It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the first “Futures” Build of RadControls “Prometheus”. We are dedicated to involve the community early in the development process and to hear your feedback along the way towards our Q2 release in September. The first “Futures” Build introduces two new controls in the “Prometheus” suite: the brand new RadScheduler as well as a much improved new version of RadChart.
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Key Highlights of the new additions in the RadControls “Prometheus” suite:
RadScheduler:
- Day, Week and Month View provide excellent flexibility for displaying appointments
- Inline and Advanced editing capabilities
- RadScheduler is shipped with a set of skins that allow you to build slick interfaces. The skin can be easily switched using a single property. (More skins will be added in the upcoming “Futures” Builds)
- Custom resources add flexibility to your schedules and allow you to assign appointments to different users (for instance)
- Recurring appointments are fully supported by RadScheduler
- RadScheduler’s flexible API and events provide numerous convenient options for customization
- Rich client-side behavior: appointments can be rescheduled through drag and drop and resizing
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RadChart:
- RadChart now introduces a new rendering engine which optimizes performance and produces a polished chart image
- RadChart now supports spline curve areas. The curve behaves the same way the normal spline curve does, but also offers the possibility to fill the belonging area.
- RadChart now features a so-called "strict mode" for bar series. All XValues will be respected and bars will be positioned according to their XValues. If, however, you don't have any series items with XValues then RadChart will resume standard sequential ordering of each item.
- RadChart now supports empty values approximation. If your dataset is missing a value RadChart can approximate it for you.
- Scalebreaks are a new feature of RadChart which allows you to "break off" large chunks of the axis so that graphs with great amplitudes are easier to read.
- The new intelligent labels feature of RadChart dramatically increases readability in very busy charts.
- The charting engine now supports newline in all chart labels
- The new Marked Zones now provide another option for chart customization
ONLINE DEMOS
RadControls “Prometheus” Futures Build is intended for preview only and we do not recommend using the bits in production. The controls are still in development and QA phase.
It is our goal to produce regular “Futures” Builds in the coming weeks towards the Q2 release in September. RadWindow and RadEditor are the next controls to be added in the “Futures” Builds. Your feedback will be highly appreciated – please do not hesitate to share any suggestions or comments you might have.
Best Regards,
Telerik Team