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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

To complete the picture, there is Ext Core (MIT license) :
http://www.extjs.com/products/core/manual/

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think we probably need to keep both Ext and Jquery - and it looks
> like the two can work together:
> http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?56724-ExtJS-and-JQuery-working-together
>
> The GIS module is making good progress, though it will necessarily
> continue to be a bit heavy. Important to set up the webserver to serve
> it Gzipped (I seem to have trouble getting that to work with Tomcat).
>
> It will be cool when we can have all the maps in the database as
> GeoJSON. This will also make it easier to include maps elsewhere in
> the application, for example in the dashboard and in the OrgUnit
> managment interfaces. For this one could do without Ext, and just use
> a) OpenLayers, b) SVG, or c) even HTML ImageMaps, as Dutch national
> health atlas are doing:
> http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/object_map/o3017n21941.html
>
> Came across a Jquery wrapper for OpenLayers:
> http://code.google.com/p/jquery-openlayers/source/browse/trunk/lib/ui.openlayers.js
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Lars Helge Øverland
> <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This stuff is based on jquery, will this conflict with ext in the gis
>> module?
>>
>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland
>> <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, thanks for the research and discussion. Will have a look at it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well I think the jquery svg plugin has made up my mind re the ext vs
>>>> jquery discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at this jquery plugin: http://keith-wood.name/svg.html.
>>>> This is appears to be a free software equivalent (though a bit more
>>>> general and not *quite* as sophisticated) as the highcharts thing.  I
>>>> hadn't noticed before that highcharts is also making svg which is
>>>> partly why they look so nice.
>>>>
>>>> In particular check out the graphing/plotting/mixture tabs.  I don't
>>>> think there can be a much easier open licenced way to make vector
>>>> graphic, w3c standard svg charts than this :-)
>>>>
>>>> What do you think Jan?  Would this meet your requirements?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On 15 May 2010 11:39, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > On 14 May 2010 15:07, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>> highcharts look very beautiful but I think Knut is right.  I don't
>>>> >>> think we could use it.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> The flot thing looks a bit primitive :-(
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The commercial alternatives are indeed more polished, but I think this
>>>> >> may easily cover many of our needs - perhaps to be supplemented at
>>>> >> some later stage. Here are some examples:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/stacking.html
>>>> >> http://groups.google.com/group/flot-graphs/msg/b56101eb1375d1da
>>>> >>
>>>> >> There is also flotr:
>>>> >> http://solutoire.com/flotr/docs/
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Have you looked at rendering charts in svg?  I see there are a few
>>>> >>> javascript (http://keith-wood.name/svggraphRef.html) , java and even
>>>> >>> xslt libaries (Dave pawson's
>>>> >>> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/graph2svg/index.html#intro is excellent but
>>>> >>> sadly xslt 2.0) out there to do that, and being an open standard we
>>>> >>> can customize to our heart's content.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> SVG is definitely a contender - but looks like it may take some more
>>>> >> work to get going in terms of what we are currently looking for,
>>>> >
>>>> > Its not really that complicated.  If you use your favorite graphing
>>>> > program to create a template (I use gnuplot with terminal type svg but
>>>> > there are probably more modern alternatives) then you can relatively
>>>> > easily use this as a base and then use whatever programmatic means to
>>>> > update the actual data series representation in the chart.  See for
>>>> > example the last three data chunks (actually line drawing) in the
>>>> > markup of the attached.  This could be updated dynamically via
>>>> > javascript/ajax on the client side or on the server side depending on
>>>> > the use case.
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers
>>>> > Bob
>>>> >
>>>> > And the good news is that native svg support is finally coming in IE9.
>>>> >  Its already in the platform review http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
>>>> >
>>>> >>so
>>>> >> maybe a good strategy could be to for flot now and move in the
>>>> >> direction of SVG a bit later on?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Knut
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Regards
>>>> >>> Bob
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On 14 May 2010 13:59, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>>> It seems the best alternative might be this JQuery library (MIT
>>>> >>>> licensed, so no problem):
>>>> >>>> http://code.google.com/p/flot/
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Knut
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>> Hm...does not look good from a licensing point of view, I'm afraid,
>>>> >>>>> since we want this to be used by both governments and anyone else.
>>>> >>>>> I
>>>> >>>>> think we must try and find another alternative
>>>> >>>>> http://www.highcharts.com/license
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> Knut
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland
>>>> >>>>> <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>> The charts included in Ext3 require a Flash plugin. Thus I decided
>>>> >>>>>> to use
>>>> >>>>>> Highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com) instead, which is pure
>>>> >>>>>> JavaScript and
>>>> >>>>>> afaik wouldn't cause any licence issues. Would be nice if the
>>>> >>>>>> licence gurus
>>>> >>>>>> could have a look, tho.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>> Merge authors:
>>>> >>>>>>>  Jan Henrik Øverland (janhenrik-overland)
>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> >>>>>>> revno: 1855 [merge]
>>>> >>>>>>> committer: Jan Henrik Overland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >>>>>>> branch nick: trunk
>>>> >>>>>>> timestamp: Fri 2010-05-14 13:57:55 +0200
>>>> >>>>>>> message:
>>>> >>>>>>>  (GIS) Line chart for several periods implemented.
>>>> >>>>>>> added:
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-support/dhis-support-i18n/
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/mapping/action/GetMapValuesByMapAndFeatureIdAction.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/resources/highcharts/
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/resources/highcharts/Ext.ux.HighChart.js
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/resources/highcharts/adapter-extjs.js
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/resources/highcharts/highcharts.js
>>>> >>>>>>> modified:
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/aggregation/AggregatedMapValue.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/datamart/DataMartStore.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/mapping/MappingService.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-services/dhis-service-datamart-default/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/datamart/jdbc/JdbcDataMartStore.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-services/dhis-service-mapping/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/mapping/DefaultMappingService.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-support/dhis-support-system/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/system/objectmapper/AggregatedMapValueRowMapper.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/mapping/action/GetMapValuesByLevelAction.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/mapping/action/GetMapValuesByMapAction.java
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/resources/META-INF/dhis/beans.xml
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/resources/struts.xml
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/jsonAggregatedMapValues.vm
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/jsonminAggregatedMapValues.vm
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/mapping/index.html
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/mapping/script/index.js
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>  dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-mapping/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-mapping/resources/mapfish/widgets/Shortcuts.js
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>>>> >>>>> Knut Staring
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> --
>>>> >>>> Cheers,
>>>> >>>> Knut Staring
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>>>> >>
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