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Flot 0.6

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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

  (request from Ronald Schouten and Steve Upton).

- 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 or

  through raw JSON from Ajax responses.

- A new "plotselecting" event is now emitted while the user is making

  a selection.

- 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.

- The built-in date formatter can now be accessed as

  $.plot.formatDate(...) (suggestion by Matt Manela) and even

  replaced.

- Added "borderColor" option to the grid (patch from Amaury Chamayou

  and patch from Mike R. Williamson).

- Added support for gradient backgrounds for the grid, take a look at

  the "setting options" example (based on patch from Amaury Chamayou,

  issue 90).

- Gradient bars (suggestion by stefpet).

- Added a "plotunselected" event which is triggered when the selection

  is removed, see "selection" example (suggestion by Meda Ugo);

- The option legend.margin can now specify horizontal and vertical

  margins independently (suggestion by someone who's annoyed).

- Data passed into Flot is now copied to a new canonical format to

  enable further processing before it hits the drawing routines. As a

  side-effect, this should make Flot more robust in the face of bad

  data (and fixes issue 112).

- Step-wise charting: line charts have a new option "steps" that when

  set to true connects the points with horizontal/vertical steps

  instead of diagonal lines.

- The legend labelFormatter now passes the series in addition to just

  the label (suggestion by Vincent Lemeltier).

- Horizontal bars (based on patch by Jason LeBrun).

- Support for partial bars by specifying a third coordinate, i.e. they

  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

  analysis by Joshua Varner).

- Fix auto-adjustment code when setting min to 0 for an axis where the

  dataset is completely flat on that axis (report by chovy).

- Fixed a bug with passing in data from getData to setData when the

  secondary axes are used (issue 65, reported by nperelman).

- Fixed so that it is possible to turn lines off when no other chart

  type is shown (based on problem reported by Glenn Vanderburg), and

  fixed so that setting lineWidth to 0 also hides the shadow (based on

  problem reported by Sergio Nunes).

- Updated mousemove position expression to the latest from jQuery (bug

  reported by meyuchas).

- 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

  (reported by Khurram).

- Fixed a bug with returning y2 values in the selection event (fix

  by exists, issue 75).

- Only set position relative on placeholder if it hasn't already a

  position different from static (reported by kyberneticist, issue 95).

- Don't round markings to prevent sub-pixel problems (reported by Dan

  Lipsitt).

- Make the grid border act similarly to a regular CSS border, i.e.

  prevent it from overlapping the plot itself. This also fixes a

  problem with anti-aliasing when the width is 1 pixel (reported by

  Anthony Ettinger).

- Imported version 3 of excanvas and fixed two issues with the newer

  version. Hopefully, this will make Flot work with IE8 (nudge by

  Fabien Menager, further analysis by Booink, issue 133).

- Changed the shadow code for lines to hopefully look a bit better

  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).

Flot 0.5

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Backwards API change summary: Timestamps are now in UTC. Also

"selected" event -> becomes "plotselected" with new data, the

parameters for setSelection are now different (but backwards

compatibility hooks are in place), coloredAreas becomes markings with

a new interface (but backwards compatibility hooks are in place).

Interactivity: added a new "plothover" event and this and the

"plotclick" event now returns the closest data item (based on patch by

/david, patch by Mark Byers for bar support). See the revamped

"interacting with the data" example for some hints on what you can do.

Highlighting: you can now highlight points and datapoints are

autohighlighted when you hover over them (if hovering is turned on).

Support for dual axis has been added (based on patch by someone who's

annoyed and /david). For each data series you can specify which axes

it belongs to, and there are two more axes, x2axis and y2axis, to

customize. This affects the "selected" event which has been renamed to

"plotselected" and spews out { xaxis: { from: -10, to: 20 } ... },

setSelection in which the parameters are on a new form (backwards

compatible hooks are in place so old code shouldn't break) and

markings (formerly coloredAreas).

Timestamps in time mode are now displayed according to

UTC instead of the time zone of the visitor. This affects the way the

timestamps should be input; you'll probably have to offset the

timestamps according to your local time zone. It also affects any

custom date handling code (which basically now should use the

equivalent UTC date mehods, e.g. .setUTCMonth() instead of

.setMonth().

Added support for specifying the size of tick labels (axis.labelWidth,

axis.labelHeight). Useful for specifying a max label size to keep

multiple plots aligned.

