Hi Ingid , thanks for providing the hack ..it is never a good Idea to hack ; but if i have no other choice then i'll try your method.
there is a small issue i'm facing with the diagram vertical grid : i want to have a dashed line vertical grid . i wrote code to get this effect (see code below) .it indeed displays the dashed line for vertical grid ..but the problem is when i tried to play with the attributes of LineDash, it always gives me same dashed grid. it seems that this line code is not executed : xGridProp.setPropertyValue( "LineDash", aDash ); because if i comment this line code i get the same grid as if i don't comment it . can you point me what is the issue with LineDash ? thanks . code: // x major grid XPropertySet xGridProp = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, ( (XAxisXSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XAxisXSupplier.class, maDiagram )).getXMainGrid()); if( xGridProp != null ) { LineDash aDash = new LineDash(); aDash.Style = DashStyle.ROUND; aDash.Dots = 2; aDash.DotLen = 10; aDash.Dashes = 1; aDash.DashLen = 200; aDash.Distance = 100; xGridProp.setPropertyValue( "LineColor", new Integer( 0x000000 )); xGridProp.setPropertyValue( "LineStyle", LineStyle.DASH ); xGridProp.setPropertyValue( "LineDash", aDash ); xGridProp.setPropertyValue( "LineWidth", new Integer( 30 )); } Ingrid Halama wrote: > > Hi, > > othman wrote: >> Hi Ingrid, >> I believe the zooming feature might be beyond the scope of my project >> requirements now.. > > Ok. > >> anyway i wish if you can think adding the feature of scaling the dates >> x-axis values for candle charts : date objects are a widely used data >> type >> and offering this feature of scaling date ranges would be a good Idea. >> > > I agree and I know. There are still a lot of issues of similar quality. > Work is ongoing. > >> i have a small issue : >> There is concern on the x-axis labels. I need to display only one date >> label for each month. For instance, if the chart starts from Dec 6 2007, >> there should be labels of 12/6/2007, 1/6/2008, 2/6/2008, 3/6/2008, >> 4/6/2008, >> 5/6/2008 on x-axis. and other date labels should not be displayed on >> x-axis >> . how can i implement this ? >> > > At the moment there exists no good/normal/acceptable way to do that > (neither API nor user interface). You can only try to hack: > > Assuming you have a data point for each day (ordered in time) and you > have a cell range containing all those days you can try the following: > Copy all the dates to another location in the calc. Calculate which of > the days you want to display and which not. Clear the cells with the > dates that you do not want to display. Use the newly created cell-range > (including all the cleared cells) for display of the categories. To use > the new range for category display you need to do the following: > Query the com::sun::star::chart2::Diagram for interface > XCoordinateSystemContainer > (http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/chart2/XCoordinateSystemContainer.html). > Get the first coordinate system: > http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/chart2/XCoordinateSystem.html. > At the coordinate system use method getAxisByDimension(0,0) to get the > primary x axis > (http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/chart2/XAxis.html). > At the axis get the scale data by using method getScaleData > (http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/chart2/ScaleData.html). > At the scale you will find a member "Categories" of type > XLabeledDataSequence. You know already how to create such objects from > cell ranges. Set the role of the values to "categories" in this case. > Then set the new sequence to the Categories member and set the changed > scale back to the axis (setScaleData). Be careful when playing around > with the other scale settings as not all of them are saved and loaded, > some do not have an effect at all so far. > > This hack has a problem. When the user changes the original dates after > creation of the chart, the chart will not reflect those changes. Don't > know whether that is important in your scenario. > > Kind regards, > Ingrid > >> thanks. >> >> othman. >> >> >> >> >> Ingrid Halama wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> othman wrote: >>>> Hi Ingrid, >>>> as we all know the candle chart has two bars (black and white) >>>> I guess that by changing the bar width, the chart can have a larger >>>> date >>>> range displayed. >>> No. >>> >>>> I am not sure whether this is the correct direction to fix >>>> the x-axis scale problem . what you think about that ? and is it >>>> possible >>>> to >>>> change the width of candle chart bars ? >>> No, that is not the right direction to fix the problem. It is not >>> possible to set a manual width to the candles. The width is calculated >>> automatically dependent on the amount of data and the place provided. >>> >>> So again, I would suggest to change the data ranges on your zooming >>> control. >>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> othman >>>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Ingrid >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/discussing-com%3Asun%3Astar%3Achart2-API-tp19268400p19555243.html Sent from the openoffice - api dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]