I want to begin with a special thanks to CodeProject for providing so many useful samples, and thanks especially to the author of this article: Customizing the .NET Panel control.
If you know about the EBP products, then you'll remember their main board with a simple but cool isometric 3D chart. So, let's do the same here. All the code has been verified under Microsoft FxCop 1.35.
I'm not very comfortable in writing articles even in French, so English isn't better ;p.
Let's see the creation code:
// Object declaration
Nolme.WinForms.Chart m_chartSample1;
// Create object
this.m_chartSample1 = new Nolme.WinForms.Chart(this.components);
this.m_chartSample1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Silver;
this.m_chartSample1.BottomMargin = 20;
this.m_chartSample1.ColumnFont = new System.Drawing.Font(
"Arial", 8F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Italic);
this.m_chartSample1.ColumnTitleFont = new System.Drawing.Font(
"Arial", 10F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Underline);
this.m_chartSample1.Curvature = 15;
this.m_chartSample1.DeltaDepth = 10;
this.m_chartSample1.DisplayHiddenSides = true;
this.m_chartSample1.DisplayTextOnColumns = true;
this.m_chartSample1.GradientMode =
System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.ForwardDiagonal;
this.m_chartSample1.LeftMargin = 50;
this.m_chartSample1.LegendFont = new System.Drawing.Font(
"Arial", 11F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
this.m_chartSample1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 8);
this.m_chartSample1.MainTitle = "Main title";
this.m_chartSample1.MainTitleFont = new System.Drawing.Font(
"Arial", 16F,
((System.Drawing.FontStyle)((System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold |
System.Drawing.FontStyle.Underline))));
this.m_chartSample1.MarginBetweenColumn = 20;
this.m_chartSample1.Name = "m_chartSample1";
this.m_chartSample1.RightMargin = 20;
this.m_chartSample1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(456, 304);
this.m_chartSample1.TabIndex = 4;
this.m_chartSample1.TopMargin = 20;
this.m_chartSample1.VerticalAxisMaxValue = 10000;
this.m_chartSample1.VerticalAxisStep = 1000;
Adding a column to the chart is done with the following code:
ChartColumn column1 =
m_chartSample1.AddColumn (1500, 210, 0, 500);
Each number represents a sub-value in the new column. You can pass an integer array if you have more values.
You can set the column title like this:
column1.Title = "January";
Other attributes like the margins, main title, etc., can be changed.
There were two choices on the legend of the graph. We could either integrate the legend into the current panel, or make another independent object. The main intention is to provide a centralized unique legend if multiple charts are used on the same page.
To summarize, a Chart (derived from CustomPanel) contains one or more CharColumns. A ChartLegend is composed of CharLegendItems. There are as many CharLegendItems as sub-values in a CharColumn.
I've tried to make the code as simple as possible so that anyone can upgrade it.
Nothing actually.
ShiftLeft, to shift columns from one step to the left.
ChartColumn integrates a default constructor and ResetValues. DisplayBorders in ChartColumn.cs.
ChartRenderingMode enum.
ChartCumulativeMode enum can define where a label on the column is placed.
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