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Trackball issue Workaround? (fixed in sp1)

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Toni
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Toni asked on 29 Nov 2013, 09:17 AM
Hey,

We are kinda in problems with chartview's trackball issue. Every time we swap our serie's CombineMode and move mouse over chart, our program crashes. We are still running with Q3 -version (can't rush SP1 update as we have to pre-plan these ones). We have allready tested that in SP1 issue is fixed, as you have reported in release notes.

Do you happen to have any workaround for Q3's trackball issue, so that we could keep running with current version for couple more months?


Best Regards,
Toni Hämeenniemi

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George
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answered on 03 Dec 2013, 04:11 PM
Hi Toni,

Thank you for contacting us.

Yes, there is a workaround for this issue. You need to create the following class:
public class MyController : ChartTrackballController
{
    protected override string GetTrackballText(List<DataPointInfo> points)
    {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder("<html>");
  
        SortedDictionary<ChartSeries, List<DataPoint>> visiblePoints = new SortedDictionary<ChartSeries, List<DataPoint>>(new ChartSeriesComparer());
  
        foreach (DataPointInfo pointInfo in points)
        {
            if (visiblePoints.ContainsKey(pointInfo.Series))
            {
                visiblePoints[pointInfo.Series].Add(pointInfo.DataPoint);
            }
            else
            {
                visiblePoints.Add(pointInfo.Series, new List<DataPoint>() { pointInfo.DataPoint });
            }
        }
  
        int counter = 0;
        foreach (ChartSeries series in visiblePoints.Keys)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < visiblePoints[series].Count; i++)
            {
                Color pointColor = this.GetColorForDataPoint(series, visiblePoints[series][i]);
                string color = string.Format("{0},{1},{2},{3}", pointColor.A, pointColor.R, pointColor.G, pointColor.B);
                result.AppendFormat("<color={0}>{1}", color, this.GetPointText(visiblePoints[series][i]));
  
                if (i < visiblePoints[series].Count)
                {
                    result.Append(" ");
                }
            }
  
            counter++;
  
            if (counter < visiblePoints.Keys.Count)
            {
                result.Append("\n");
            }
        }
  
        result.Append("</html>");
  
        return result.ToString();
    }
  
    class ChartSeriesComparer : IComparer<ChartSeries>
    {
        public ChartSeriesComparer()
        {
        }
  
        public int Compare(ChartSeries x, ChartSeries y)
        {
            if (!(x is IndicatorBase) && y is IndicatorBase)
            {
                return -1;
            }
            else if (x is IndicatorBase && !(y is IndicatorBase))
            {
                return 1;
            }
  
            return x.GetHashCode().CompareTo(y.GetHashCode());
        }
    }
}

You can use this controller as follows:
for (int i = 0; i < this.radChartView1.Controllers.Count; i++)
{
    if (this.radChartView1.Controllers[i] is ChartTrackballController)
    {
        this.radChartView1.Controllers.RemoveAt(i);
        this.radChartView1.Controllers.Add(new MyChartTrackballController());
        break;
    }
}

I hope this helps.

Regards,
George
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answered on 30 Jan 2014, 04:18 PM
Looking at this example, what if I wanted to display the X axis value for the points being displayed in the TrackBallInfo Element.

The GetPointText method returns the text value as a string for the point it is passed, but only the Y coordinate.

result.AppendFormat("<color={0}>{1}", color,this.GetPointText(visiblePoints[series][i]));


What if I wanted the X coordinate value too? either as a double or as a string or whatever.

Thanks

Michael
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George
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answered on 04 Feb 2014, 12:32 PM
Hello Michael,

Thank you for replying.

You can use the TrackBallPointTextNeeded event of the ChartSeries. For example, if you have AreaSeries:
foreach (Telerik.WinControls.UI.AreaSeries series in this.chart.Series)
{
    series.TrackballPointTextNeeded += series_TrackballPointTextNeeded;
}
 
void series_TrackballPointTextNeeded(object sender, TrackballPointTextNeededEventArgs e)
{
    e.Text = string.Format(" {0}", ((CategoricalDataPoint)e.Point).Category);
}

I hope this helps.

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George
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