Charts widget.

[Alex Tweedly]

No, I mean the chart widget (chart - not charts, my mistake).

The graph (or linegraph) widget - com.livecode.widget.linegraph - does 
simple line graphs only.

The chart widget - com.livecode.widget.chart - can do everything you 
ever imagined a chart could do, and more. (*)

> The Chart widget is a wrapper forChart.js v3.7.0 
> <https://www.chartjs.org>in LiveCode. It allows you to create 
> beautiful and highly customizable charts, in a simple way. Data can be 
> displayed as a line graph, bar chart, radar chart, donut/pie chart, 
> polar chart, bubble chart or scatter plot.
It really is wonderful - all kinds of charts, very fast, animations, 
etc. The only drawback I've found so far is that doing time sequence or 
date sequence charts needs some extra magic, and I don't know how to 
find that magic.

Thanks for the suggestion of reading the .lcb; I probably couldn't have 
made sense of it anyway - but there is no .lcb file for the chart widget.

It's just my bad luck that all the charts I want to do are the kind that 
is beyond me :-)

Alex.

(*) not quite true, I don't think it can do the complex time + bubble 
animations that Hans Rosling uses to such amazing effect - 
https://singularityhub.com/2010/12/09/hans-rosling-shows-you-200-years-of-global-growth-in-4-minutes-video/

On 25/09/2022 23:21, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> do you mean the graph widget?
> if that's what you mean, then...
> sorry this isn't more helpful, but to get you started, the graph.lcb file
> is in Tools/Extensions/com.livecode.widget.linegraph, if you want to try
> reading through it.
> it's only 1300 lines, total, including the docs. there is not that much
> going on.
> there are no private properties that i can see.
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 4:55 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone using this widget ?
>>
>> Is there some documentation (other than the obvious dictionary entries)
>> about how to do different kinds of chart ?
>>
>> In the last 4-6 months, I've done 3 or 4 little personal projects where
>> I wanted to create a chart, but I've not been able to figure out how to
>> use the charts widget to do time-based charts.
>>
>> What I mean is, e.g., create a chart for the following data ....
>>
>> 2022-02-01    100
>> 2022-02-04    500
>> 2022-02-05    525
>> 2022-02-17    900
>> ....
>>
>> Obviously, the dates along the X-axis should be spaced properly
>> according to their data value, not equally spaced and simply labelled.
>>
>> Looking at the charts.js documentation, it tells me (or rather, fails to
>> tell me, since I can't understand it) that I need to define an 'adapter'
>> and shows some sample javascript. I don't really understand how to do it
>> simply in javascript - far less how I could use that in the widget.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a clue or a pointer ?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>> P.S. currently I solved it using my own GraphMaker library (see LC
>> conference from 2018) - but I'd really like to retire that library in
>> favour of the new widget.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
>> subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>>
>