Category: WPF

I want to implement something like, if a certain analysis value/custom logic is true for one of the values in the loop, –> set this bar color to ‘orange’ as an example, how can i do this?

   // Create a dataset of type x=DateTime, y=Double
  var dataSeries = new OhlcDataSeries<DateTime, double>();

   // Prices are in the format Time, Open, High, Low, Close (all IList)
  var prices = smallerList;

    // Append data to series. SciChart automatically redraws
    for (var i = 0; i < prices.Count(); i++)
   {

 // Convert TIME to a 4-digit string (e.g., 5 becomes "0005", 15 becomes "0015")
 string timeString = prices[i].Value.TIME.ToString("D4");

 // Parse the TIME field
 int hour = int.Parse(timeString.Substring(0, 2));
 int minute = int.Parse(timeString.Substring(2, 2));

 // Create the DateTime object
 DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(prices[i].Value.YEAR, prices[i].Value.MONTH, prices[i].Value.DAY,      hour, minute, 0);
 Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
 {
     //here we append values in 'dataSeries', how do i do something like, 'bool condition = 
// returnCustomLogic('dataValues') --> outputs true, if true --> set this bar color to orange

     // Update the UI element on the UI thread
     dataSeries.Append(
    dateTime,
    (double)prices[i].Value.OPEN,
    (double)prices[i].Value.HIGH,
    (double)prices[i].Value.LOW,
    (double)prices[i].Value.CLOSE);

   });


   }
     Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
     {
 StockChart.RenderableSeries[0].DataSeries = dataSeries;

 // Zoom Extents - necessary as we have AutoRange=False
 StockChart.ZoomExtents();
   });

The SciChart.Core.ExportType.Xps value was deprecated in a recent SciChart release. Are there plans to change this to another vector format? Or will this feature no longer be available?

Thanks!

Hi, I have a problem with the Y-axis mouse scroll sensitivity regarding values, if you take a look here, you can see that it will take a lot of separate scrolls to reach the desired Y-axis value
due to a low level of sensitivity
how can I solve this problem

my code

“`

        <s:SciChartSurface x:Name="scs" 
                           RenderableSeries="{s:SeriesBinding Series}" 
                           ViewportManager="{Binding ViewportManager}"
                           BorderThickness="2,2,2,0"
                           s:VisualXcceleratorEngine.EnableImpossibleMode="True"
                           LeftAxesPanelTemplate="{StaticResource YAxesPanel}"
                           Grid.Row="0"   
                           MouseDoubleClick="OnChartMouseDown">


            <s:SciChartSurface.XAxes>
                <!-- Hidden Axis that tracks the data -->
                <s:NumericAxis AutoRange="Always"
                               DrawMinorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMinorTicks="False"
                               DrawMajorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMajorTicks="False"
                               Visibility="Collapsed"
                                />
                <!--Hidden Axis that track the annotations' locations (All the added annotations have the same XAxis Id-->
                <s:NumericAxis Name="SharedXAxisCommon"  
                                AutoRange="Never"
                                VisibleRangeLimit="0,10"
                                Height="1"
                                Visibility="Hidden"  
                                Id="CommonID_X"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.XAxes>

            <s:SciChartSurface.YAxes >
                <s:NumericAxis AutoRange="Never"
                               AutoTicks="True"
                               DrawMinorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMinorTicks="False"
                               DrawMajorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMajorTicks="True"
                               VisibleRange="0,8128000"
                               Visibility="Collapsed"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.YAxes>
            <s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>
                <s1:ModifierGroup>
                    <s1:YAxisDragModifier/>
                    <s:SeriesSelectionModifier >
                        <s:SeriesSelectionModifier.SelectedSeriesStyle>
                            <Style TargetType="s:BaseRenderableSeries">
                            </Style>
                        </s:SeriesSelectionModifier.SelectedSeriesStyle>
                    </s:SeriesSelectionModifier>
                </s1:ModifierGroup>
            </s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>

        </s:SciChartSurface>
        <Grid>
            <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <RowDefinition Height="0.3*"/>
                <RowDefinition Height="2*"/>
            </Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <TextBlock Grid.Row="1" x:Name="InportValueTextBlock" Text="{Binding InportValue}" Margin="20,0,0,0" FontSize="14"/>
        </Grid>
    </Grid>

“`

Hi, I have problem with the Y axis values, if you take a look here,

the numbers are not intuitive is there a way to fix it?

