QCChart2D is a low cost charting toolkit for C# and Visual Basic .Net programmers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boston, Mass. - August 1, 2003 -
Quinn-Curtis, Inc. introduces
QCChart2D for
.Net, an object oriented, .Net based charting toolkit aimed
at developers who want to add sophisticated interactive charting graphics to their
C# and Visual Basic for .Net applications. The toolkit includes support for linear, logarithmic and
polar coordinate systems used by engineering and scientific end users. It also
includes support for advanced time/date coordinate systems required by business
end users, where weekends can be removed from the time scale, and where a day
can have a user-defined hourly range, for example: the 9:30AM to 4:00PM range
used in financial markets. Advanced user interface functions allow users to
interact with applications using the mouse: adding annotations, selecting,
marking and moving data points, and zooming into a particular chart region.
Feature for feature, this software can replace other .Net charting software that
costs anywhere from $300 to $5000 per developer. The QCChart2D software is sold as a single user Developer License
for $150. The user is entitled to free updates for two years. The developer version of the software can be downloaded for free
under a 30-day trial. A Redistributable License is required for the
redistribution or deployment of applications or web sites that use the software.
The cost per application or web site is $50.
The software consists of more than 100 classes. A brief summary of the major categories of classes
appears below.
 | Visual Studio .Net - Compatible with Visual Studio .Net Version
1.x and Microsoft .Net Framework Version 1.x. |
 | Plots - Line plots, area plots, bar plots, line marker plots, floating bars, scatter
plots, group plots, open-high-low-close plots, error bar plots, pie charts,
contour plots, candlestick plots, line gap plots, cell plots, histogram plots,
arrow plots, bubble plots, polar plots, multi-line plots and stacked line plots.
An unlimited number of plot objects can be combined in the same chart. |
 | Datasets - Datasets hold the data plotted in the chart. Charts can plot an unlimited
number of datasets, each dataset can contain an unlimited number of data points.
Datasets can hold numeric and DateTime based data. Mark data
points invalid, forcing a break in plotted lines. |
 | Coordinate Systems - Linear, logarithmic, time/date and polar coordinate systems. An unlimited number of
coordinate system, and axes, can be overlaid in the same plotting area of a
graph. |
 | Time/Date Coordinate Systems - The time/date scale is specified using
DateTime objects. The
time/date scales take into account the varying number of days in months and
years. The scales can also take into account non-continuous time/date scales
where a 5-day week is used, or where a full day consists of a specific time
interval that can be something less than a 24-hour day. For example, it is
possible to define a time/date scale where weekends are excluded and the day
consists of the hours between 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM. |
 | Axis - Linear, logarithmic, time/date and polar axis types. All axis types have
manual and auto-scaling modes for setting axis ranges. Axis auto-scaling modes
handle multiple datasets, group data and contour data. A chart can have an
unlimited number of axes. |
 | Axis Labels - Axes can have decimal, exponential, time, date, string and multi-line labels.
Programmers can define custom numeric and time/date axis labels. |
 | Chart Titles - Charts can have a main title, a subhead and a footer. Axes can have horizontal
and vertical titles. |
 | Axis Grids - Grid lines of any line style and color can highlight major and minor axis tick
marks. |
 | Export Images – Chart images can be exported using the JPEG format.
|
 | Import Images - Use .Net Image objects as plot elements in a chart, or as a
background object. |
 | Legends - Position horizontal and vertical legends anywhere in a chart. A chart can have
an unlimited number of legends. |
 | Mouse Interface - A group of classes implementing mouse event
delegates can locate,
select and move chart objects like data plots, axes, titles, and legends. |
 | Simple and Super Zooming - Zoom a simple xy axis pair, or simultaneous zoom an unlimited number of x- and
y-axes. |
 | Data Cursors - XOR data cursors are used to position the mouse cursor over data points in a
plot. |
 | Data Markers - Drop special marker symbols on to the data presented in a graph, much like a
bookmark in a word processing document. |
 | Text and Annotations - Add an unlimited number single and multi-line text objects, arrows and geometric
objects to a chart. |
 |
Data ToolTips - Select a data point with the mouse and popup a tooltip
window that displays the data x- and/or y-values for the data points.
Programmers can create custom information displays for tooltip windows. |
 | Data Compression - Large datasets
can be compressed, increasing display speed without loss of detail. |
 | Documentation and Demo/Example Programs - The software includes a comprehensive
400 page user manual with many programming examples, XML help for
every class and 75 complete demo programs. Every programming example, and
example program is presented in C# and Visual Basic. |
The software is written using C# and works with all platforms and browsers
compatible with .Net. The software has been tested and been proven compatible
with versions C# and Visual Basic for Visual Studio for .Net.

For More Information Contact:
Quinn-Curtis, Inc.
Medfield, MA
Tel: 508-359-6639
FAX: 508-960-2729
Internet:
info@quinn-curtis.com