v1.5.7

[matoos32]

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An annotations and date-tick label feature release, but with other improvements. Migrates the demo app into jfreechart-builder.

Full Changelog

v1.5.6...v1.5.7

What's Changed

1. Adds new builders for previously unsupported annotations
   • XYDataImageBuilder (for DateAxis (with time gaps) only - see issue XYDataImageAnnotation solution for gapless charts #77)
   • XYDrawableBuilder
   • XYImageBuilder
   • XYPolygonBuilder
   • XYShapeBuilder (for DateAxis (with time gaps) only - see issue XYShapeAnnotation solution for Gapless Charts #69)
   • XYTitleAnnotation
2. Adds ability to set the XYArrowBuilder arrow length and tip radius.
3. Adds solution for synchronizing crosshairs on combined plot shared-axis sub-plots (see ChartCombinedAxisClickDispatcher and README).
4. Adds more gridline control.
5. Adds date tick label format control using java.text.SimpleDateFormat or java.text.DateFormat.
6. Adds a convenience, minimal date format, date tick label formatter (see MinimalDateFormat and README)
7. Migrates the jfreechart-builder-demo solution into this repo.
   • To reduce the development and release burden.
   • Without this, commits and releases in two separate repos must be managed.
   • Adds visibility of the demo/test app.
   • See JFreeChartBuilderDemo.
8. Tech-debt cleanups:
   • Breaking changes:
     • Rename LineBuilder to MarkerBuilder for reflecting the underlying jfreechart ValueMarker.
     • XYTimeSeriesPlotBuilder's line() method renamed to marker()
     • XYTimeSeriesPlotBuilder and XYTimeSeriesPlotBuilderElements "line" references renamed to "marker"
     • Remove gridLines() noGridLines() showGridLines() from XYTimeSeriesPlotBuilderElements but risk is low as this is an internal class.
     • Add new adapters sub-package.
     • Move data-structure classes to types sub-package.
   • Fixes to continue supporting Java 8 per JFreeChart v1.5.3 minimum requirement.
   • Add missing Javadoc
9. By default major gridlines are now configured ON with default styling.
10. Extracts a few convenience color constants to BuilderConstants.
11. General README updates.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.5.7.

[matoos32]

Well, this was fun. There were almost 7000 lines of code involved with this release. Happy to have worked on this and hopefully the community will find it useful.

Let me know what you think.

What new features would you like to see?

Happy coding!