We are proud to announce the availability of the long-awaited AnyChart 5.1.3 with new chart types and numerous fixes and improvements!

New chart types

• Radar Chart
  A radar chart is a graphical method of displaying multivariate data. Variables are represented on axes starting from the same point, where the relative position and angle of the axes is uninformative. It is also known as spider chart, star chart, kiviat diagram, etc. AnyChart allows displaying three types of series on radar charts: Line, Area and Marker.
• Polar Chart
  A polar chart is a plot drawn on a circular grid, showing trends in values on the basis of angles: each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and an angle from a fixed direction. AnyChart allows drawing Line, Area and Marker series on polar plots.

New features

• A new external method that allows animating updated values.
• New formatting keywords that allow controlling the number of characters in token: maxChar and maxCharFinalChars.
• New parameters in chartMouseMove, pointMouseOut, pointMouseOver events: mouseX and mouseY.
• Multiseries pie and donut charts can now use outside labels with connectors.

Bug fixes

• Minor missing values interpolation algorithm issue is fixed.
• Flex component “tooltip stick” problem is solved.
• Wrong positioning of labels for points with zero value is fixed.

Download AnyChart 5.1.3: http://www.anychart.com/download/
Version history: http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/

Today, AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts 1.3.0 is available. In the new version, several important improvements have been made:

New technical indicators

• Chaikin Money Flow
• Chaikin Oscillator
• Commodity Channel Index
• Directional Movement Index (DMI)

New features

• Ability to bind Y-Axis markers to series values to display chart data on the axis. Read more about this feature in User’s Guide article: Y-Axis Markers: Binding to series values.
• Ability to get data set content using the getDataSetCSV() method. You can see how it works in the following example: Online HTML/JS Sample Center: Exporting CSV data.
• A new method getCurrentYAxisInfo() that allows getting scale minimum, maximum and interval values when they are calculated automatically.

Bug fixes

• Grouping of data provider fields with “High” and “Low” approximation types was incorrect.
• Volume+MA indicator worked improperly with ma_period attribute. This error has been fixed.

Download AnyStock 1.3.0: http://www.anychart.com/download/
Version history: http://www.anychart.com/products/stock/history/
Roadmap: http://www.anychart.com/products/stock/roadmap/

A new version of AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is available - AnyStock 1.1.1.

In this version, a new navigation feature has been added: users can now quickly select a particular area of a plot by holding the SHIFT key and moving a mouse, the video below illustrates this feature (and you can do it yourself on any AnyStock chart):

There is also an update of our help materials: a new sample has been added to Online HTML/JS Samples Center: Synchronizing Selected ranges in Two Different Chart Objects.

Two bugs have been fixed. Firstly, when allow_edit attribute forbids editing annotations, the points beneath them are now highlighted correctly. Secondly, using the applySettingsChanges() method no longer makes annotations invisible, and doesn’t prevent from adding new annotations.

Here is the roadmap for future versions of AnyStock: http://anychart.com/products/stock/roadmap/

We are proud to release AnyStock 1.1.0 – a new version of Stock and Financial Charts component, where some significant features have been added:

Drawing tools and annotations
AnyStock 1.1.0 offers a complete set of shapes for technical analysis that can be added to the chart plot, both programmatically and via user interface. Already added objects are easy to move, change, and remove.

Available shapes include: line segments, rays, trend lines, vertical and horizontal lines, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, trend channels, Andrew’s pitchforks, Fibonacci fans, Fibonacci arcs, Fibonacci retracements, Fibonacci time-zones, buy/sell signals, and custom text labels to mark important points and trends discovered.

Check out the online demo of these tools: AnyChart Stock: Drawing Tools and Annotations Demo

Flex Component
Flex developers have received the great opportunity to use AnyStock and build smart scrollable charts into their rich internet applications and trading solutions.

Improvements
A huge performance improvement for mouse over the chart area has been made, as well as an improvement in range picker behavior: input values and input masks are now internally trimmed.

Misc
Besides that, a few bugs have been fixed and several minor features have been added, such as:

• a wide range of options that are intended to control the display of missing points;
• a new boolean attribute named adjust_margins that allows to add dynamic margins;
• the possibility to use RangeArea, RangeSplineArea or RangeBar series types to visualize Bollinger Bands;
• the possibility to configure event markers position.

Full list of fixes, features and improvements: http://anychart.com/products/stock/history/

You can take look at the product page: http://anychart.com/products/stock/overview/

Or download the new version: http://anychart.com/download/

Registered customers can obtain the latest build from the Customer Area.

