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Gantt Control VCL Edition Changelog

What's new in Gantt Control VCL Edition 3.0

Aug 29, 2017
  • New Features:
  • General:
  • Live Preview - Changes to processes, especially linked processes, can now be previewed directly in the table and chart section
  • Multi-level undo - You can now instantly jump back to a previous processing stage
  • Optimized performance - Performance has been significantly improved in relation to displaying, moving and editing extensive GANTT charts
  • Easy to set properties for drafting time - Many elements and their properties, such as columns, time scales and date lines, can now be created and edited in the Delphi-during drafting.
  • Modern layout - The user interface has been completely redesigned and modernized. More complicated user interactions, e.g. creating links, have been simplified
  • Supports 64-Bit - The componentcan be integrated into64-bit Windows applications
  • Table / Chart:
  • Cell-base formatting - Individual cells can now be formatted separately
  • Automatic completion - When editing cells with text content, text input is automatically completed based on existing data
  • Automatic filling - If the selected cell area is enlarged, Gantt Control 3.0 analyses its content, and tries to automatically expand rows and sequences of figures and time data
  • Line note - A note can be edited and shown for lines
  • Bar buttons - Buttons surrounding designated bars allow you to link directly between them.
  • Bar text key - Content from individual columns can be automatically shown and linked to bars by using Bar Text Keys
  • Smooth scrolling - The Gantt components 3.0 supports smooth horizontal scrolling
  • Fixed scroll range
  • Duration display mode - Allows you to set whether time data is shown in hours, days or weeks in the individual cells.
  • Flexible timescale labeling
  • Unlimited datelines - An unlimited number of vertical datelines can now be shown in the Gantt chart. These contain various automatic labeling modes
  • Columns:
  • New column type: Indicator
  • Auto behavior of indicator items
  • Column menu - The column menu allows you to sort/filter the Gantt chart’s content
  • Fixed columns - The “Fixed column” property allows you to permanently fix columns so that their content remains visible while scrolling
  • Column hints - Column hints help with headers and multi-line text, and with highlighting and formatting text
  • Column icons
  • Caption editing
  • Editable predetermined columns (AutoStart, AutoEnd, AutoDuration).
  • Bar, links:
  • Selection frame for bars
  • Start/End symbol for task bars
  • Headings for text bars
  • Fixed linking shown differently
  • Link colour can be set
  • Display range for actual bars can be variable
  • Critical path layout can be designed flexibly
  • Uniform milestone representation
  • Calendars:
  • Line calendar
  • Hierarchical structures for exceptions
  • Print preview:
  • Insertion of plan image
  • Modern UI for print preview
  • Insertion and placement of EXCEL spreadsheets
  • Automatic adjustment to page width

New in Gantt Control VCL Edition 2.0 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • More detailed labels:
  • Additional labels for gantt chart cells (Resource Labels)
  • Assign additional labels for several areas in the gantt chart. You can use these for example to display capacity information.
  • Label for gantt rows
  • Rows in the gantt chart can now be labeled. It is possible to define either a label per line, or a top and bottom label.
  • New bar types: TWGSShadowTaskBar and TWGSShadowProgressBar
  • The new non-interactive bar types TWGSShadowTaskBar and TWGSShadowProgressBar can be inserted and lie behind the normal Task Bar and Progress bars. You can use the new bar types for example to visualize a former project state and compare it with the current project state.
  • Higher adaptability:
  • Taskbars can now be locked
  • Task bars can now be locked, in order to prevent any modification by the user.
  • Filter
  • The gantt chart can now be automatically filtered by its columns content.
  • Sliced task bars
  • Bar can now optionally be drawn so that they are suspended on non-working hours.
  • Row-dependent presentation of the calendar
  • For non-working periods, such as weekends, you can change row by row, the calendar-dependent representation.
  • Numerous other features:
  • Drag'n'drop of tree rows.
  • A range of multiple rows can be selected by pressing [Shift] and left click.
  • An additional vertical date line can be inserted (GanttGraph.Table.DateLine2).
  • Summarybars can now be connected to each other.
  • It is possible now to hide gantt rows via the attribute GanttGraph.tree.Rows[].Hidden.
  • In addition to the global attributes addElements and deleteElements, the attribute modifyElements has been implemented, enable the gantt chart to prevent modification of the content.
  • New events allow the easier integration of the component into your delphi application (OnInvokeEditor, OnViewChanged, OnCustomDrawBar ...).
  • New methods, such as GanttGraph.ScrollInViewColumn(..), GanttGraph.EditTreeCell(..), TaskBar.BringToFront(..) has been implemented.
  • Numerous bugs have been fixed.
  • The source code of the component can be compiled for 64-bit platforms.
  • Available for Delphi6, Delphi7, Delphi2005, Delphi2006, Delphi2009, Delphi2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE5 and Delphi XE6.

New in Gantt Control VCL Edition 2014 (Apr 24, 2014)

  • Ready for Delphi XE 4 and XE 5

New in Gantt Control VCL Edition 2013 (Apr 20, 2013)

  • Ready for Delphi XE3

New in Gantt Control VCL Edition 2012 2.00.0000 (Apr 25, 2012)

  • The Gantt Control itself and the Installer has been updated and are nor ready for Delphi XE