Jump to content
Software FX Community

Bubble Charts and Annotation Text


User (Legacy)

Recommended Posts

I have created bubble charts and attached annotation text next to the center

to show which bubble is which. The problem I am having is when a user zooms

in on the a particular range of bubbles. When they do this, the annotation

text gets moved further and further away from the bubble the more they zoom

down. How do I get the annotation text to move proportionately with the

bubble?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I forgot to say that I am using Chartfx Client Server version 5.0.

"Joe Glen" <jglen@quadramed.com> wrote in message

news:mmdNnKZKFHA.1924@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> I have created bubble charts and attached annotation text next to the

center

> to show which bubble is which. The problem I am having is when a user

zooms

> in on the a particular range of bubbles. When they do this, the

annotation

> text gets moved further and further away from the bubble the more they

zoom

> down. How do I get the annotation text to move proportionately with the

> bubble?

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

To what position did you attach the object ?

If you offset the center position by a constant, this is the cause of the

problem. The coordinates passed in Attach are "logical" coordinates, so any

offset that you added is expressed in X and Y axis units. As you zoom into

the chart, these units become bigger and the object ends up at the wrong

position. If this is the case, this approach will not work.

I would need to know more information about what you are trying to achieve

in order to give you some alternatives.

--

FP

Software FX

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What I am trying to achieve is to allow the user to zoom in on a quadrant on

the chart and when they do that, the labels that are attached to each bubble

stays with that bubble. This way the user can still identify each bubble.

What other information do you need from me in order to give me some

alternatives?

Joe

"SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

news:usa29FYLFHA.1660@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> To what position did you attach the object ?

>

> If you offset the center position by a constant, this is the cause of the

> problem. The coordinates passed in Attach are "logical" coordinates, so

any

> offset that you added is expressed in X and Y axis units. As you zoom into

> the chart, these units become bigger and the object ends up at the wrong

> position. If this is the case, this approach will not work.

>

> I would need to know more information about what you are trying to achieve

> in order to give you some alternatives.

>

> --

> FP

> Software FX

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What I meant was: Why are you using annotation objects in the first place. 

If it is solely for the purpose of labeling the points, there are better

alternatives such as Custom Point labels. Custom painting is another option.

Please attach a screenshot of the chart (before zooming).

--

FP

Software FX

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Here is an example of the graph before zooming takes place.

If I were to zoom in on this, I would want the labels to stay with each

bubble.

Hope this gives you a better picture. I am open to doing this in other ways

if you can show me how.

Thanks.

"SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

news:M2g3lalLFHA.3800@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> What I meant was: Why are you using annotation objects in the first place.

> If it is solely for the purpose of labeling the points, there are better

> alternatives such as Custom Point labels. Custom painting is another

option.

> Please attach a screenshot of the chart (before zooming).

>

> --

> FP

> Software FX

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ok. I see.

The best way to achieve this would be using Custom Point labels. Custom

Point Labels can be done by capturing the GetPointLabel event as follows:

Private Sub ChartFX1_GetPointLabel(ByVal nSerie As Integer, ByVal nPoint As

Long, nRes As Integer)

ChartFX1.HText = "New Point Label" + Str(nSerie) + "," + Str(nPoint) '

Point label for this partiicular point and series.

nRes = 1 ' Tells Chart FX that you have processed the event.

End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()

ChartFX1.Axis(AXIS_NUM_Y).Notify = True ' Enables Custom Point Labels

ChartFX1.PointLabelAlign = LA_LEFT Or LA_BASELINE ' Alignment of Point

Label text with respect to center of marker

End Sub

The GetPointLabel event is called during painting once for each point in the

chart.

--

FP

Software FX

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This looks great so far.  The one question I have is how to assign the

proper text to each bubble. Each one is to display a different value, here

is the code I have so far:

rsPassedGraphdata.MoveFirst

With frmReport.ChartFX1

' code for marker labels

For a = 0 To (.NSeries - 2)

For b = 0 To (.NValues - 1)

l_text = Trim(rsPassedGraphdata.Fields.Item(0).Value)

ChartFX1.HText = l_text

rsPassedGraphdata.MoveNext

Next b

Next a

End With

Thanks.

"SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

news:uqsso3uLFHA.3800@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> Ok. I see.

>

> The best way to achieve this would be using Custom Point labels. Custom

> Point Labels can be done by capturing the GetPointLabel event as follows:

>

>

> Private Sub ChartFX1_GetPointLabel(ByVal nSerie As Integer, ByVal nPoint

As

> Long, nRes As Integer)

> ChartFX1.HText = "New Point Label" + Str(nSerie) + "," + Str(nPoint) '

> Point label for this partiicular point and series.

> nRes = 1 ' Tells Chart FX that you have processed the event.

> End Sub

>

> Private Sub Form_Load()

> ChartFX1.Axis(AXIS_NUM_Y).Notify = True ' Enables Custom Point Labels

> ChartFX1.PointLabelAlign = LA_LEFT Or LA_BASELINE ' Alignment of Point

> Label text with respect to center of marker

> End Sub

>

> The GetPointLabel event is called during painting once for each point in

the

> chart.

>

> --

> FP

> Software FX

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

No. This is incorrect.

You are not going to do a loop, Cart FX does the loop for you. All you have

to do is to return the appropriate point label for each point from the

GetPointLabel event.

Check my code, unlike your code, my code does not have a loop and my code is

inside the GetPointLabel event. You need to trap the GetPointLabel event and

locate the label for that particular point (nPoint is passed to you).

You can use your loop to fill out some arrays (that you will keep) and then

return the contents of this array when you receive the calls to

GetPointLabel. Notice that I said the calls, meaning you will get MANY calls

to GetTip, one for each point.

--

FP

Software FX

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thanks for the help.  At first I was not sure how to get the proper label, but you gave me the idea on how to get it out of the recordset without looping through the recordset.

Joe

"SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message news:1bj8IczLFHA.2580@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> No. This is incorrect.

>

> You are not going to do a loop, Cart FX does the loop for you. All you have

> to do is to return the appropriate point label for each point from the

> GetPointLabel event.

>

> Check my code, unlike your code, my code does not have a loop and my code is

> inside the GetPointLabel event. You need to trap the GetPointLabel event and

> locate the label for that particular point (nPoint is passed to you).

>

> You can use your loop to fill out some arrays (that you will keep) and then

> return the contents of this array when you receive the calls to

> GetPointLabel. Notice that I said the calls, meaning you will get MANY calls

> to GetTip, one for each point.

>

> --

> FP

> Software FX

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...