I need a Gantt chart to show the order of a number of events from a log file. The X-axis was to be time, and a number of categories were listed along the Y-axis, similar to digital plot.
I wanted to represent each operation by a horizontal bar starting at the start time and ending at an end time. Multiple events could happen for each category over time. Ideally when hovering over an event, details should become visible. The end result would look similar to what you may know from MS-project, but is not quite the same.
Eventually I ended up drawing the whole thing in the picture control. While passable, it's not as clean as I want it to be and it's a work around. It is not easy to incorporate zoom, highlight elements etc.
Later on, I was completely blown away by an implementation of a similar Gantt chart in JFreeChart. It was zoomable and customizable every which way. If you don't know JFreeChart - check it on the web. It offers a highly customable graph api to the Java community for free (some 40,000 developers are incorporating it in their Java programs). The problem is... it's in Java and Labview can't touch it.
So what I would want is either a Gantt chart in Labview, or (maybe better), a Java container with the whole support of references, methods and properties (if possible), just like active-X and .net support.
The example graph is a very simple one. Now imagine 100 line items, each with hundreds or more occurrences, zoomable, expandable, color coded, labeled, etc.
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