Hi again, Yes ScatterChart can have lines. Set the lineSize option to a positive value (try 2 for instance) to get a line between your points.
- VizBoy. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Felix Halim <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > These are two different questions. > > Let's separate the discussion. > > > > 1. Can line chart support a value based X axis? > > > > The answer is no, because this is the common use of a line chart. A > scatter > > chart can have a line, and that it on our feature request list, but a > line > > chart is almost always category based. Look in Microsoft Excel for > instance, > > and you'll see a similar behavior. > > Oh I see, I was confused LineChart with XYChart (which is a ScatterChart). > If ScatterChart can have lines (just like Excel), it's what I need > actually. > It'd be much appreciated if this feature is realized soon :) > That's one of the most important basic functionality for XYChart. > > > > 2. Can line chart support a number datatype even though it treats it as > > category/label based? > > In this case, it's a more delicate question. > > Usually you can circumvent this problem by casting to String in the > > javascript. > > It is also in our roadmap to add a means in the query langauge to do type > > casting. > > Do you still see this as a needed feature to support numbers? > > Type conversion can be done easily, so it's not an issue for me. > > However it's somehow annoying when we forgot to cast it to string and > the viz complaints about mismatch data type. I think it's better to > convert the values automatically to the specified column data type > (since this is what we want). > > Thanks, > > Felix Halim > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
