Testable areas in the Respin of the Beta developer snapshot of the chart reimplementation  (Milestone 9b)

The chart reimplementation is still ongoing. In the following you find an overview of working and non working areas to give you an idea of what you can expect from this developer snapshot. Please help with testing thus we can assure to not introduce severe regression when replacing the old chart.

Please don't test this areas as they are still under construction:

• Drag and Drop of Data to chart

• Copy and Paste of whole chart ( 64497)

• Chart updates after data changes in Calc or Writer

• Help Content

• Performance

Please test all other areas:

• Wizard

  • known bug: 3D scheme should be selected at the beginning

  • known bug: prevent the in-between display of a default chart

  • known bug: Performance

• Charttype Dialog

• Data Ranges Dialog

• Chart Data Table (available when the chart has own data)

• 3D View Dialog

• Property Dialogs for different chart elements

  • General tabpages: Line, Area, Transparency, Characters, Font Effects, Numbers

    • ( Line Tabpage has an additional control group 'Icon' for series with symbols )

    • known bug: Font Preview shows wrong text (26572)

  • Chart specific tabpages:

    • Legend: Position page

    • Title: Alignment page

    • Axis: Scale page and Label page ( Scale and Numbers page only for y axis )

    • Series: Statistic page, Data Label page, Layout page and Options page ( potentially different for different charttypes)

      • Missing tabpage 'Transparency' for Symbols (26666)

• Position and Size Dialog

• Insert dialogs:

  • Insert Title

  • Insert Axis

  • Insert Grids

  • Insert Legend

  • Insert DataLabels

    • Known bug: Position of data point labels for stacked 3D column charts with negative values

    • Known bug: Percent values

  • Insert Statistic

  • Insert Special Character

    • known bug:Only one special character inserted (125904)

    • known bug: only offers 256 item set (125905)

• Chart section under Tools/Options

• Load and Save of all own formats with all features to all formats with all features (5.2,6.0,7.0,8.0 Chart in Calc, in Writer, in Impress and Standalone(5.2 only) with own data or data from calc or data from writer)

  • known bug: Some old documents which are created by copying a chart from somewhere to somewhere have a bug in the fileformat and are empty when loaded with the new chart

  • known bug: Import of manually scaled percent charts has to cope with Fileformat Error in 8.0 and older Versions (see i59288 for 8.0)

  • known bug: some 5.2 format issues

• Excel Import

  • known bug: Donut charts

  • known bug: Combination charts – import, save as ods and reload does not work

• Excel Export

• Menu and Context-menu

  • known issue: You need to click left first otherwise the menu entry 'Object Properties' is wrongly disabled

• Toolbar

  • known issue: Save button is disabled (but save via menu works)

  • known issue: Rearrange chart: for 3D charts maybe lights should be reset to default also

• Selection via mouse (including correct mouse pointer display)

• Pie and Donut segment dragging (2D and 3D)

• Keyboard access

• Undo

• Tooltips (27352)

• Statusbar (68861)

• Accessibility

• High Contrast mode (27356)

  • known bug: Big chart type icons in wizard (69120)

• Automatic Scaling of Axis (Min, Max, automatic major step count etc.)

• Automatic Layout of Axis labels respecting font size and diagram size

• Display of legend entries

• Resize of Fonts while resizing the diagram size when toolbar button 'Scale Text' is active (check titles, legend entries, axis label and datapoint label)

• Export Meta Stream in XML for Charts to be able to detect the version with wich the file was saved

• Sorting of x values in xy charts (see new checkbox in charttype dialog for XY charts)