I tried to set the AutoTicks=”True” but it did nothing

the code

“`

<UserControl.Resources>
    <BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="b2vc"/>
    <local:BoolToAxisAutoRangeConverter x:Key="AutoRangeConverter" />
    <local:StarsConverter x:Key="conv"/>
    <ItemsPanelTemplate x:Key="YAxesPanel" >
        <Grid local:GridHelpers.RowCount="{Binding RowsCount}"
              local:GridHelpers.StarRows="{Binding RowsCount, Converter={StaticResource conv}, Mode=OneWay}"
              local:GridHelpers.ColumnCount="1"

              >
        </Grid>
    </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    <Style x:Key="MinorTickLineStyle" TargetType="Line">
        <Setter Property="Stroke" Value="White"/>
    </Style>

</UserControl.Resources>



<Grid x:Name="MainGrid">
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

    <!-- Toolbar -->
    <Border Style="{DynamicResource OriginalBorderBright}" BorderThickness="0" Canvas.ZIndex="9999" Visibility="Collapsed">
        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
            <RadioButton x:Name="RunBtn" Command="{Binding RunCommand}" IsChecked="True" Visibility="Hidden"/>
            <RadioButton x:Name="PauseBtn" Visibility="Hidden"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </Border>

    <!-- Chart Surface -->
    <Grid Grid.Column="1" >

        <s:SciChartSurface x:Name="scs" 
                           RenderableSeries="{s:SeriesBinding Series}" 
                           ViewportManager="{Binding ViewportManager}"
                           BorderThickness="2,2,2,0"
                           s:VisualXcceleratorEngine.EnableImpossibleMode="True"
                           LeftAxesPanelTemplate="{StaticResource YAxesPanel}"
                           Grid.Row="0"   
                           MouseDoubleClick="OnChartMouseDown">


            <s:SciChartSurface.XAxes>
                <!-- Hidden Axis that tracks the data -->
                <s:NumericAxis AutoRange="Always"
                               DrawMinorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMinorTicks="False"
                               DrawMajorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMajorTicks="False"
                               Visibility="Collapsed"
                                />
                <!--Hidden Axis that track the annotations' locations (All the added annotations have the same XAxis Id-->
                <s:NumericAxis Name="SharedXAxisCommon"  
                                AutoRange="Never"
                                VisibleRangeLimit="0,10"
                                Height="1"
                                Visibility="Hidden"  
                                Id="CommonID_X"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.XAxes>

            <s:SciChartSurface.YAxes >
                <s:NumericAxis AutoRange="Never"
                               AutoTicks="True"
                               DrawMinorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMinorTicks="False"
                               DrawMajorGridLines="False"
                               DrawMajorTicks="True"
                               VisibleRange="0,8128000"
                               Visibility="Collapsed"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.YAxes>
            <s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>
                <s1:ModifierGroup>
                    <s1:YAxisDragModifier/>
                    <s:SeriesSelectionModifier >
                        <s:SeriesSelectionModifier.SelectedSeriesStyle>
                            <Style TargetType="s:BaseRenderableSeries">
                            </Style>
                        </s:SeriesSelectionModifier.SelectedSeriesStyle>
                    </s:SeriesSelectionModifier>
                </s1:ModifierGroup>
            </s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>

        </s:SciChartSurface>
        <Grid>
            <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <RowDefinition Height="0.3*"/>
                <RowDefinition Height="2*"/>
            </Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <TextBlock Grid.Row="1" x:Name="InportValueTextBlock" Text="{Binding InportValue}" Margin="20,0,0,0" FontSize="14"/>
        </Grid>
    </Grid>


    <Border Grid.Column="1" Style="{DynamicResource OriginalBorderBright}" Visibility="{Binding IsLoading, Mode=OneWay, Converter={StaticResource b2vc}}">
        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
            <ProgressBar Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0"  HorizontalAlignment="Center" IsIndeterminate="True" Height="10" Width="{Binding ActualWidth, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=Test}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="Test" Text="{Binding LoadingMessage, Mode=OneWay}" FontSize="16" Foreground="{DynamicResource ControlDefaultForeground}" Margin="0,10" TextAlignment="Center" Opacity="0.7"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </Border>
</Grid>

“`

Good day,

we are using the VerticalSliceModifier for sorted data and it works very good.

<local:VerticalSliceModifierExt x:Name="SliceModifier">
<s:VerticalSliceModifier.VerticalLines>
    <chartModifier:SnappyVerticalLine x:Name="VerticalLine"
                          ShowLabel="False"
                          X1="0"
                          Y1="0"
                          CoordinateMode="Absolute"
                          IsEditable="True">
    </chartModifier:SnappyVerticalLine>
</s:VerticalSliceModifier.VerticalLines>

Please see the image “Example Vertical Slice Modifier”.

The challange is to have something similar for unsorted data.

One of the issues are multiple intersections. Please see the image “Multiple Intersections” where i would like be able to select what intersections shall be highlighted.

