KD Chart is a tool for creating business charts
KD Chart is the most powerful Qt component of its kind! Besides having all the standard features, it enables the developer to design and manage a large number of axes and provides sophisticated customization.
KD Chart utilizes the Qt Model-View programming model and allows for re-use of existing data models to create charts. KD Chart is a complete implementation of the ODF (OpenDocument) Chart specification. It now includes Stock Charts, Box & Whisker Charts and the KD Gantt module for implementing ODF Gantt charts into applications.
Gantt charts are often used for project planning and creating visualizations of dependencies across data sets. With the addition of KD Gantt to KD Chart, users now have a more comprehensive charting solution at a competitive price.
KD Chart brings detailed and precise specifications to chart layout. Users can augment designs by adding rotated customrich text boxes and frames to data points and random positions. KD Chart is extremely configurable and can easily scale to the data at hand, automatically adjusting font sizes and layout when resizing.
With the sophisticated “cell-specific properties” technique included in KD Chart, you can:
- highlight individual data points or bars
- define a special line style for a part of your chart
- display additional horizontal or vertical lines pointing to or intersecting a data point and much, much more.
Reasonable default settings for all properties allow users to quickly and efficiently create userfriendly charts with high level functionality in Qt programs. The current version of the KOffice productivity suite uses our library. Other users include Boeing, Siemens, and Scania.
Chart types supported
In addition to Gantt charts the current version includes:
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Bar charts: horizontal and vertical, 2D and simulated 3D, normal, stacked, percent
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Line charts: 2D and simulated 3D, with and without markers, lines, normal, stacked, percent
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Pie charts: 2D and simulated 3D
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Polar diagrams: 2D
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Ring Diagrams: 2D and simulated 3D
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Stock Charts: 2D
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Area Charts: 2D simulated 3D, stacked, normal, percent
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With the plotter type it is possible to create any kind of diagrams that rely on lines and markers.
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Examples for bubble charts exist, which have a 2D and a simulated 3D mode.
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Scatter charts can be implemented the same way but they don’t have a simulated 3D Mode.
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Usage Integrating the KD Chart engine into your own applications and customizing it to your needs, is usually a simple task. For quick results, the ready-to-use KDChartWidget class may be instantiated to add chart widgets to your application. For full control, you can use the charting engine to draw directly onto a QPainter provided by your application.
Interfacing with the Qt Model-View API makes using KD Chart in Qt applications a straightforward process. Displaying multiple charts for the same set of data becomes simple. KD Chart’s added chart types means that OpenDocument ISO standard support is more complete.
The KD Chart package not only includes a programmer’s manual, but also a reference manual, plenty of tutorial files, and the complete source code. KD Chart can be used in a variety of programs for many different purposes.
The above example shows how KD Chart is used for visualizing flood events in a river. The images below show how KD Chart is used for monitoring seismic activity.
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KD Chart allows many options – the list of features presented above is far from complete. Using KD Chart, you can quickly and efficiently create user-friendly programs with professional looking charts in Qt. The KD Chart engine supports several types of charts. See below for samples taken from the KD Chart tutorial. KD Chart supports Qt versions 5 and 6.
KD Chart is available free from github.com/KDAB/kdchart and documentation for all products at docs.kdab.com.
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