Hi. Motion Chart is nice; I was pleased with how quickly I could get things working with it. Two thoughts:
1. I agree with SteveG, the default bubble data point unisize is too big. I want them to be all the same size, but with the unisize option most of my datapoints are all muddled up on top of each other. It would be helpful to have an option to change this size. 2. The treatment of the time axis as time-only is somewhat arbitrary. What I want to do is plot y vs. x while sliding in z. As long as z has some order, why does it have to be time? In my case my z happens to be an integer, so I can pretend it is a year and the chart works, but it would be nice if any number would work, and if it wouldn't be forced to be called "Time". It would be even nicer if the variable to use could be selectable like it is for x, y, color, size, etc. Regards, SJEB On May 31, 9:11 pm, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > The unisize bubbles' size cannot be controlled at the moment, yes. > > - Vizoy. > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:41 PM, SteveG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Let me verify: Are you saying the bubble data point size cannot be > > changed in a motion chart? > > These datapoint sizes are too big in my opinion. > > > Regards, > > Steve > > > On May 27, 2:58 pm, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just to clarify, > > > > I did add your request for zoom-in to the feature request list. > > > > - VizBoy. > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > Sorry for the late response. > > > > > As for scatterchart, it does not currently have zoom options. > > > > Thanks for the feature request suggestion, but unfortunately I cannot > > see > > > > this happening in the near future. > > > > > As for changing it yourself, the code is not open, the chart code is > > > > downloaded obfuscated, so you cannot really make changes to it easily. > > > > > Now for motionchart: > > > > IconType can be BAR or BUBBLE. think of it as chart type. It is, > > > > however, strongly discouraged to change this property in the state > > > > string manually as a manually created state string is very likely to > > > > contain conflicting properties. > > > > > As for hiding the bug bubble: > > > > There is currently no way to do this. The unisize scale with the chart > > > > size: small chart= small bubbles, large chart=larger bubbles. I'll > > > > consider it a feature request to set the unisize bubble size > > > > explicitly. > > > > > We don't really have a solution for 3 and 4. The motionchart does not > > > > support data without a time dimension. > > > > A 'hack' that might work is to use the embed option > > > > 'showSliderTimeDisplay' and set it to false. And if trails are turned > > > > off (through unchecking the trails checkbox or setting the state > > > > property directly: "showTrails":false.) > > > > > Hope this helps, and again sorry for the late response. > > > > > Regards, > > > > VizBoy. > > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Saj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Hello, > > > >> Both scatterchart and motionchart are great! Thanks to Google for > > > >> providing these tools. Can anyone help me answer the following > > > >> questions? > > > > >> scatterchart: > > > >> 1. zooming in: I looked into the scatterchart configuration > > > >> operations but could not find anything about being able to zoom in. > > > >> Does scatterchart have any zoom capability? If not yet, this would be > > > >> a great feature to add. Second, is there a way for me to add a zoom > > > >> capability to it by going into the code? If so, where is a good > > > >> starting point for me to do this. > > > > >> motionchart: I love the zoom feature here but do not need the motion > > > >> in time feature as I have no time variable in my data. > > > > >> 1. iconType: In the state string, I see that the iconType is > > > >> BUBBLE. Is there a way for me to change the icon type? If so what > > > >> are other options? > > > > >> 2. I require same size bubbles but the default bubble size is too big > > > >> as I will have ~1000 bubbles. What is the easiest way for me to make > > > >> the bubble size much smaller (more like a point)? > > > > >> cumbersome method that I use: The only way that I found how to do > > > >> this is to add another column to the datatable where all of the point > > > >> have a "1" in this column but I have to add another row which is a > > > >> very large number number like "100". Now if I display the bubble > > > >> sizes by this new column, all the bubble sizes are small except for > > > >> one. > > > > >> hiding the big bubble: Now to "hide" this big bulky unwanted useless > > > >> bubble, since I am not using the time dimension, I give this bubble a > > > >> different time than all the other useful small bubbles. > > > > >> Questions (3 and 4) have to do with getting rid of the time > > > >> information in the motionchart: > > > > >> 3. I have no time dimension in my data. I can give all the rows the > > > >> same time such that the motion time bar will not appear. However at > > > >> the bottom of the chart, the one assigned time appears. How do I get > > > >> rid of it? > > > > >> 4. When I click on a bubble, the name of the bubble and the time > > > >> appears. How do I get rid of the time there? > > > >> Is there an easier way to deal these requirements?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
