Changes in version 2.1

Version 2.1

 

New Features

 

Added treeLegendRoot property to StackedBarSeries
Added left and right as valid property values for PieSeries.position and AnalogGaugeSeries.position
Added defaultColors, useColorArray and onBarNeedsColor to StackedBarSeries
Added the ability for StackedBarSeries to share a single color array among all owned series
Added support for IE8 RC1 (and most previous betas) in all modes
Added chart.setShowLegend method
Performance increases in IE when drawing multiple series and/or series with large numbers of points
Added support for gaps in LineSeries (use a blank string as Y)
Added getBarSizeInPoints to BarSeries and descendant classes

 

Bug Fixes

 

Corrected several IE related memory leaks
Corrected memory leaks related to Ajax requests (affected all browsers)
Corrected memory leaks when removing charts from a page repeatedly without refreshing
Corrected parameter name for CSVStringDataHandler.setCSV
Fixed AreaSeries draw when series contains more than 5000 points in IE
Fixed incorrect parsing of numeric Y values in Stock Series
Updated chart.onBeforeSelectPoint, onAfterSelectPoint, onShowHint to send the correct value for the HoverOrSelect parameter
Corrected error when trying to get/set axis captions
Corrected issues with certain data handlers corrupting data when Object.prototype has been modified
Fixed issues with legend movement when the chart was inside a scrollable container
Corrected Axis.pointToPixel so that it returns the proper value when given a string (bin)
Corrected double loading of data when using JSONStringDataHandler
Removed the ability for closeLine to affect drawing in LineSeries
Corrected issues with AreaSeries drawing when closeLine was false in Safari
Corrected AreaSeries drawing in IE when more than 5000 points exist
Corrected issues with extremes calculations in StackedBarSeries