I have one question to the line chart.
I would like to create a line chart, which values are given. It should look like this chart here:
My question is, how can I implement this. I tried to put it as a stripline in the chart but it only shows a horizontal line without this steps at the beginning.
How can I create this line chart like in the picture above?
can I put into this:
the values.
Striplines are intended to display just a line across the chart, or varying width, height, to demonstrate an area... from MSDN
Strip lines, or strips, are horizontal or vertical ranges that shade the background of the chart in regular or custom intervals
To get the behaviour (I think) you require you can add a new series to the data you are returning with each of those datapoints. Irrespective of what other data you are charting, you can change the type of this series to Line Chart, and change the order of the series on teh chart to make it uppoermost.
Without further information - such as the data you are tyrying to superimpose this on - it's hard to advise further.
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I am new to using infragistic controls. I have added a ultraSparkLine to a VB 2017 application. I am doing it using in Area format. It is displaying work being accomplished during time frame. Want I would like to do is add a horizontal line that would show target rate of what is expected as work rate. I see I can have the Trendline but that seems to show average work rate for time frame being displayed.
Is it possible to add a horizontal line at a predetermined value?
There is no build in way to draw horizontal line. However you can use normal range to make something like a horizontal line. First set minimum and maximum to your chart. This will allow you to show the horizontal line above/bellow the spark line. Then set NormalRangeMaximum and NormalRangeMinimum to some very close values. For example if minimum is 0 and maximum is 100 I would set the ranges to let say 89.9 and 90.
As a final touch you can set NormalRangeFill to some brush as needed in your application.
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Writing to code to format a chart (all of which should be done by Microsoft, but that’s separate).
Am now positioning the legend. Taking a 9×9 block of possible positions, and counting the data points underneath each. As a fragment of the code: (ax.MaximumScale - ax.MinimumScale) * co.Chart.Legend.Width / co.Chart.PlotArea.InsideWidth.
Also coping with lines underlapping and text boxes overlapping the possible legend positions: same idea, more complexity.
Question
Obviously, all this works better if the legend is as small as possible, as that gives a greater likelihood of finding a location with zero ’lapping.
If .Legend.Width is too small, then the individual legend texts (the Series.Name’s) wrap onto ≥2 lines, which isn’t wanted. So VBA could interval bisect to find the smallest .Legend.Width for which there isn’t line wrapping. But how can the VBA code ‘see’|‘detect’|‘know’ of the existence of the line wrapping?
And mutatis mutandis for .Legend.Height: if that’s too small, some legend entries aren’t shown. How can the VBA code ‘see’|‘detect’|‘know’ that a height is too small?
Thank you.
PS: I expect that the correct answer is that “VBA cannot ‘see’|‘detect’|‘know’ either of these.” Please refute this expectation.
If you create your own legend, using a text box, you have better options when it comes to sizing and flow control. This will create a new set of challenges, but it might be easier to handle.
I'm not sure this is possible but thought this was the best place to ask.
Is it posible to get the position of a series value on a graph in excel?
For example, if I have a line graph in excel that has time along the x axis, is it possible to (using VBA) get the position of a specific point on that axis.
What I am trying to do is have a vertical line that is can be positioned based on a date entered by the user.
like this
Where the green line could be positioned by entering in a date (rather than just being manually moved) (or also it could be set to automatically move to the current date etc).
I was then thinking that if the position is on the graph is queryable, then I can just access the line object and move it to any position I wanted through VBA.
Any Ideas? or is this just not possible?
The "cleanest" way to do this is to add the line to the chart as a new series. In that way, Excel handles all of the positioning and your work is simplified. To get a vertical line on a chart, there are a number of options. I prefer this route:
Create a small 2x2 area with two dates and two values
Add in the date or x-axis value you want the line at (E3 in image). You can use =TODAY() here or some manually entered value.
Set the second x-axis value equal to the first
Use MAX and MIN on the data to get the values for each date. You can also use 0 and 1 and a secondary axis, but I think MAX/MIN is easier.
Add the data to the chart and format as a marker with straight line.
Formulas
E3: =TODAY()
E4: =E3
F3: =MIN(C3:C27)
F4: =MAX(C3:C27)
Result and chart data series for vertical line
I'm trying to get values (datalabels) of a columns polar chart INSIDE the actual column, and not on top of it. I've set inside: true property but it does not seem to have any effect, although it works pretty nicely while using a regular stacked columns chart for example.
Here is the fiddle showing the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/deurk/BeVyt/2/
Ideally, I'd like to have the datalabels in their "shares" if there is enough space, with white color. Does anyone have a workaround for this?
Thanks!
Indeed it looks like a bug, so I've reported it here https://github.com/highslide-software/highcharts.com/issues/1688
I am writing a macro in VBA for excel in which I would like to change the transparency of the lines connecting markers in a series but leave the transparency of the markers in the series the same.
To specify: the chart is a scatter plot. I would like the markers for a series to be opaque/zero transparency and for the lines in the series to be 75% transparent.
I have adjsuted the transparency of the lines by using
myseries.format.line.transparency = 0.75
but this changes the marker transparency as well.
does anyone know of a way I can change the transparency of the two separately? I imagine there is a member/property to do what I want, but I cannot find it.
thanks in advance for any help!
This answer isn't going to make you very happy.
I've looked into this before and the information i've gotten is that this simply isn't a parameter that you can specify through VBA. It looks like you can access marker style, size, background color and foreground color, and that's about it.
Maybe MS didn't think anyone would ever want to mess with that.
One thing you could try is applying a custom chart format, but if you have variable numbers and/or orders of series then that may not work.
mychart.ApplyChartTemplate ("filepath\filename.crtx")
Something like that, where mychart is already set equal to the chart you want to format.
Again, maybe not of any use to you, best i could think of.
You guys didn't dig hard enough.
SeriesCollection(i).Format.Line.Transparency
will work if the SeriesObject is in a certain state. The original 'automatic' line style state prevents this vba from doing anything at first, but if you simply precede it by setting certain other properties on the line format first, then the transparency will take. The following worked for me:
For Each obj In myChart.SeriesCollection
obj.Format.Line.DashStyle = 1
obj.Format.Line.Transparency = 0.65
Next obj
DashStyle = 1 sets the line style to 'Solid' (as opposed to dashed, dotted, etc.) and has the side effect of freeing up the series format to have the transparency set. I don't know for sure why it works, but it does.
Sorry, my mistake. I read the question slightly wrong.
I find that if I start the line with no markers, then turning transparency separately doesn't turn the markers on and off.
Try this:
activechart.SeriesCollection(1).format.fill.transparency=0.5