Okay, that totally didn’t work… including all the strike-out text. (sigh) Let me just say that I’m really liking the Cart widget, even if I can’t quite getting working for me yet.
— Scott > On Feb 22, 2022, at 6:23 PM, scott--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Alex, I’m replying off list because my ulterior motive is to ask you a > question. > > Argh. I see, after re-reading your post, that my remarks are useless. > > I’ve been spending a bit of time trying to replace my old chartsEngine > library with the new chart widget. I haven’t tried any of the commands that > wrap JSON. So, ultimately I have no answer to your question. I’ve used the > more simplistic COMMA delimited [ set the csvData of widget "Chart" to > tCSVData ]. (The TAB delimited one seems to work also.) > > One thing that sometimes made a difference about what displayed was using: [ > set the lockChartUpdates of widget "Chart" to “true” ] before messing with > the widget and then [ set the lockChartUpdates of widget "Chart" to “false” ] > when I was done. > > I suspect that you have tried this already but... > > Using [ put > "cats"&COMMA&"19"&CR&"dogs"&COMMA&"12"&&CR&"gerbils"&COMMA&"5"&&CR&"wombats"&COMMA&"9" > into tCSVData ] puts “cats, dogs, gerbils and wombats” along the X-axis for > me. > > I found that: [ set the dataLabels of widget "Chart" to > "Cats,Dogs,Gerbils,Wombats” ] would also set the X-axis labels if it matched > up with the number of data points. > > > My question for you, since you’ve been messing with the widget, is about > setting the alpha / transparency of the chartBackgroundColor property. Only > one time have I seen it work as expected from the property inspector and > never have I been able to produce a transparent background by script. I was > wondering if you had tried this property. (I posted about this in bugzilla > and the mothership asked me to create a separate bug report because it worked > fine for them… I don’t have a problem creating a bug report, it just seemed > odd that it absolutely doesn’t work for me.) > > -- > Scott Morrow > > Elementary Software > (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) > web https://elementarysoftware.com/ > email sc...@elementarysoftware.com > booth 1-360-734-4701 > mobile 1-360-920-0715 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > >> On Feb 22, 2022, at 5:54 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I've been trying to use the new chart widget, but no success yet. >> >> All the charts I want to do have times (or dates) along the X axis. >> >> I can see that any options which have not been wrapped in LC can be set by >> doing something like: >> >> put the chartJSONOptions of widget "mine" into tA >> put "time" into tA["scales"]["x"]["type"] >> set the chartJSONOptions of widget "mine" to tA >> >> but this still gives me >> >> Error: This method is not implemented: >> Check that a complete date adapter is provided. >> >> >> and I have no idea how to provide a date adapter from LC. >> >> Has anyone else tried date/times with more success ? >> >> (The chart.js documentation implies there is a default adapter - so nothing >> should need to be done. It also talks about installing JS libraries for >> other adapters - but I don't quite get it). >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alex. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