We wish a happy Easter and a happy week ahead filled with energy and joy to all our existing and future clients!

By the way, a lot of great news is coming soon.

AnyStock with Drawing tools and Annotations will be available very soon - we plan to release version 1.1.0 on the 15th of April, along with other fixes and great new features.

Drawing tools are currently in beta stage, and we are eager to hear your comments and suggestions. Basically, AnyStock v 1.1.0 will provide you the ability to add line segments, rays, infinite lines, vertical and horizontal lines, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, trend channels, Andrew’s pitchforks, Fibonacci fans, Fibonacci arcs, Fibonacci retracements, Fibonacci time-zones, buy/sell signals, and custom text labels to the chart plot, with the ability to move, change, and remove already added objects.

Feel free to play with the demo presented below and to contact us if you have any questions or comments:

AnyStock Drawing Tools and Annotations Demo

With the increasing popularity of iOS devices gaining traction in the marketplace, AnyChart is proud to announce the upcoming release of AnyChart HTML5. The new version is planned for release in May of 2011. A private Beta will be distributed in April.

A demo version can be found here: http://anychart.com/html5/demo/

You can also take a look at a demo video, showing AnyChart at iPad:

A short Q & A with our HTML5 Lead developer Alex Batsuev:

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The public roadmap for AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is now available at this page: http://anychart.com/products/stock/roadmap/

There you can find the information about AnyChart Stock 1.1.0 – a new version that is coming April 15th with the following changes:

New features

• AnyChart Stock Flex component will be available, and all Flex developers will have access to the great features of AnyStock in a convenient manner. Full AnyStock Flex API will also be published.
• The end user will get the opportunity to use a variety of drawing tools such as Line segment, Ray, Discontinuous line, Vertical Line, Horizontal Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Trend channel, Andrew’s pitchfork, Fibonacci fan, Fibonacci arc, Fibonacci retracement, Fibonacci time-zones, Buy/Sell signals, Custom text labels and so on.
• It will be possible to use RangeArea, RangeSplineArea or RangeBar series types to visualize Bollinger Bands technical indicator. You will be able chose between two types of visualization: using two lines or using range based series.
• A new Boolean attribute named adjust_margins will be added to global time scale settings. This attribute will allow to add paddings that may be required when displaying Bar, RangeBar, OHLC or Candlestick series.
• Event markers appearance will become configurable. It will be possible to bind event markers to any field of series data provider.

Improvements

• The performance of mouse over the chart area will be sufficiently improved. Legends and tooltips will be updated faster.
• An improvement in range picker behavior will be made: input values and input masks will be internally trimmed.

Demos and help materials updates

• A default template with all the settings that are used in the inheritance process will be available in XML format.
• The full source code of AnyStock Technical Analysis Portal will be downloadable so that you could freely use it as a template for your project.

Bug fixes

• The current version of the component sometimes skips points while parsing CSV files - this bug will be fixed.
• In “PercentChanges” calculation mode of Y scales, negative values will be handled correctly.
• All interactive elements will correctly handle redrawing and update their focuses after data or event markers commits.
• The bug that in some conditions forces the chart to calculate maximum on scatter will be fixed.
• The external JavaScript method applySettingsChanges() is not able to switch data grouping on or off. This bug will be fixed.
• Incorrect work of the external JavaScript method removeEventMarkerGroup() will be fixed.

Don’t forget that we have a knowledgebase: http://www.anychart.com/kb

We have already written about it before: http://www.anychart.com/blog/2009/06/30/anychart-knowledge-base

We do our best to update it as and when necessary and recently have added a few articles:

AnyChart

• How to display all axis labels?
• Is it possible to refresh chart every X seconds?
• How to insert point custom attributes when data is in JSON format?

AnyGantt

• How to import MPP project into AnyGantt?

We want to note that this problem: Documentation doesn’t display properly in Internet Explorer 7 and later has lost relevance in AnyChart 5.1.2.5

P.S. We are very pleased that our customers often find a minute to thank us and we have eventually added a testimonials page: http://www.anychart.com/company/testimonials.php

Thanks to everybody who has spoken out or not.

Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and it is estimated that Twitter has 190 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day.

Now the AnyChart team has a Twitter account too: http://twitter.com/AnyChart

There we share our plans and interesting links, announce new entries in this blog and updates of our website as soon as they appear. Follow up and be the first to learn the news!