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<H1 CLASS="western"><FONT SIZE="4" STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Info for the Developer
Snapshot of the chart reimplementation from 1st&nbsp;September 2006 (Milestone
8)</FONT></H1>
<P>The chart reimplementation is still ongoing. In the following you find a list of
recently fixed issues and an overview of working and non working areas to give
you an idea of what you can expect from this developer snapshot.</P>
<H2 CLASS="western">Installation Hints:</H2>
<P>You will get no system integration with this version at all.</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P>Windows: Just exrtact the zip file to YOUDIRECTORY and start
YOUDIRECTORY\openoffice_chart2_milestone8\program\soffice.exe</P>
<LI>
<P>Linux: Just exrtact the tar.gz file to YOUDIRECTORY and start
YOUDIRECTORY/openoffice_chart2_milestone8/program/soffice</P>
<LI>
<P>Solaris: Just exrtact the tgz file to YOUDIRECTORY and start
YOUDIRECTORY/openoffice_chart2_milestone8/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice</P>
</LI>
</UL>
<H2 CLASS="western">Fixed:</H2>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Chart Data Table (available with own data)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Axis labels and plot area size do respect font size
and diagram size now (<A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27354" NAME="27354">27354</A>)</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Autoscaling of Axis (Min, Max, automatic
major step count dependent on Fontsize etc.)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Automatic Layout of Axis labels (<A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27355" NAME="27355">27355</A>)</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known issue: The automatic 'break' feature
is not implemented yet, I would like to know wether someone is missing this or
all are more satisfied with the current implementation</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT SIZE="3">Font sizes of axis are not
loaded correctly (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65997" NAME="65997"><FONT SIZE="3">65997</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="3">)</FONT></FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Sorting of x values in xy charts (<A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46521" NAME="46521">46521</A>)</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Statusbar</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Tooltips ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27352">
27352</A> )</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">High Contrast mode ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27356">
27356</A> )</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Big charttype icons in wizard (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69120" NAME="69120"><FONT SIZE="2">69120</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="2">)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Font and Symbol sizes of data labels do not resize
with diagram (note: you need to enable the toolbar button 'Scale Text') ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29600">
29600</A> )</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Export Meta Stream in XML for Charts to be
able to detect written version</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT SIZE="3">Cancel button in chart wizard
does not work in writer (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66176"><FONT SIZE="3">Issue
66176</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="3">)</FONT></FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Loaded net charts now display the
categories</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Loading of donut charts differentiates between
correct new files and wrong old files now (<A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58457" NAME="58457">58457</A>)</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Excel Import (<FONT SIZE="2">Stockcharts,Errorbars,Trendlines</FONT>)
</FONT>
</P>
</LI>
</UL>
<H2 CLASS="western">Testable areas:</H2>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Property Dialogs for different chart elements</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">General tabpages: Line, Area, Transparency,
Characters, Font Effects, Numbers</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">( Line Tabpage has an additional control group 'Icon'
for series with symbols )</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Font Preview shows wrong text (<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26572">26572</A>)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Gradient Property 'StepCount'
does not work</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Fillstyles are partly not
applied to the correct side of objects (e.g. Bottom)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Chart specific tabpages:</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Legend: Position page</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Title: Alignment page</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Axis: Scale page and Label page ( Scale and Numbers
page only for y axis )</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: 'Axis at' proerty is broken (<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61970">61970</A>)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Series: Statistic page, Data Label page, Layout page
and Options page ( potentially different for different charttypes)</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">Missing tabpage 'Transparency' for Symbols
(<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26666">26666</A>)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Position and Size Dialog</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Base Point does not work
correct (<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26490">26490</A>)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: sizing controls need to be
disabled for Title and Legend (<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26488">26488</A>)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert dialogs:</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Title</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Axis</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Grids</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Legend</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert DataLabels</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">Known bug: Legend Symbols missing if
symbol style is automatic</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">Known bug: Position of data point labels
for stacked 3D column charts with negative values</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">Known bug: Percent values</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Statistic</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Insert Special Character</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug:Only one special character
