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I need to develop a web application in asp.net which needs to display
-bar charts
-pie charts,
-gauges,
-grids
with HTML 5 support. And able to export the content in PDF format.
As a winforms developer im not familiar with web technologies.
I have found these componenets
-Telerik web charts-- i didn't see gauge control
-Devxpress-- no info about HTML 5 support
-Kendo UI-- low export functionality
Could you please advise some other components or comment these to help me selecet proper one?
many thanks.
I had the same requirements (except that the backend technology could be whatever I wanted) and ended up creating the charts as images on the server. A bit memory intensive, but worked exceptionally well. I also created an old-fashioined image map to facilitate context-aware mouseover popups on the client.
The main reason I did it that way was, that whatever I tried, there was never a perfect fit between the chart as shown in the brwoser (with the added layer of difficulty that user could use whatever brwoser they wanted) and the PDF. Images ofcourse solved that.
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I'm looking for a website that duplicates at least some of the most basic features of Firebug, Chrome developer tools, etc, but that is simple enough for a non-developer to use.
At the very least, I want to be able to tell a non-developer to:
Visit http://checkthedom.com/sitethatneedschecking.com
Hover over a particular paragraph of text or some other element
Tell me font etc is used in that element
I need to find a web site that does this because I can't ask the non-developers to use bookmarklets or install browser plug-ins or to follow instructions that will vary depending on what particular browser they are using.
I've pasted an image below that shows what I want the non-developers to see.
Is there a website that does this?
A couple of sites I've tried do this:
XRAY
X-Ray Goggles
Although it doesn't show the CSS as a popup (it's on the right hand side of the window), the Firefox built-in 3D viewer might help visualise the site.
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Which is a better interface for designing an ASP.net application: drag and drop or manual positioning?
That defines on how you define "better".
"Better" in the sense that even an unskilled developer can get a webform up and running in no time: Use drag and drop.
"Better" in the sense that it gives a skilled developer more control over the generated HTML and CSS, potentially leading to
more robust layouting, compatible with a wide range of browsers, and
easier maintainance, due to a lack of unnecessary tags and attributes:
Use manual positioning and a lot of knowledge about HTML and CSS.
You use them all - anything to make the design you look for.
Drag Drop, Manual position, tweak changes, css write/change/delete/re-write, copy/paste, open close ten programs, search on google for other css, anything to make what you have on paper - and then is not good and you start over. Anything you can have you use it.
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I've been using Paint.NET to create mockups for my web application. They're pretty, and it's not hard to save the constituent graphical elements. However, the process of getting my layout into CSS is completely manual and time-consuming.
I'm aware there are better tools out there for this. Should I be looking at DreamWeaver? I'm not looking for any auto-generated web or data access functionality, and I'm happy to code all the behavior myself. I'm mostly looking for a great-looking layout editor that understands both layered imaging and CSS. (Preferably, one that can map a layered image to HTML and generate initial CSS with the right styling.)
Thanks in advance for any and all insight!
Jeff
A text editor, really.
It's time consuming, yes, but so is doing anything right. I have yet to use any program that builds the design of a website with a level of markup quality that I find even remotely acceptable. Where you may give a div a class of userInfo, most layout programs might give that div a class of style12 or something equally unhelpful. This results in unmaintainable markup, which is especially hard to build into a web application.
So learn how to do it by hand, and then do it by hand.
Axuer can be used to take mockups/prototypes and export as HTML/CSS: http://www.axure.com/
I only ever used it for prototyping.
There are no apps that will make it a css3, they apps that exist will give you a lot of image sprites and css2 and a lot of bugs you have to fix manually :/
So suggest coding it manually or hiring someone who does it(Kinda cheap these days even I would do it if I get paid well enough)
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Is there a "best" way to edit CSS?
I'm looking for a designer tool. It has to "visual"... less code.
Visual studio does a good job but it seems to be lacking when it comes to the actual design stage.
My suggestion is CSSEdit by MacRabbit. It's focused on just editing CSS, and is very visual without hiding code. You can edit CSS attributes through a GUI, or directly edit the text in the code. You can preview your work on any site, even applying your edited CSS to the display of live Web sites. As a plus or minus depending upon your platform of preference, it's a Mac only application.
Here's what I do:
Design the page semantically, using lists, headings, paragraphs etc.
Add classes and ids where appropriate.
Open the unstyled page in Firefox.
Open Firebug.
Write/edit the CSS there and see the results instantly.
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Is there a widget for GTK or Qt that would allow me to draw stock charts like this?
http://smartquant.com/openquant/openquant_chart.jpg
(copy&paste the URL due to hotlinking restriction)
Thanks, Joel
Qwt can handle it and Uwe Rathmann the main developer is active and helpfull
http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
mail thread on financial charting.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=78f82c3e0903191242m52567cb8ja2de6a273ed4b8be%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=qwt-interest
How about GTKGraph? Or see if you can pull something out of Grism? The author writes:
I draw stock charts using a
GtkDrawingArea and a Cairo context.
The charts are not animated, but if
you resize the chart window, the chart
automatically resizes (actually, it
performs a redraw).
There's KD Chart for Qt.
Try this: NightCharts.
But you should keep in mind, that it's a self-made thing without any support and seemingly its development has been stopped already. So probably there may be a plenty of bugs.
And one more thing. IMHO it draws the most pretty pie charts among other Qt chart libraries.
Medsphere has made their graphing widget available, note that it's implemented in gtk# though.
http://medsphere.org/projects/widgets/wiki/Graph