Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-06 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 09:46, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: Alexander Klenin wrote: This is yet another long-standing todo item. That was actually on the list?  And here I thought I was the only one using TAChart in such perverse ways... This is the last time it was brought up:

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 19:05, Rick wrote: Thanks for the feedback np :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-05 Thread Alexander Klenin
2010/6/5 Rick r...@sloservers.com: Well of course I don't look at the entire graph at once.  I zoom in to maybe 10 or 20 points at a time and use a scroll bar the pan the chart.  It's a run of data that I captured from a logic analyzer.  So when I'm zoomed-in, there's an appreciable

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-05 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: This is yet another long-standing todo item. That was actually on the list? And here I thought I was the only one using TAChart in such perverse ways... [I should publish my todo list somewhere... maybe as feature requests on issue tracker?] That's as good a

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: BTW, did you test events for TDataPointDragTool? I have implemented a different set of events than you suggested -- are they enough for your use case? The mailing list seems to be running really slow lately, almost as if it's only processing mail in nightly batches.

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:02, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: The mailing list seems to be running really slow lately, almost as if it's only processing mail in nightly batches. Are you sure it is not a problem on your side? I do not seem to notice a large delays for mails in other threads.

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: Are you sure it is not a problem on your side? I do not seem to notice a large delays for mails in other threads. I just sifted through the mail headers of a message I received from the list. It looks like the message queues on the list server in Austria at the

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 00:02, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: I'm having a little bit of trouble with my axis labels.  TAChart seems to only want to display even numbers on the horizontal axis, for example. Even when I use a custom source and set it to X values, it only shows the even numbers.

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: With linedemo: 1) Add TListChartSource component 2) Edit its DataPoints property, enter 1,2,...,10 on a separate lines 3) Set Marks.Source for bottom axis to that source 4) Set Marks.Style to smsXValue Of course, you can use UserDefinedSource instead for better

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:26, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:02, Rickr...@sloservers.com wrote: The mailing list seems to be running really slow lately, almost as if it's only processing mail in nightly batches. Are you sure it is not a problem on your side? I do not seem to notice

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread Rick
I had the problem for about the last three days, but it seems cleared up today. So we seem to have established that other people have been receiving mail fine, which rules out a problem with the list server itself. Meanwhile, my server is receiving mail from elsewhere but no connection

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-02 Thread Rick
I was able to use axis transformations/linear offset to stack several series vertically as we discussed. I discovered an issue with area series and linear transformation, however. I expected area series to shade the area between the horizontal axis and graph. Instead, it appears to fill the

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-31 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 15:57, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: Alexander Klenin wrote: My current thinking is that it should be a simple comma-separated list of series indexes, but that seems somewhat un-Pascalish, so maybe you have a better idea? I'm too new to Pascal and Lazarus to be of

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-30 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: Yes, I wanted to ask you the very same question ;-) The reason I did not implement it immediately is that I am not quite sure about the format of said property and how should it refer to the series. My current thinking is that it should be a simple comma-separated list of

[Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Rick
[oops, this went out from the wrong email address the first time I tried to send. Let me try this again, with the address I'm subscribed under] I'm using a snapshot version of Lazarus, so I have the latest updates to TAchart including tatools. I only mention it since it may affect the answers

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 17:00, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: There are several things I'd like to do with tachart that I have not yet been able to figure out how to do. Easy one: how can I change the thickness and color of the reticule? Not so easy, unfortunately. Currently, you can hack in

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: So let's take you as a representative sample ;-) Do you feel it is justified to remove these properties to get multiple reticules and TReticule.Pen property instead? As I was browsing through the code last night, I was actually surprised that the reticule pen property

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Rick
Alexander Klenin wrote: so I implemented it now -- see TConstantLineDragTool and toolsdemo at r25751 I just checked it out and played with the demo. WOW! I like :) The tools add-on was a brilliant idea, if these recent tools are any indication. I tried vertical and horizontal lines,

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 14:02, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: I am concerned about one thing, though:  It looks like the tool will move ANY TConstantLine series on the chart.  I would suggest a property in the drag tool that is a list of movable lines.  Perhaps if empty, the default could

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-05-29 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:13, Rick r...@sloservers.com wrote: Alexander Klenin wrote: As I was browsing through the code last night, I was actually surprised that the reticule pen property was not already made public in TAChart.  I'll have the check out the LineDragTool--it sounds like it