inserted</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: only offers 256 item set</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">3D View Dialog</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Charttype Dialog</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Wizard</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: 3D scheme should be selected at
the beginning</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: prevent the in-between display
of a default chart</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Icon Colors need to be adapted</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Performance</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Data Ranges Dialog</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Range Choose Button does not
work</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Chart Data Table (only available with own
data)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Menu and Context-menu (all enabled entries except
Cut, Copy, Paste)</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: some menu entries are wrongly
disabled (e.g. print)- ignore them for now</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">Icons for menu entries</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Load and Save of all own formats with all features to
all formats with all features (5.2,6.0,7.0,8.0 Chart in Calc, in Writer, in
Impress and Standalone(5.2 only) with own data or data from calc or writer
table)</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Loading of categories and
series names with own data fails</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: crash with donut charts ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=63570">
63570</A> )</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Loaded 3D Line chart: isn't
stacked deep</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Load 3D Lines with 2<SUP>nd</SUP>
axis -&gt; one series lost</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Export and reload to 5.2
format: Line Chart</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Export and reload to 5.2
format: Pie Chart</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Export and reload to 5.2
format: 3D Charts</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Export and reload to 5.2
format: 2nd axis chart in calc is reimported wrongly</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Export and reload to 5.2
format: chart in writer from writer tables is reimported wrongly (charts
completely empty)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Import of manually scaled
percent charts has to cope with Fileformat Error in 8.0 and older Versions (see
i59288 for 8.0)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Some old documents which are
created by copying a chart from somewhere to somewhere have a bug in the
fileformat and are empty when loaded with the new chart</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Excel Import</FONT></P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Donutcharts</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Combination charts - import,
sace as ods and reload does not work</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Manually positioned objects</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Undo</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Accessibility</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Display of legend entries</FONT></P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Legend entries: Symbols missing
if symbol style is automatic</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Autoscaling of Axis (Min, Max, automatic
major step count etc.)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Automatic Layout of Axis labels respecting
font size and diagram size</FONT></P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known issue: The automatic 'break' feature
is not yet implemented, I would like to know wether someone is missing this or
all are more satisfied with the current implementation</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Selection via mouse (please test the
current state for usability)</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Keyboard access</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Pie and Donut segment dragging (2D and 3D)</FONT></P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: the preview during dragging is
slightly wrong positioned</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Toolbar button: Rearrange chart</FONT></P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known issue: for 3D charts maybe lights
should be reset to default also</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Toolbar button: Auto scale text</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Statusbar</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Tooltips ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27352">
27352</A> )</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">High Contrast mode ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27356">
27356</A> )</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="2">known bug: Big charttype icons in wizard (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69120" NAME="69120"><FONT SIZE="2">69120</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="2">)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Font and Symbol sizes of data labels do not resize
with diagram (note you need to enable the toolbar button 'Scale Text') ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29600">
29600</A> )</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Export Meta Stream in XML for Charts to be
able to detect written version</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Sorting of x values in xy charts (see new
checkbox in charttype dialog for XY charts)</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
<H2 CLASS="western">Do not test:</H2>
<UL>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Chart section under Tools/Options</FONT></P>
<LI VALUE="1">
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Disabling/Enabling of Menu entries</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Toolbar</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Help Content</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Display of Mousepointer</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Performance</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Selection Of Points in Line Charts</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Pie Label Font Sizes</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Clipboard ( <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64497">
64497</A>, <A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64500">64500</A>
)</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Drag and Drop of Data to chart</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Data Point Symbol Sizes do not resize with
Page</FONT></P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm">Chart updates after data changes in Calc or Writer (<A HREF="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=63944">Issue
63944</A>, ...)</P>
<LI>
<P STYLE="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT SIZE="3">Excel Export</FONT></P>
</LI>
</UL>
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