Multicolor Graph - RealTime

[User (Legacy)]

Hello,

I am using version 6.0.839.0 ChartFx for .NET under VS2005. I am having 

trouble coloring each bar with unique color based on certin events. I did 

enable the Multicolor to true. In this example I am trying to set color of 

each bar as green (This will chnage to other colors on other logic). What I 

am seeing is that bars are beeing added but they are all random colors....

Below are three section from my code. generated from Designer, on Form Load 

and then adding each point.

Is this a bug? Or am I missing something?

Here is the code autogen by designer

            this.chartAckTime.AllowEdit = false;

            this.chartAckTime.AutoSizeMode = 

System.Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink;

            this.chartAckTime.AutoValidate = 

System.Windows.Forms.AutoValidate.EnablePreventFocusChange;

            this.chartAckTime.AxisY.Gridlines = true;

            this.chartAckTime.AxisY.LabelsFormat.Format = 

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.AxisFormat.Number;

            this.chartAckTime.AxisY.Title.Text = "Ack Time in ms";

            this.chartAckTime.BorderEffect = 

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.BorderEffect.None;

            this.chartAckTime.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;

            this.chartAckTime.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);

            this.chartAckTime.MultipleColors = true;

            this.chartAckTime.Name = "chartAckTime";

            this.chartAckTime.NSeries = 1;

            this.chartAckTime.PointLabelAngle = ((short)(45));

            this.chartAckTime.PointLabels = true;

            this.chartAckTime.Scheme = SoftwareFX.ChartFX.Scheme.Solid;

            this.chartAckTime.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(310, 260);

            this.chartAckTime.SmoothFlags = 

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.SmoothFlags.Text;

            this.chartAckTime.Stacked = SoftwareFX.ChartFX.Stacked.Normal;

            this.chartAckTime.TabIndex = 0;

            this.chartAckTime.Load += new 

System.EventHandler(this.chartAckTime_Load);

This is pice of code in Form::Load()

   this.chartAckTime.RealTimeSettings.BufferSize = bufferSize;

   this.chartAckTime.OpenData( COD.Values | COD.Remove | COD.AllocHidden, 1, 

bufferSize);

   for(int i = 0; i< bufferSize - 1; i++)

        this.chartAckTime.Legend[i] = (i + 1).ToString();

   this.chartAckTime.CloseData(COD.Values | COD.Remove | COD.AllocHidden);

   //Set the Max and Min since no data was passed.

   this.chartAckTime.AxisY.Max = 20;

   this.chartAckTime.AxisY.Min = 0;

   //Optimize scrolling. These lines will make the chart scroll faster.

   this.chartAckTime.TypeMask = this.chartAckTime.TypeMask | 

ChartType.EvenSpacing;

   this.chartAckTime.TypeEx = this.chartAckTime.TypeEx | 

ChartTypeEx.NoLegInvalidate;

   this.chartAckTime.RealTimeSettings.Style = RealTimeStyle.NoWaitArrow | 

RealTimeStyle.LoopPos;

And this is How I add each point

// Switch real-time styles once buffer is full

   if( this.nOffset == this.bufferSize )

   {

    this.chartAckTime.RealTimeSettings.Style = 

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.RealTimeStyle.NoWaitArrow;

    this.chartAckTime.Refresh();

   }

   //Set Communication Channel styles

   //These COD values instruct Chart FX about the Realtime settings

   //the chart, values and legend.

   SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD nCOD;

   nCOD = COD.Values | COD.RealTime | COD.ScrollLegend | COD.Values | 

COD.AddPoints | COD.Colors;

   //Add a point for each sereis to the right of the chart

   //Using the legend property, set the legend values

    this.chartAckTime.OpenData(nCOD, 1, 1);

    this.chartAckTime.Value[0, 0] = time;

    this.chartAckTime.Point[0, 0].Color = System.Drawing.Color.Green;

    this.chartAckTime.Legend[0] = (nOffset + 1).ToString();

    this.chartAckTime.CloseData(nCOD | COD.RealTimeScroll);

    nOffset = nOffset + 1;

[Software FX]

Robert,

The problem here is that you are trying to mix two concepts that don't mix 

very well: Real-Time and Per-Point attributes.

The basis for Real-Time charts is that points are only added to the chart, 

they are added to a circular buffer.

Per-Point attributes are attached to the index of a point regardless where 

this point is in the circular buffer. For example, if a per-point attribute 

is added for point 2, after the buffer becomes full and 3 more points are 

added, the last point will acquire the per-point attributes of point 2, in 

other words the point attributes of the point going out are taken in by the 

point coming in.

Unlike, Value and Legend, the index of Point is NOT relative to the 

OpenData(COD_AddPoint) statement, instead you need to address this point by 

its real index:

this.chartAckTime.Point[0, nOffset % BufferSize].Color = 

System.Drawing.Color.Green;

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com