containing No-Break Spaces (U+00A0) are now properly supported.
  • Pie chart: round off error fixed.
  • Pie chart with vertical offsets: hidden line bug fixed.
  • Bar chart with a reference value ≠ 0: Zero values are now shown correctly.
  • Arrow head drawing improved.

New in xmCHART 3.4.5 (Aug 8, 2011)

  • New example databases added
  • Enhanced Radar and Polar charts
  • Bug fixes

New in xmCHART 3.4.4 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Mac OS X: ATSU error, resolved with a silent fallback on the default font.
  • Mac OS X: Cursor position bug resolved. On rarly occuring occations a wrong cursor position was returned by xmCH_GetMouse().
  • Bar and Gantt Charts: Fixed a cosmetic issue related to cylindric bars.
  • Radar and Polar Charts: Arrows with optional heads on both ends are now supported correctly.

New in xmCHART 3.4.3 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Pie Chart: Optional auxiliary line is suppressed when no label text is set
  • Box Plot: Linear interpolation for the percentile calculation has been replaced by rounding

New in xmCHART 3.4.2 (Mar 15, 2010)

  • Color schemes
  • Cylinder bar charts
  • PDF metadata support
  • New VersionAutoUpdate function
  • Calendar with mouse support
  • New and improved example databases
  • Bug fixes

New in xmCHART 3.3.3 (Jan 9, 2009)

  • The new location of the status bar in FileMaker Pro 10 will be properly taken into account when calculating the current mouse coordinates.

New in xmCHART 3.3.2 (May 12, 2008)

  • PDF support on Windows
  • New BarChart-2D, HighLowChart-2D, Candlestick-2D charts
  • Over 20 new unlocked example databases (Gantt charts, appointment calendar, etc.)
  • Ready for IWP and CWP PHP (Windows and Mac OS X)
  • Improved reference application
  • Updated documentation
  • Fixes a bug regarding PNG images in PDF on Windows.
  • Numerous bug fixes.