Hi Thanks for you comments. We have added a feature request to support a wider range of time angularities including arbitrary labels.
ChartMan On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM, SJEB <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. Motion Chart is nice; I was pleased with how quickly I could get > things working with it. Two thoughts: > > 1. I agree with SteveG, the default bubble data point unisize is too > big. I want them to be all the same size, but with the unisize option > most of my datapoints are all muddled up on top of each other. It > would be helpful to have an option to change this size. > > 2. The treatment of the time axis as time-only is somewhat arbitrary. > What I want to do is plot y vs. x while sliding in z. As long as z > has some order, why does it have to be time? In my case my z happens > to be an integer, so I can pretend it is a year and the chart works, > but it would be nice if any number would work, and if it wouldn't be > forced to be called "Time". It would be even nicer if the variable to > use could be selectable like it is for x, y, color, size, etc. > > Regards, > > SJEB > > > > On May 31, 9:11 pm, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > The unisize bubbles' size cannot be controlled at the moment, yes. > > > > - Vizoy. > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:41 PM, SteveG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Let me verify: Are you saying the bubble data point size cannot be > > > changed in a motion chart? > > > These datapoint sizes are too big in my opinion. > > > > > Regards, > > > Steve > > > > > On May 27, 2:58 pm, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just to clarify, > > > > > > I did add your request for zoom-in to the feature request list. > > > > > > - VizBoy. > > > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Sorry for the late response. > > > > > > > As for scatterchart, it does not currently have zoom options. > > > > > Thanks for the feature request suggestion, but unfortunately I > cannot > > > see > > > > > this happening in the near future. > > > > > > > As for changing it yourself, the code is not open, the chart code > is > > > > > downloaded obfuscated, so you cannot really make changes to it > easily. > > > > > > > Now for motionchart: > > > > > IconType can be BAR or BUBBLE. think of it as chart type. It is, > > > > > however, strongly discouraged to change this property in the state > > > > > string manually as a manually created state string is very likely > to > > > > > contain conflicting properties. > > > > > > > As for hiding the bug bubble: > > > > > There is currently no way to do this. The unisize scale with the > chart > > > > > size: small chart= small bubbles, large chart=larger bubbles. I'll > > > > > consider it a feature request to set the unisize bubble size > > > > > explicitly. > > > > > > > We don't really have a solution for 3 and 4. The motionchart does > not > > > > > support data without a time dimension. > > > > > A 'hack' that might work is to use the embed option > > > > > 'showSliderTimeDisplay' and set it to false. And if trails are > turned > > > > > off (through unchecking the trails checkbox or setting the state > > > > > property directly: "showTrails":false.) > > > > > > > Hope this helps, and again sorry for the late response. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > VizBoy. > > > > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Saj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >> Hello, > > > > >> Both scatterchart and motionchart are great! Thanks to Google for > > > > >> providing these tools. Can anyone help me answer the following > > > > >> questions? > > > > > > >> scatterchart: > > > > >> 1. zooming in: I looked into the scatterchart configuration > > > > >> operations but could not find anything about being able to zoom > in. > > > > >> Does scatterchart have any zoom capability? If not yet, this > would be > > > > >> a great feature to add. Second, is there a way for me to add a > zoom > > > > >> capability to it by going into the code? If so, where is a good > > > > >> starting point for me to do this. > > > > > > >> motionchart: I love the zoom feature here but do not need the > motion > > > > >> in time feature as I have no time variable in my data. > > > > > > >> 1. iconType: In the state string, I see that the iconType is > > > > >> BUBBLE. Is there a way for me to change the icon type? If so > what > > > > >> are other options? > > > > > > >> 2. I require same size bubbles but the default bubble size is too > big > > > > >> as I will have ~1000 bubbles. What is the easiest way for me to > make > > > > >> the bubble size much smaller (more like a point)? > > > > > > >> cumbersome method that I use: The only way that I found how to do > > > > >> this is to add another column to the datatable where all of the > point > > > > >> have a "1" in this column but I have to add another row which is a > > > > >> very large number number like "100". Now if I display the bubble > > > > >> sizes by this new column, all the bubble sizes are small except > for > > > > >> one. > > > > > > >> hiding the big bubble: Now to "hide" this big bulky unwanted > useless > > > > >> bubble, since I am not using the time dimension, I give this > bubble a > > > > >> different time than all the other useful small bubbles. > > > > > > >> Questions (3 and 4) have to do with getting rid of the time > > > > >> information in the motionchart: > > > > > > >> 3. I have no time dimension in my data. I can give all the rows > the > > > > >> same time such that the motion time bar will not appear. However > at > > > > >> the bottom of the chart, the one assigned time appears. How do I > get > > > > >> rid of it? > > > > > > >> 4. When I click on a bubble, the name of the bubble and the time > > > > >> appears. How do I get rid of the time there? > > > > >> Is there an easier way to deal these requirements?- Hide quoted > text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
