SciChart v3.1 in QA (Test Phase) before Release

A quick update for our users. SciChart v3.1 is in QA (Test Phase) and is about to be released. A full release note with code-samples for new features will be put on the site at www.scichart.com/news/ once the release has gone out.

As a heads up, this is what we’ve done for v3.1 which you will be able to get soon!

Improvements

• New RolloverTooltip Trigger behaviours to control when rollovers are shown
  • E.g. Show on hover, always, mouse over, mouse leave etc…
• Rollover and Rollover Legend has been integrated natively to SciStockChart
• Labels / Rollover Tooltips are now configurable via DataTemplates
• SciChart Legend has been integrated to the LegendModifier, allowing for easy addition of a legend to a chart
• Ability to dock a legend inside a SciChartSurface and simplifying legend placement
• Added SeriesMarkers (point markers) inside a legend per item
• SeriesValueModifier is improved, now shows the latest series value in a viewport and dims the marker if the user has scrolled back in time
• Resize Grips now stylable on Annotations
• VisibleRange Anchoring – you can now anchor one end of a VisibleRange in AutoRange, e.g. allow chart to AutoRange VisibleRange.Max, but set VisibleRange.Min always zero.

Bug Fixes

• RenderableSeries.IsSelected property binding issues
• HitTest and Visibility issues
• MultiPane Stock Charts Zoom Extents button doesn’t work
• Some bug fixes when mixing ChartModifiers – one doesn’t react when it should
• Resize problem in Multi Pane Stock Charts when resizing panes
• Various crash bugs and exceptions, helpful exception messages added
• LabelFormatter / Printing Tutorials now up to date with samples

Refactor of Non-Public API in Progress

As part of our work towards exciting new directions in SciChart we are refactoring the code-base. For instance, SciChartSurface now inherits SciChartSurfaceBase and ISciChartSurfaceBase, IRenderableSeries now inherits IRenderableSeriesBase, IChartModifier now inherits IChartModifierBase.

Q: If I get a compilation error in v3.1 and it sounds like the above, what should I do? 

Simply contact support. We don’t have enough test-data to check all of our non-public API still compiles with the variety of applications out there, but any breakages we are happy to fix for those in support-period.

Q: Why are you doing this? 

All will be revealed! We are working towards exciting new directions in SciChart and this requires refactoring some of the code at a deep level to share more code between SciChart and our new adventure.