Use these Icons after Installing SCICHART

Getting Started with SCICHART

Jun 16

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Getting Started – Contents

01 Start Menu and Installer Shortcuts

Ok so you’ve downloaded and installed the SCICHART Trial. Great! Now what? After the installer completes you should have the following icons on your desktop:

Use these Icons after Installing SCICHART

Also examples, source code and shortcuts will have installed into your Start Menu:

SciChart Resources under the start menu

02 Running the Examples Suite

Double click on the WPF Examples shortcut to run the demo suite, you should see the demo start and maximise:

SciChart Examples suite contains demos with source code snippets

Examples are grouped into Categories by feature or action you might want to implement:

  • For really simple single-series examples, choose an example from “Create a Basic Chart”
  • For simple multi-series examples, choose “Create MultiSeries Chart”
  • For real-time charts and performance demos, choose “Create Real-Time Charts”
  • For linear/logarithmic axis, or multi axis behaviour, choose “Modify Axis Behavior”
  • For zooming, panning, scaling operations choose “Zoom and Pan a Chart”
  • For stunning styled application demos choose “See Featured App”

NOTE: The examples suite is identical when launching the Silverlight version

Scrolling down the page there are more example groups

Scroll down the page to view more examples

  • For Annotations, Data-point Markers choose “Annotate a Chart”
  • For cursors, data-point hit-testing and series-selection choose “Inspect Data-Points”
  • For Theming and Custom styling choose “Style a Chart”
  • For MVVM specific examples choose “See MVVM Examples”

Selecting an Example

Click on the Oscilloscope Example under “See Featured Application”. You should see something like this:

Here you can:

  • Navigate between examples
  • Submit support requests and feedback
  • Search for examples by keyword
  • Switch between Source Code and Example View
  • Interact with the current example

Source Code View

By switching to source code view you can see the Xaml and C# code (all necessary files) to recreate each individual example.

The corresponding folders where examples source is installed are
WPF
C:\Program Files (x86)\ABT Software Services Ltd\SciChart\Examples\Abt.Controls.SciChart.Wpf.Example\Examples\IWantTo\
Silverlight
C:\Program Files (x86)\ABT Software Services Ltd\SciChart\Examples\Abt.Controls.SciChart.SL.Example\Examples\IWantTo\

03 Locating the Example Source Files in Visual Studio

Click on the “SCICHART WPF Examples Source” shortcut on your desktop. This will open the examples suite solution in Visual Studio 2010.

NOTE: By default, the SciChart examples are installed to your program files directory. As a result, you will need to start Visual Studio as Administrator, or move the SciChart installation to another directory.

Source code files are organised under /Examples/IWantTo/ then by Category Name. The category matches the category in the demo.
Here you may make changes to the source, recompile or paste snippets into your own app to help you get started.

04 Tutorials to Help Create your First SCICHART Application

For an overview of how create your first application, please see the following online articles. These are also available in the installation directory at %Install Dir%/SciChart/Tutorials/

Resource Where
Licensing SciChart www.scichart.com/licensing-scichart/
Building a Simple Line Chart www.scichart.com/building-a-simple-line-chart/
Interacting with the Chart via ChartModifiers www.scichart.com/interacting-with-the-chart-via-chartmodifiers/
Real-time User Feedback with the Rollover Modifier www.scichart.com/real-time-user-feedback-with-the-rollover-modifier/
Using the API Documentation www.scichart.com/coming-soon-api-documentation/
Creating a Real-Time Chart www.scichart.com/creating-a-real-time-chart/
Adding UIElement Annotations (using v1.3 API) www.scichart.com/extending-scichart-with-text-annotations-and-screenshots/
Creating a Custom Chart Modifier – Intepolation Cursor www.scichart.com/interpolating-data-points-with-a-custom-cursor-modifier/
Annotations – Adding Trade Markers to a Chart http://www.scichart.com/annotations-adding-trade-markers-to-a-chart/
How to Add and Remove Series Dynamically http://www.scichart.com/how-to-add-and-remove-chart-series-dynamically/
Annotations Are Easy! An overview of v1.5 Annotations Feature http://www.scichart.com/annotations-are-easy/
Synchronizing Mouse Events across Charts http://www.scichart.com/synchronizing-chartmodifier-mouse-events-across-charts/
Databinding Annotations with MVVM http://www.scichart.com/databinding-annotations-with-mvvm/
Screenshots, XPS Printing, X-Axis Text Labels http://www.scichart.com/screenshots-xps-printing-x-axis-text-labels/

 

05 – Where to get Help

We hope you get the best from SciChart. We have prepared the following resources to help you to do that:

Resource Where
Community Forums www.scichart.com/forums
Examples Suite with Source Code Examples Viewable online at www.scichart.com/demo Available under the Start Menu when you install the SciChart Trial
Tutorials and Blog Posts Viewable online at www.scichart.com/tutorials
Class Hierarchy Documentation Available under the Start Menu when you install the SciChart Trial
Email Support Contact us anytime at www.scichart.com/contact-us, we’d love to hear from you!

06 – SciChart v1.5 Features

If you’re new to SciChart and want a quick walk through of the features in v1.5, please take a look at the videos Introduction to SciChart and SciChart v1.5 Launch – New Features.

Thanks and enjoy!
[SciChart HQ]

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