Dates on X Axis don't scale right

[User (Legacy)]

If I have a line graph, with the any values for the following dates:

4/1

5/1

6/1

7/1

7/2

7/3

7/4

7/5

It treats them all as equal values.  Rather than the graph putting larger 

interval spaces between 4/1-5/1-6/1 (because each are a month), it treats 

them as regular labels, and all as days... doesn't scale right.  It should 

know that it's 30 days between 4/1 and 5/1 and 6/1, but only one day between 

7/1-7/5.

How do I fix this?

[Software FX]

1) What type of Chart are you creating (Bar, Lines. etc.) ?

2) How are you passing the data to this chart ?

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

Lines.

Passing data manually.

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

news:fQDHFq2bFHA.200@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> 1) What type of Chart are you creating (Bar, Lines. etc.) ?

>

> 2) How are you passing the data to this chart ?

>

> -- 

> Francisco Padron

> www.chartfx.com

>

[Software FX]

Well, its very hard to help when you provide so little information. Posting 

the critical section of code usually speaks tons, in this case that would be 

the code that passes the data to the chart.

Make sure you are passing those Dates as X-Values not as mere labels, by 

doing so you will allow Chart FX to get the actual value not just a string. 

Once the X-Values are set, they will be used to position each point in the 

X-Axis.

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

It seems that the XValue is the key I was missing, however, when I use 

XValue, my labels disappear?

See the following code function, and image.

private void renderChart()

{

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.Internet.Server.Chart Chart1;

Chart1 = new SoftwareFX.ChartFX.Internet.Server.Chart(this);

Chart1.GalleryObj = SoftwareFX.ChartFX.Gallery.Lines;

Chart1.Border = true;

Chart1.OpenData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.Values, 1, 10);

Chart1.OpenData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.XValues, 1, 10);

string [] dates = new string[10];

dates[0] = "1/1/2005";

dates[1] = "2/1/2005";

dates[2] = "3/1/2005";

dates[3] = "4/1/2005";

dates[4] = "5/1/2005";

dates[5] = "5/2/2005";

dates[6] = "5/3/2005";

dates[7] = "5/4/2005";

dates[8] = "5/5/2005";

dates[9] = "5/6/2005";

Random rnd = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond);

for(int i=0;i<10;i++)

{

Chart1.Value[0, i] = Convert.ToDouble(rnd.NextDouble()*100);

Chart1.XValue[0, i] = Convert.ToDateTime(dates[i]).ToOADate();

Chart1.AxisX.Label[i] = Convert.ToDateTime(dates[i]).ToShortDateString();

}

Chart1.AxisX.LabelsFormat.Format = SoftwareFX.ChartFX.AxisFormat.Date;

Chart1.AxisX.AutoScale = false;

Chart1.AxisY.AutoScale = true;

Chart1.CloseData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.Values);

Chart1.CloseData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.XValues);

try

{

Chart.InnerHtml = Chart1.GetHtmlTag(600, 300);

}

catch(System.Exception ex)

{

Chart.InnerHtml = "Could not render Chart chart due to: " + ex.Message;

}

}

[Software FX]

You don't want to assign labels at all, just X-Values, the labels Chart FX 

will display will be based on the data passes through X-Values.

Delete the line:

Chart1.AxisX.Label[i] = Convert.ToDateTime(dates[i]).ToShortDateString();

Performance/Style Suggestion: Use DateTime instead of strings to represent 

your date values.

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

Thanks.