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Re: kchart is still messed up
by Robert Knight on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @17:45

Hi,

I made that change. The first Row is assumed to be column labels (eg. "Month" , "Sales"). The leftmost Column is assumed to be row labels (eg. "January", "February" etc.)

Under KChart 1.4, you had to manually click on the table headers to set up labels for series or rows. This means it was slow because you couldn't do it easily via the keyboard. I also found it non-intuitive, since in spreadsheets etc. the first column and last row are usually used for such labels.

The other thing is that the default data layout has been changed from data in rows to data in columns, ie:

Month | Sales
Jan | X
Feb | Y

Instead of:

Month | Jan | Feb
Sales | X | Y

The rationale is that most tables of data are presented in the first format rather than the second (which is why almost all spreadsheet packages have many more rows than columns), so KChart now expects data in the first format by default.

I will see what I can do to make the KChart Data Editor more intuitive for the final KOffice 1.5 release. Thanks for the feedback.

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