VARCHART XTree - Features

VARCHART XTree

Product Features

Interactions available to the user

creating, deleting or moving nodes and subtrees
editing data of nodes
collapsing and expanding subtrees
optimal layout of tree structures by a combination of horizontal and vertical arrangements of subtrees
continuous zooming and autoscrolling of diagrams
integrated worldview (complete view) for navigation purposes
integrated printing functionality with paging and page previews, title and legend
diagram export (formats: VMF, WMF, JPG, BMP, EPS, GIF, PCX, PNG, TIF)

Data can be loaded and stored to CSV files or via the application programming interface (API). Single data can be inserted, modified or deleted by user interaction.

The diagram conception

VARCHART XTree offers to the user a variety of options to visualize data for different applications:

You can choose, whether the structure of the tree is to be defined by a structure code or by the ID of the parent node.
The appearance of nodes (color, format, background, graphics file (*.bmp), etc.) can be specified by a variety of options.
The node appearance is assigned to the nodes in dependence on the data. (The data-controlled assignment is defined via maps or filters in form of Boole expressions.)
Several data fields can be displayed in a node in any order, size, font etc.
The appearance of link lines be specified.
The arrangement type and the state of collapsing can be stored and reloaded.
Nodes can be displayed in TreeView style.
The total height of a tree diagram arranged vertically can be limited by the number of levels.
OLE drag & drop operations in VARCHART XTree are compatible to the ones in Visual Basic.
The VARCHART XTree control can be inserted into a HTML page so that it will be visible in a browser.

Property Pages

The diagrams can be customized via the property pages. The powerful Application Programming Interface offers an amount of further options that can be modified at run time.

You can set all options to be adjusted by the user. Events let your application react to your customer's interactions (for example, to validate data). The Application Programming Interface contains an amount of properties, methods and events.

Optimal Usage in Web applications

VARCHART XTree's ability to export graphics into different formats (BMP, WMF, PCX, EPS, GIF, PNG, JPEG or VMF) allows you and your users to create data views that can be easily embedded into web pages. Our VMF export is a compact vector format that can be displayed in a browser and printed locally with the GRANEDA WebViewer, a Java applet. Graphics data in VMF format and the GRANEDA WebViewer can be easily downloaded via internet to any client. This allows the easy publishing of VARCHART XTree graphics on the internet. A server license of VARCHART XTree also allows the serverside graphics export and transferring of these graphics in a HTML page to any client on the internet. Let your customers use the browser environment to work with VARCHART XTree. You can deploy a VBScript Application with Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Technical Requirements

a 32 bit operating system Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP;

a development environment that supports the integration of ActiveX such as Visual Basic/VBA, Visual C++, Progress, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Centura or HTML using VBScript.