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Chart Interactivity dropdown menu - Mac [message #717309] Fri, 19 August 2011 22:41 Go to next message
Marco Armani is currently offline Marco ArmaniFriend
Messages: 3
Registered: August 2011
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I'm testing the BIRT charting package on OSX. Everything seems to work fine except picking the Event for chart interactivity options.

Here's how I configured the Eclipse plugin:
- Downloaded eclipse-SDK-3.7-macosx-cocoa.tar.gz straight from the BIRT site
- Clicked on Help -> Install New Software
- Work with: --All Available Sites--
- Selected the entire Business Intelligence, Reporting and Charting branch
- Next, Next, Agree to license, and Install

Now the Report Design view is available.
So then:
- I created a new Report
- Created a new Data Source using ClassicModels
- Created a new Data Set using
select CUSTOMERNAME, CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS.CREDITLIMIT
from CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS
where CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS.STATE='CA'

- Created a new Chart. Leaving the default options as they were: Bar chart, 2D, SVG
NOTE: if you continue to the next step and try to set the data series for the chart, you might crash Eclipse. This has happened to me consistently, so the work around I've found is to create the Chart and simply hit Finish without going to the Select Data tab. Save the report, and then double click on the chart to get the Edit Chart window back and go to Select Data and continue setting it all up.
- Under 'Select Data' I used the CREDITLIMIT for my Y series, and CUSTOMERNAME for my X series
- Under 'Format Chart' I selected Value (Y) Series and clicked on the Interactivity button
- The 'Series Interactivity' pop-up window appeared.
- Clicking the top drop-down list to select an Event didn't do anything. It looked like the list expanded for a split second but the overall effect was no access to selecting any of the Events other than 'Mouse Click'.
- The Action drop-down list worked just fine, and so did the Cursor list.

The Event list has a different style than the other two lists (Combo box vs. List???) so that might be where the problem lies?
Following the same steps using the Windows installation of Eclipse correctly displayed the Event drop-down menu. I also tried loading a report (designed under the Windows installation) with interactivity options using various Events, and it loaded and ran fine under OSX. I just wasn't able to modify any of the events. So this must be a UI issue in the OSX version of the BIRT plugin.

This seems like a simple fix. Would anyone know if/how it can be fixed?

Thank you,
Marco
Re: Chart Interactivity dropdown menu - Mac [message #717851 is a reply to message #717309] Mon, 22 August 2011 14:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member

Marco,

Can you open a bugzilla entry for this. Post this same text to it.

Jason

On 8/19/2011 6:41 PM, Marco Armani wrote:
> I'm testing the BIRT charting package on OSX. Everything seems to work
> fine except picking the Event for chart interactivity options.
>
> Here's how I configured the Eclipse plugin:
> - Downloaded eclipse-SDK-3.7-macosx-cocoa.tar.gz straight from the BIRT
> site
> - Clicked on Help -> Install New Software
> - Work with: --All Available Sites--
> - Selected the entire Business Intelligence, Reporting and Charting branch
> - Next, Next, Agree to license, and Install
>
> Now the Report Design view is available.
> So then:
> - I created a new Report
> - Created a new Data Source using ClassicModels
> - Created a new Data Set using
>
> select CUSTOMERNAME, CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS.CREDITLIMIT
> from CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS
> where CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS.STATE='CA'
>
> - Created a new Chart. Leaving the default options as they were: Bar
> chart, 2D, SVG
> NOTE: if you continue to the next step and try to set the data series
> for the chart, you might crash Eclipse. This has happened to me
> consistently, so the work around I've found is to create the Chart and
> simply hit Finish without going to the Select Data tab. Save the report,
> and then double click on the chart to get the Edit Chart window back and
> go to Select Data and continue setting it all up.
> - Under 'Select Data' I used the CREDITLIMIT for my Y series, and
> CUSTOMERNAME for my X series
> - Under 'Format Chart' I selected Value (Y) Series and clicked on the
> Interactivity button
> - The 'Series Interactivity' pop-up window appeared.
> - Clicking the top drop-down list to select an Event didn't do anything.
> It looked like the list expanded for a split second but the overall
> effect was no access to selecting any of the Events other than 'Mouse
> Click'.
> - The Action drop-down list worked just fine, and so did the Cursor list.
>
> The Event list has a different style than the other two lists (Combo box
> vs. List???) so that might be where the problem lies?
> Following the same steps using the Windows installation of Eclipse
> correctly displayed the Event drop-down menu. I also tried loading a
> report (designed under the Windows installation) with interactivity
> options using various Events, and it loaded and ran fine under OSX. I
> just wasn't able to modify any of the events. So this must be a UI issue
> in the OSX version of the BIRT plugin.
>
> This seems like a simple fix. Would anyone know if/how it can be fixed?
>
> Thank you,
> Marco
Re: Chart Interactivity dropdown menu - Mac [message #717872 is a reply to message #717851] Mon, 22 August 2011 15:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Marco Armani is currently offline Marco ArmaniFriend
Messages: 3
Registered: August 2011
Junior Member
Thanks Jason. Will do.

Cheers,
Marco
Re: Chart Interactivity dropdown menu - Mac [message #719021 is a reply to message #717872] Thu, 25 August 2011 20:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Marco Armani is currently offline Marco ArmaniFriend
Messages: 3
Registered: August 2011
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Bug # 355407 opened.

bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355407
Re: Chart Interactivity dropdown menu - Mac [message #719030 is a reply to message #719021] Thu, 25 August 2011 20:39 Go to previous message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member

Thanks for posting.

Jason

On 8/25/2011 4:07 PM, Marco Armani wrote:
> Bug # 355407 opened.
>
> bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355407
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