We're really going to need this sparkline capability in the reporting suite we choose, and we're a big reporting shop.  If you could add this capability, I think you'd blow everyone else away.  This strongly gets my vote!

Brett Green
Fortigent, LLC

I'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion that this makes sense only in the context of a text box. My suggestion was marked as a duplicate of this... If you look at the attached picture of samples on my suggestion (Spark Charts ) I fail to see how this fits into a text box.

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I agree, I don't see why you would only want to limit the sparklines to a text editor.  While I can't speak for anyone else, I would like to use them in grid cells. 

Currently I override the custom draw method in the cell and dray my own, but if there was some way to embed an existing sparkline, that would be really nice. 

As far as the actual implementation goes, could you bind to an IEnumberable<T> source, and then specify which property of T to use for the sparkline values.  Or it might even be easier if you could just override the custom draw event in the grid cell, then create an instance of the sparkline in the event handler, then render the sparkline to the cell's graphics object.

 It's been said, but to chime in. Spark lines are either part of the chart or the gauge products.  I would want them on rich client and web client dashboards.

 I too was a little suprised at the "this functionality makes sense only in the context of a text editor" - We think it makes more sense as part of XtraCharts, XtraGauges and XtraReports products.
One of the more innovative implementations Ive seen is MicroCharts - they have built fonts that allow their product to render out sparklines, win-lose charts etc as pure text. You can see an example here:
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/Images/Bank%20Dashboard.png
Initially we would be keen to see the following types:
Line (High, Low, Reference line, Banding)
Win Lose
Bar

Cheers
Dave

Thanks everyone for your valuable feedback. We greatly appreciate it!

We believe that it's better to create a separate control, providing this functionality. So, we've changed the subject of AS14347 to "Create a Sparkline control".

Please feel free to update the discussion thread with any related information. We'll take it into account.

 I agree that this needs to be embeddable in a report or grid cell.  It could just by a new mini-chart control.  I need to embed this into an XTraReport, one (or more) mini-charts for each row embedded in the detail section.

It could possibly take a column to bind to that contains a set of comma-separated values.  I really think this could be exposed as a type of charting control.  It has all the characteristics of a regular chart, except that it gets bound at the row level of your data.

Brett Green

 Just adding my voice to the chorus of "text editor?"

my company wants this control as something in a XtraTreelist column, or in XtraGrid cell

so as to use for alerts (e.g., management/operations dashboard UIs stuff).

operations/management/maintenance are going to see hundreds of alerts, depending on the customer.

sparklines with sorting capabilities would be a great feature.

 

 

Now with Excel 2010 being released with Sparklines this is going to make it harder for us Devs, as the customer will now know what they have been missing.

I had my customer about 3 months ago ask about some sort of graphical way of indicating a trend, I researched it and found the term was Sparklines, now with it in Excel I fear it will come back up in conversation

it coould be added in pivotcontrol ( grand total) as well as gridcontrol

 

chkk out :

http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com/

 

 

amazing simplicity of implemenetaion of sparklines thru javascript

 

Alan (DevExpress):

We believe that it's better to create a separate control, providing this functionality. So, we've changed the subject of AS14347 to "Create a Sparkline control".

Ok, accepted - to be released..... When?

It would be interesting to see a list of Accepted, to be released suggestions and when they were "accepted".

3 years and counting ?!?