I've seen the same question on the windows forms side 4 years ago. The blocks need to be more square and less sliver looking rectangles. The image is useless. Think of the aspect ratio, I want as close to a 1:1 or even 2:1 as possible. I'm getting from 200:1 to 1:1. If this is a feature request let me know.
Is there possibly a setting that I'm missing?
Hello air1kdf,
ThreeMap Chart arranges its nodes based on their size value, in such way so that the node covers a region with area corresponding to the surface area relative to its parent
These nodes will be automatically placed on such way which covered the above condition.
The size of the nodes themselves is calculated based on the sizes provided in your Data Source. The ratio however is automatically assigned based on these sizes.
If you want different style or algorithm to be applied to this chart you may use the forum’s blue button to the right (“Submit Product Idea”) and log this as control enhancement. You can also use the main UserVoice site for this - http://ideas.infragistics.com/forums/192357-general
You should describe in detail what changes need to be done and attach a screenshot for example showing the expected end result.
I submitted the idea here.
Every single Infragistics example here uses the squarified algorithm.
In addition the first image on the Infragistics WPF page is also displaying the squarified algorithm.
To test this, add 100 nodes, and ask yourself if you would ever show this to a client.
I appreciate the feedback, I really do. I beg you to actually try it, and report back what you think of the look. Even try 20 nodes, it's pretty bad.
There are other three map chart types apart from Rectangular one – Circular and Ring.
In some scenarios they can be used instead of Rectangular type - http://es.infragistics.com/products/aspnet/sample/chart/specifying-the-treemaptype
We are currently developing many new types of charts for our IGNITEUI (jQuery) series of controls - http://es.infragistics.com/products/jquery/chart/. These charts will have much more functionalities than the current ASP.NET charts. In the future these charts will be our main type of charts for Web Development. You can log a new Idea there too so we can plan addition of such chart in this line of controls.
Hey Alex,
Thanks for the update. The other types work, but not what I need. If there were a treemap on JQuery or if the chart could do a treemap, I would use it if it had the squarified algorithm.
Right now I'm shoehorning a WPF control into the site for the functionality. This is not the most ideal because I'm now bound to IE on a windows device, but for now it is working.
Yes, right now the main option is to use our WPF or Silverlight based TreeMap charts. This will however limit application usability under non-Microsoft platforms and devices.
I hope that TreeMap chart for IGNITEUI line of controls will be available soon. We are currently implementing most of the Silverlight/WPF charts functionality in our jQuery line of controls exactly because of its multiplatform support.
Thank you.