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The PB Future: More on Graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5
New 3D rendering capability will be available for various 3D graph styles

By: Dave Fish
May. 15, 2008 01:30 PM

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Last week I posted a screen shot of the new 3D Rendering capabilities being added to some of the 3D graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5. It was met with mixed reviews on the PowerBuilder Futures newsgroup (forums.sybase.com) so I went back to the drawing board to see what I could come up with. Apparently there are quite a few configuration settings one can set programmatically to render better looking graphs.

For example, the primary color scheme default can be changed by making a couple of function calls for each data point or series. Here is a screen shot of an example application I am putting together to be released when 11.5 ships:


This feature is still in development so the legend doesn't take advantage of the translucency property yet.

Now let's look at a 3D chart that contains a series. First here is a screen shot of the original 3D graph style available in PowerBuilder 11.2 and earlier (and still available in 11.5 if you like the retro look):


Now let's see that same chart with the new 3D (DirectX) rendering turned on and translucency set on some of the series:



Looks a lot better. The new 3D rendering capability will be available for the following 3D graph styles: Area, Column, Pie, Bar, and Line. This should meet the majority of users' 3D graph needs. If you need something more powerful or want a wider selection of charting options, take a look at the FusionCharts demo available on CodeXchange here.
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About Dave Fish
Dave Fish is a PowerBuilder Evangelist for Sybase. He has been using PowerBuilder for 10 years and has written several articles on PowerBuilder and co-authored two PowerBuilder books. Dave has been a member of TeamSybase since 1994. Dave can be reached at dfish@sybase.com

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