Markings, previously coloredAreas, are now specified as ranges on the

axes, like { xaxis: { from: 0, to: 10 }}. Furthermore with markings

you can now draw horizontal/vertical lines by setting from and to to

the same coordinate (idea from line support patch by by Ryan Funduk).

The "fill" option can now be a number that specifies the opacity of

the fill.

You can now specify a coordinate as null (like [2, null]) and Flot

will take the other coordinate into account when scaling the axes

(based on patch by joebno).

New option for bars "align". Set it to "center" to center the bars on

the value they represent.

setSelection now takes a second parameter which you can use to prevent

the method from firing the "plotselected" handler. 

Using the "container" option in legend now overwrites the container

element instead of just appending to it (fixes infinite legend bug,

reported by several people, fix by Brad Dewey).

Fixed a bug in calculating spacing around the plot (reported by

timothytoe). Fixed a bug in finding max values for all-negative data

sets. Prevent the possibility of eternal looping in tick calculations.

Fixed a bug when borderWidth is set to 0 (reported by

Rob/sanchothefat). Fixed a bug with drawing bars extending below 0

(reported by James Hewitt, patch by Ryan Funduk). Fixed a

bug with line widths of bars (reported by MikeM). Fixed a bug with

'nw' and 'sw' legend positions. Improved the handling of axis

auto-scaling with bars. Fixed a bug with multi-line x-axis tick

labels (reported by Luca Ciano). IE-fix help by Savage Zhang.

Flot 0.4

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API changes: deprecated axis.noTicks in favor of just specifying the

number as axis.ticks. So "xaxis: { noTicks: 10 }" becomes

"xaxis: { ticks: 10 }"

Time series support. Specify axis.mode: "time", put in Javascript

timestamps as data, and Flot will automatically spit out sensible

ticks. Take a look at the two new examples. The format can be

customized with axis.timeformat and axis.monthNames, or if that fails

with axis.tickFormatter.

Support for colored background areas via grid.coloredAreas. Specify an

array of { x1, y1, x2, y2 } objects or a function that returns these

given { xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax }.

More members on the plot object (report by Chris Davies and others).

"getData" for inspecting the assigned settings on data series (e.g.

color) and "setData", "setupGrid" and "draw" for updating the contents

without a total replot.

The default number of ticks to aim for is now dependent on the size of

the plot in pixels. Support for customizing tick interval sizes

directly with axis.minTickSize and axis.tickSize.

Cleaned up the automatic axis scaling algorithm and fixed how it

interacts with ticks. Also fixed a couple of tick-related corner case

bugs (one reported by mainstreetmark, another reported by timothytoe).

The option axis.tickFormatter now takes a function with two

parameters, the second parameter is an optional object with

information about the axis. It has min, max, tickDecimals, tickSize.

Added support for segmented lines (based on patch from Michael

MacDonald) and for ignoring null and bad values (suggestion from Nick

Konidaris and joshwaihi). 

Added support for changing the border width (joebno and safoo).

Label colors can be changed via CSS by selecting the tickLabel class.

Fixed a bug in handling single-item bar series (reported by Emil

Filipov). Fixed erratic behaviour when interacting with the plot

with IE 7 (reported by Lau Bech Lauritzen). Prevent IE/Safari text

selection when selecting stuff on the canvas.

Flot 0.3

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This is mostly a quick-fix release because jquery.js wasn't included

in the previous zip/tarball.

Support clicking on the plot. Turn it on with grid: { clickable: true },

then you get a "plotclick" event on the graph placeholder with the

position in units of the plot.

Fixed a bug in dealing with data where min = max, thanks to Michael

Messinides.

Include jquery.js in the zip/tarball.

Flot 0.2

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Added support for putting a background behind the default legend. The

default is the partly transparent background color. Added

backgroundColor and backgroundOpacity to the legend options to control

this.

The ticks options can now be a callback function that takes one

parameter, an object with the attributes min and max. The function

should return a ticks array.

Added labelFormatter option in legend, useful for turning the legend

labels into links.

Fixed a couple of bugs.

The API should now be fully documented.

Patch from Guy Fraser to make parts of the code smaller.

API changes: Moved labelMargin option to grid from x/yaxis.

Flot 0.1

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First public release.