Title of this post is a little bit misleading because it is not possible to use ChartScroller directly with CategoryAxis. This is because ChartScroller relays on axis minimum/maximum properties which are not present in CategoryAxis. Luckily it is possible to simulate CategoryAxis behavior with LinearAxis which is supported by ChartScroller. I will describe how to do it in this post.
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Scrolling and zooming chart with ChartScroller
Some time ago I presented scrolling chart by using modified axis renderer (ScrollableAxisRenderer). I rethought this concept and come to the point that axis renderer should render axis not scroll the chart, so chart scrolling should be implemented as separate component. This is especially true in case of charts with many axes and renderers. My new idea was to create nonvisual component which will take reference to a chart and add appropriate listeners modifying axes minimum/maximum to achieve scrolling /zooming.
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Scrollable Chart Axis Renderer
Some time ago I was asked to create column chart representing data in time with user friendly interface to change period of analysis. Current solution was consisted of two data fields to select date range and it was OK but it wasn’t really Flexy.
I decided to enable scrolling the chart by dragging the axis so that if one wants to see what’s beyond the left edge of chart (s)he can simply drag the charts horizontal axis and scroll it right. To enable zooming the data I chose to use mouse wheel. Generally these ideas was based on popular maps services interfaces.
This example is deprecated, consider using ChartScroller instead!!!
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