A real example: Use entrance for software development report

[Shane Duan]

I know I don't write much, even though I read every email coming through this group.

Well, hopefully, this makes up a bit:

http://agileworks.blogspot.com/2009/10/automation-of-burn-up-and-burn-down.html


--
Shane
http://www.shaneduan.com

[Tod Landis]

Entrance IDE 1.5.1 is now available in the main download area.

- Tod

Release Notes 
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RADAR CHARTS
Entrance Version 1.5 supports radar charts and new series
types DIRECTION and VECTOR.  There are examples here:
http://dbentrance.com/blog/?p=132
(These examples include a simple way to make gauges based
on data in MySQL tables)


DROPLINES
DateTimeDirChart now supports a DROPLINE series type, which drops 
a line from each non-null data point to the bottom of the frame. 


JAVA API
There are two new methods in EntrancePlot.  This one generates 'pngFile'
given an Entrance script file, 'scriptFile':

    public static String generatePNG( Connection con,
            String pngFile, String scriptFile,
            boolean deleteIfExists) 

and this one generates a temporary PNG files
    public static String generateTempPNG(Connection con, String scriptFile) 

Both return paths to the files they generate.  This makes it possible
to embed Entrance chart images in the HTML generated by a Java method 
or servlet using the IMG tag.  The temporary PNG method is useful
when generating HTML from an EntranceTool on the desktop, as in this 
example:

   String output = 
      ... some html ...
        
        "<img src=\"" +
          EntrancePlot.generateTempPNG(con,
            "/Users/myscripts/temperature.sql")    
        + "\"/>" +

      ... more html ...
      ... do something with the HTML output ...

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Previous release notes: http://dbentrance.com/newdocs/releasenotesOLD.html