exgantt - advantage

This table shows some advantages that we and our customers found between our product and other similar products. We still encourage you to download a trial copy and see for yourself.

Description Our Gantt Other Gantt
1 Hierarchy (Tree view) Ability to insert and display child items as in a tree control Only simulating the child indentation
2 Multiple Columns Implemented Only in few, and most with predefined columns
3 TimeScale Levels Allows unlimited number of levels to be displayed  Only 2 levels
4 TimeScale Labels Unlimited options to define the labels using <%%> Only predefined labels
5 Overview/Layout Area Implemented Only in few products
6 Zooming Support Implemented Only in few products
7 Filtering support On-Fly-Custom Filtering support Only predefined filters, and not in all products
8 Incremental Search StartWith or Contains incremental search implemented  Not found
9 Skinning Support Ability to skin any part of the control, including scrollbars As the current theme displays some predefined controls 
10 Sort Bar support Implemented Not implemented
11 Semi-Transparent Bars support Implemented Not implemented
12 Template support Implemented Not implemented
13 XML support Implemented Saves as binary to predefined type of files
14 ActiveX hosting Implemented Not implemented
15 Nonworking Dates Allows custom nonworking dates Doesn't support custom dates
16 Partial Check Supported for each column Support for a single column only
17 Custom bars Support for shapes and patterns with custom icons Only with predefined icons.
18 Multiple Bars Allows multiple bars to a single item Only One, and in few allows up to n bars
19 HTML Text Includes colors, font attributes, icons, pictures in any text Not supported
20 Pictures on links Implemented Not found
21 Mark units Implemented Not implemented
22 Items or Bars with different heights Implemented Only for all
23 Multiple icons/pictures to the cell Supported Only limited to one icon/picture per cell.
24 Custom buttons scrollbars Implemented Not implemented
25 Scrolling Fast the Chart area Adds page scroll buttons to chart's scroll bar Not implemented
26 Copy and Paste Ability to Copy the control's date to EMF format Not found
27 Split or merging cells support Supported Not supported

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28 Price Reasonable Pricey
29 Technical Support 1 Year You must pay
30 Professional Support You get mostly support directly from the author Talking with secretaries 
31 New Versions 1 Year 30 Days
32 Maintenance At least once a month Once a Year
33 Runtime License The price is per developer  You must pay royalties for each run
34 Supported Environments VB, VB.NET, VBA, C++, C#, VFP, Access, HTML For specified environment
35 Dependencies No dependencies Requires even MFC or VB, VB.NET runtime libraries
36 Number of Lines of Code Not hidden For some products we have not found
37 Time to Evaluate the Product Unlimited Limited to a number of weeks
38 Time to fix a BUG As soon as we are notified and we can duplicate it Added to the control's wish list. Options to avoid that
39 Request for New Features Open to everyone Mostly you are ignored