XY Plot with Dates as X value....

[User (Legacy)]

In ChartFX IE 2000, I am trying to create a line graph of multiple series of

data points overtime that is scaled based on the date.

For example:

  series 1:   5 on 1/1/1990;  7 on 2/2/1992;   9 on 4/4/2003

  series 2:   14 on 2/2/1987;  15 on 2/5/2002

My understanding is that I need to use an XY plot in order to make the lines

continuous when a point doesn't exist for the series.  However when loading

data into Series.XValue(j) I need to provide a double but instead I have

date and I need the date ranges to appear scaled on the X axis of the graph.

Is there a standard way for doing this using ChartFX?

[User (Legacy)]

If you following the standard XY graph instructions and just allow the Date

to be implicitly cast to a double and the system works properly.  Don't

forget to change the axis format of date (oChart.Axis(AXIS_X).Format =

AF_DATE)

-------- from the help files:

Passing Data to a scatter plot with the ValueEx and XValueEx properties.

The only special case when passing data to an XY Plot is that you're going

to make two OpenDataEX method calls (one with COD_VALUES or y coordinate and

another one with COD_XVALUES or x coordinate) and finally use the "ValueEx"

property to assign the appropriate y values and the "XValueEx" property to

assign the x values of each point in the chart. The source code should look

as follows:

' Open the VALUES channel specifying "nSeries" Series and "nPoints" Points

ChartFX1.OpenDataEx COD_VALUES,nSeries,nPoints

ChartFX1.OpenDataEx COD_XVALUES,nSeries,nPoints

' Code to set the data

For i = 0 To nSeries-1

For j = 0 To nPoints -1

ChartFX1.ValueEX(i,j) = 'Y Coordinate Value

ChartFX1.XValueEX(i,j) = 'X Coordinate value

Next j

Next i

' Close the VALUES and XVALUES channels

ChartFX1.CloseData COD_VALUES

ChartFX1.CloseData COD_XVALUES

Passing Data to a scatter plot with the Series Object.

You can also use the YValue and XValue properties in the Series object to

pass data to an XY Plot.

' Open the VALUES channel specifying "nSeries" Series and "nPoints" Points

ChartFX1.OpenDataEx COD_VALUES,nSeries,nPoints

ChartFX1.OpenDataEx COD_XVALUES,nSeries,nPoints

' Code to set the data

For i = 0 To nSeries-1

For j = 0 To nPoints -1

ChartFX1.Series(i).YValue(j) = 'Y Coordinate Value

ChartFX1.Series(i).XValue(j) = 'X Coordinate value

Next j

Next i

' Close the VALUES and XVALUES channels

ChartFX1.CloseData COD_VALUES

ChartFX1.CloseData COD_XVALUES

"Dave Sanders" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message

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> In ChartFX IE 2000, I am trying to create a line graph of multiple series

of

> data points overtime that is scaled based on the date.

>

> For example:

>   series 1:   5 on 1/1/1990;  7 on 2/2/1992;   9 on 4/4/2003

>   series 2:   14 on 2/2/1987;  15 on 2/5/2002

>

> My understanding is that I need to use an XY plot in order to make the

lines

> continuous when a point doesn't exist for the series.  However when

loading

> data into Series.XValue(j) I need to provide a double but instead I have

> date and I need the date ranges to appear scaled on the X axis of the

graph.

>

> Is there a standard way for doing this using ChartFX?

>

>