I'd like the X and Y axes of my Excel charts to have the same scale on the screen, because I'm plotting geographical data. A 1km by 1km square should look like a square, not like a rectangle, i.e. no squishing of the map in one or the other direction. In Matlab, the command that would do this is axis equal.
How do I do this using VBA?
Am I overlooking an even simpler solution directly in Excel?
In addition to guitarthrower's answer you will need to do the following:
Select the 'Plot Area' of the chart and then manually set the height and width of the plot area.
Sheets("Chart1").PlotArea.Select
Selection.Height = 500
Selection.Width = 500
Just setting the axis min and max values will still allow the chart to be 'squished'.
When you select the plot area and write Selection.Width = something, the Width value you are setting also includes the width of the axis labels/text. This may not be what you want.
Instead, you can set the INSIDE Width/Height value using
Selection.InsideHeight = 250
Selection.InsideWidth = 250
Another method similar to Stewbob's is to set the limits to some ratio of each other (my plots are 4 times as wide as they are tall) and then use the height to set the width.
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Select
Selection.Width = Selection.Height * 4
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I have a chart that has strings for its x axis (a list of names). It's linked to a dynamic array, I have a problem where the graph resizes itself and squeezes 14-15 strings from the array and makes the bar chart small and tiny.
How can I achieve chunky bars and a scroll bar to scroll down to see the rest of the data even when new values are being added to the x-axis at runtime.
Have spent an hour searching with no help! =[
Edit:
Setting the PixelPointWidth Property to 300 gave me the width of the bar the way I want to be, but it has bunched the bars so that all the bars of the 4 series are overlapping instead of being side by side. WHere to go from here?
Edit2:
Manipulating the charts height is definitely getting the desired results, the only thing is the bigger the height, the more white space at the top of the chart, whats the fix for that,. and a fix for the Series representations to be "frozen" on scroll.
You can set the width of the chart every time you add new data to it:
Dim barWidth = Double.Parse(Chart1.Series(0)("PixelPointWidth"))
Chart1.Width = CInt(nData * barWidth) + 100
where nData is how many points there are and the 100 is some amount to take into account the space needed for the Y-axis labels and the legend.
Place the chart control in a Panel as suggested by jmcilhinney with AutoScroll set to true, and you will get a scrollbar when the width of the chart exceeds the width of the panel.
If you want the chart to show the latest added data, you can set the horizontal scroll position after setting the width of the chart:
Panel1.HorizontalScroll.Value = Panel1.HorizontalScroll.Maximum
I have created a bubble chart using the fusion charts api in asp.net. The question/issue I have is leaning more on scaling the chart itself, rather than the particular library I used to generate it.
The chart I have is designed like this:
X = roi
y = lift
circle size = revenue
The code below sets the max/min values of the x axis:
roiMax += 30 'pad the max and min roi values so the bubble wont cut off
roiMin -= 30
I used the new roi min/max values and set them as the minimum/maximum x axis values. It seems to work in most cases. However, if the points displayed are all near each other, then the bubbles become squished together.
If I comment out the portion where I set the x/y max min value of the chart, it looks to scale more properly. However, there are bubbles that cut off if it reaches the edge of the chart. So I want to try to set min/max values for x and y so I can show the full bubble. However, to do that I need to use the circle size to grab the length so I can determine the proper chart limits. Is there a way to convert the size into units of x or the units of y for me to find the proper limit?
I'm making plots where the (0,0) position is not necessarily in the bottom left corner of the plot frame, meaning that the x and y axes and their ticks cross within the plot frame. It's fine to have the lines, ticks and their values within the frame, but having the axis titles so near to their lines interferes with visualization of certain data points.
I'd simply like to force the x and y axis titles to be at the bottom and far left of the plot frame, respectively; it doesn't work to simply 'pad' the xlabel or ylabel titles because the padding I'd need would vary between plots.
How to get the titles always in these consistent locations of the plot frame, even if the corresponding axis lines, ticks/values may vary in the plot frame space?
Thank you.
I'd like to add a note here. It seemed to me that it could be possible to define the xlabel and ylabel 'labelpad' values directly from the data range:
For example, one could find the minimum x-value of the minimum y-value (this would set the position of the x-axis label), and the minimum x-value of the minimum x-value (this would set the position of the y-axis label):
xpad = ax.get_ylim()[0]
ypad = ax.get_xlim()[0]
Then use these values in xlabel and ylabel parameters as labelpads:
pylab.xlabel("X Title", fontsize=12, labelpad=abs(xpad))
pylab.ylabel("Y Title", fontsize=12, labelpad=abs(ypad))
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like labelpad can accept variables. Any suggestions that might allow a work-around?
I have a horizontal bar chart where I decided to hide the Y axis and display the axis labels inside the chart:
Now I'd like to know how I can tell Dimple to use the free space (see red rectangle) available from hiding the Y axis.
You set the bounds of the plot area with setMargins or setBounds. Dimple doesn't automatically size to accommodate axes. So just set the left margin to about 10px.
i am using MPAndroid charting toolkit for data visualization. chart plotting smooth in MPAndroid but problem arise when i try plot dual y axis(left& right). As right axis appear data points on spread over the x axis completely. all data points appearing on the left of chart. How can i spread the data points ?
mChart = (LineChart) findViewById(R.id.Chart);
mChart.setGridBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#F4F4F4"));
mChart.setDrawGridBackground(false);
mChart.setTouchEnabled(true);
mChart.setHighlightEnabled(false);
mChart.setDragEnabled(false);
mChart.setScaleEnabled(true);
mChart.setPinchZoom(true);
mChart.setDescription("");
mChart.getAxisLeft().setAxisMaxValue(YMaxValue);
mChart.getAxisLeft().setAxisMinValue(YMinValue);
mChart.getAxisLeft().setStartAtZero(false);
mChart.getAxisRight().setEnabled(false);
if(General.InnerClass.Y2AxisValues.size()>0)
{
mChart.getAxisRight().setEnabled(true);
mChart.getAxisRight().setSpaceBottom(12.25f);
mChart.getAxisRight().setAxisMaxValue(Y2MaxValue);
mChart.getAxisRight().setAxisMinValue(Y2MinValue);
mChart.getAxisRight().setStartAtZero(false);
mChart.getXAxis().setAvoidFirstLastClipping(true);
}
mChart.setData(data);
progbar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
mChart.invalidate();
Before
After
The data points are exactly where they should be. The only thing that has changed is the range of values that is displayed on each axis.
--> this range is now significationly lower because only one set of data is represented by each axis, before, one axis had to scale large enough to display both datasets.
I suggest you read the documentation of the YAxis and simply increase the range of values that should be displayed on the axis.
while plotting y2 axis providing the x values is the problem. values for the x axis should be provide for single time. providing twice add the values to x axis exiting values get doubled.
thnx #philipp