I’ve mentioned all the cool stuff in posts already, but here’s the list:

• Add ‘baseline’ attribute to Axis, Bar uses this to know when to draw ‘up’ or ‘down’.
• Fix incorrect coloring of text on customized axes.
• Add tick_labels to axes and expose it in Simple.
• Make axes and labels cope with letters that drop below the baseline.
• Mooseify renderer options into attributes (options method is no longer used)
• Fix warnings in tests.
• Line renderer shapes default to filled, shape_stroke provides method for setting a stroke.

The Bar renderer has always been the red-headed stepchild of Clicker, but lately I’ve been paying it a lot more attention. Tonight I’ve added the ability to set the baseline of an Axis (at say, 0) so that Renderers can choose to display values differently if they fall above or below the baseline. Here’s the results for the Bar renderer:

I need to update the StackedBar renderer and get the axes ticks to take the baseline into effect before I can release the feature.

Some fixes came out of my time at PPW over the weekend. I also finally figured out how to do ‘real’ svg output!

• Sort of fix broken bar renderer
• Add hide_axes and hide_grid to Simple
• StackedBar Renderer
• Fix busted min/max of 0 on ranges
• Real SVG support

In the pending release:

It wasn’t so hard once I realized I was calling cairo’s rectangle function all wrong…

A flurry of releases have brought us to 1.2.2. The single largest change has been the conversion to Moose. What originally began as an excuse to play with Moose turned into a desire to convert the whole of Clicker. Thanks to Stevan and friends for a great package.

The other exciting feature is the addition of a Pie renderer:

1.2.2 fixed a few bugs that reared there heads after the Moose change. I’ve got a few changes that will give me a 1.2.3 in the near future.

Happy Charting!