[Solved] Image as point mark

[Daniel (DeDU)]

I am trying to change the point marks in my spline chart to an image with no success. Is this possible?

I have made a simple program to show what I mean:

<telerik:RadChart ID="RadChart1" runat="server">
        <Series>
            <telerik:ChartSeries Type="Spline">
                <Appearance>
                    <TextAppearance TextProperties-Font="Arial, 8.25pt" />
                    <PointMark Visible="True" Dimensions-AutoSize="false" Dimensions-Height="10px" Dimensions-Width="10px">
                        <FillStyle MainColor="#FF0000" FillType="solid">
                        </FillStyle>
                    </PointMark>
                    <LineSeriesAppearance Width="5" />
                    <FillStyle MainColor="#999999" FillType="Solid">
                    </FillStyle>
                </Appearance>
                <Items>
                    <telerik:ChartSeriesItem YValue="1.3" ActiveRegion-Tooltip="test" >
                    </telerik:ChartSeriesItem>
                    <telerik:ChartSeriesItem YValue="6">
                    </telerik:ChartSeriesItem>
                    <telerik:ChartSeriesItem YValue="2">
                    </telerik:ChartSeriesItem>
                    <telerik:ChartSeriesItem YValue="8">
                    </telerik:ChartSeriesItem>
                </Items>
            </telerik:ChartSeries>
        </Series>
    </telerik:RadChart>

I would like to change the red point marks to different images depending to the x value, probably in ItemDataBound.

Best regards,
Andreas

[Velin]

Hello Andreas,

Fortunately this can be easily achieved. Here is the code you will need to run on every ChartSeriesItem in order to substitute the default PointMark appearance with a custom image of your own:

                    <telerik:ChartSeriesItem YValue="1" Name="Item 1">
                        <PointAppearance>
                            <FillStyle FillType="Image">
                                <FillSettings BackgroundImage="MyImage.jpg" />
                            </FillStyle>
                        </PointAppearance>
                    </telerik:ChartSeriesItem>

To change the image depending of the XValue property you will need to handle an event such as BeforeLayout where the ChartSeriesItems are accessible. Here is the code:

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RadChart2.BeforeLayout += new EventHandler<EventArgs>(RadChart2_BeforeLayout);
    }

    void RadChart2_BeforeLayout(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (ChartSeriesItem item in RadChart2.Series[0].Items)
        {
            string imageUrl = "MyImage.jpg";

            if(item.XValue > 5)
                imageUrl = "MyImage2.jpg";

            item.PointAppearance.FillStyle.FillType = Telerik.Charting.Styles.FillType.Image;
            item.PointAppearance.FillStyle.FillSettings.BackgroundImage = imageUrl;
        }
    }

Hope this will help.

All the best,
Velin
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[Daniel (DeDU)]

It works like a charm.

Thanks a lot!

[Quantesys IT]

Hello,

I try to personalize the point marks of my Chart with your code sample (server-side) but the modifications are not visible.

I use exactly the same code that you provide :

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RadChart2.BeforeLayout += new EventHandler<EventArgs>(RadChart2_BeforeLayout);
    }

    void RadChart2_BeforeLayout(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (ChartSeriesItem item in RadChart2.Series[0].Items)
        {
            string imageUrl = "MyImage.jpg";

            if(item.XValue > 5)
                imageUrl = "MyImage2.jpg";

            item.PointAppearance.FillStyle.FillType = Telerik.Charting.Styles.FillType.Image;
            item.PointAppearance.FillStyle.FillSettings.BackgroundImage = imageUrl;
        }
    }

My image is in PNG format, is that a problem for this Telerik component?

I am sure that my URL is well-formed because I use this image on other aspx pages without problems.

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,
Joël

[Ves]

Hi Joël,

The code snippet checks for XValue property of the ChartSeriesItem. This property is not always set. I have attached a small example, which uses two images, where the second one is applied only if the YValue is grater than 5.

Kind regards,
Ves
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[Quantesys IT]

I identify my problem but I don't understand the reason:

I have Chart with the price evolution of an object and I want to add a new serie to show different icons on the Chart (representing additional info for some situation).
My second serie has the type "Telerik.Charting.ChartSeriesType.Point" because I only want to display icons.

If I change the type of my serie to "Line", the PointMark are correctly modified and my personalized images are showed. The problem is that I need to use the type "Line" and that doesn't correspond to my needs.

Is that a normal behaviour of your Telerik component?

Thank you for your help.

Joël

[Ves]

Hi Joël ,

The Point series uses a different API as PointMark refers to the points displayed where different parts of a line series are joined. A Point series is filled just like Bar:

foreach (ChartSeriesItem item in RadChart1.Series[0].Items)
        {
            string imageUrl = "MyImg.png";

            if (item.YValue > 5)
                imageUrl = "MyImg2.png";

            item.Appearance.FillStyle.FillType = Telerik.Charting.Styles.FillType.Image;
            item.Appearance.FillStyle.FillSettings.BackgroundImage = imageUrl;
        }

Sincerely,
Ves
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[Quantesys IT]

Thank you for your help, it works perfectly!