Hi Infragistics,
I'm trying to highlight some data in a bar or column series. I want a few of the columns to be highlighted, not just one category. In an ideal world, most of the columns would be semi-opaque, and the highlighted columns would not.
I'm populating my data from a view model, so the normal WPF way is to have an 'IsHighlighted' property in each data point view model, and use a data trigger in a style in Xaml. All very neat.
Not so, apparently. I've seen some horrendous workarounds on the forum for the people who come across this problem. The most likely solution was a few hundred lines of code.
Note, some have suggested I use a series for each column and set the opacity there. That doesn't work in my scenario because I'm also creating clustered and stacked charts.
Help!
Thanks
Pete
HI Peter,
I found a post that may help you resolve your issue:
http://es.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/51834.aspx
Sincerely, Matt
Developer Support Engineer
Thanks Matt, I've seen that post before and others like it trying to solve roughly the same problem, and it really doesn't really help.
Your example shows how to change a style in response to mouse enter. This is not even close to my requirement. I have data points set from view models. I need to set the style programatically, whether it be mvvm or any other way.
I'm having to use code-behind already, just to use a dynamic number of series. I don't mind continuing like that, if I can only find a solution.
I also tried a data trigger in the implicit rectangle style, but you are not passing the data item through.
Highlighting data is the most simple and fundamental requirement in a chart. It's a shame if it's not possible.
thanks
Or maybe I could use mutliple category highlight layers. They almost suit my requirement, if I can highlight more than one category, and I can set which categories are highlighted programatically?
I'm going to have to keep throwing development days at this, because it's a blocking issue for us here. We can get it to work in a chart that displays a single series, using help from this post:
http://es.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/51914.aspx
When we are showing multiple series on the same chart, we are struggling to bind the rectangle to the item source of the correct series.
HI,
I am attaching a sample that allows you to select a marker.
Please review my sample. LeftClick on a marker to select it.
Sincerely,
Matt
all ok thanks.
Hi ,
Please let me know if you need further assistance regarding this issue.
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Matt,
thanks for your continued support.
We've found a temporary solution by altering the code in the ColumnSeries to popupate the data context with our data item, and then just using a binding in the implicit Rectangle style. I think you're right that we should submit a feature request, as we don't benefit from your unit tests or quality assurance if we change the code ourselves.
At least we can continue with our implementation.
We should submit a feature request for this issue.
I have another solution that will work as long as the columns of the chart are not scrolled in an out of view.
I making use of the Rectangle Loaded event. As each chart is loaded, I put an index number in the tag property.
Here is my sample.
MattDeveloper Support Engineer