The next challange is the usage of multiple series and synchronization based on a different property (t for time). Please see “Multiple Series” image.

We already have IPointMetadata with X,Y and t to be able to find the data point to highlight.

My question: Is there already some modifier chat can help with this requirements or what would be a clean solution if we need to develop a custom modifier.

Thank you in advance
Paul

Hello.

I’m facing an issue where a previous team member didn’t deactivate licenses on used devices. The device has now been returned, and deactivation is currently not possible. I need to reuse a project used SciChart. Is there a way to reset the list of all previously activated devices?

Thank you.

I found two other related questions on this forum one being 11 years ago and the other dated 8 years but my recent trial installation encountered the exact same error and I have no way to start testing the charting library in my code.

I followed this tutorial:
https://www.scichart.com/documentation/win/current/webframe.html#Tutorial%2002b%20-%20Creating%20a%20SciChartSurface%20with%20MVVM.html

And I get this this error:
The tag ‘SciChartSurface’ does not exist in XML namespace ‘http://schemas.abtsoftware.co.uk/scichart’

I tried installing through the MSI & Licensing Wizard and I also reinstall the package through NuGet package manager console, and restarting Visual Studio but problem remains.

The SciChart WPF library version: 8.2.0.27935
Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) configured to be x86. Target framework 4.8.

This is very disappointing

I’m new to SciChart and have been following the tutorial provided by SciChart (SciChart WPF 2D Charts > Tutorials > MVVM). Took me hours to make it through the first step in Tutorial 02b – Creating a SciChartSurface with MVVM due to namespace typo in the tutorial, and again I’m now stuck at the very second step.

I cannot replicate the result in Tutorial 03b – Adding Series to a Chart with MVVM. No error found in the output, no binding error whatsoever, but the line is not visible. Also see the attached image comparing what it should look like in the tutorial and what mine looks like.

The project is a direct copy and paste from the tutorial except for the names. I have also cross checked against the code in GitHub. I’ve attached the project as a zip with the bin and obj folders removed.

I know there was a bit of mention in the 2021 end of year announcement about porting code over to C++ which would enable there to be future builds of SciChart for WinUI or other platforms… I’m just curious if there is any timeline / estimated timeframe that scichart would have WinUI 3 charts?

Hi guys,

I’ve been trying to select data points in my heat map for the whole without success. I’ve read, re-read and re-re-read the documentation, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Here’s the XAML.

...

<s:SciChartSurface.RenderableSeries>
    <s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm
        x:Name="heatmapSeries" 
        Opacity="0.9" 
        DataSeries="{Binding UniformHeatmapDataSeries}"
        s:DataPointSelectionModifier.IncludeSeries="True" >

        <s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.ColorMap>
            <s:HeatmapColorPalette Maximum="60" Minimum="6">
                <s:HeatmapColorPalette.GradientStops>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="Transparent"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0.1" Color="DarkBlue"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0.2" Color="CornflowerBlue"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0.4" Color="DarkGreen"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0.6" Color="Chartreuse"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="0.8" Color="Yellow"/>
                    <GradientStop Offset="1" Color="Red"/>
                </s:HeatmapColorPalette.GradientStops>
            </s:HeatmapColorPalette>
        </s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.ColorMap>

        <s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.PointMarker>
            <s:XPointMarker Fill="Pink" Width="5" Height="5"/>
        </s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.PointMarker>

        <s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.SelectedPointMarker>
            <s:TrianglePointMarker Fill="White" Width="12" Height="12"/>
        </s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm.SelectedPointMarker>

    </s:FastUniformHeatmapRenderableSeriesForMvvm>

    ...

</s:SciChartSurface.RenderableSeries>
...

Here’s the MVVM code.

...
class SelectedPointMetadata : IPointMetadata
{
    public bool IsSelected { get; set; }

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
}
...

double[,] heatMap = new double[heatMapHeight + glowRadius * 2, heatMapWidth + glowRadius * 2];
double[,] glowMatrix = this.getGlowEffectMatrix(glowRadius);

SelectedPointMetadata[,] selectablePoints = new SelectedPointMetadata[heatMapHeight + glowRadius * 2, heatMapWidth + glowRadius * 2];

for (int i = 0; i < spectrogram.SpectrogramAtoms.Count; i++) {
    var atom = spectrogram.SpectrogramAtoms[i];
    int x = Math.Min((int)(atom.Frequency.Hertz / frequencyStep) + glowRadius, heatMapHeight - 1);
    int y = Math.Min((int)(atom.Time.Seconds / xStep) + glowRadius, heatMapWidth - 1);
    this.applyEffectMatrix(x, y, atom.SNR, ref heatMap, ref glowMatrix, glowRadius);

}

var xBound = heatMap.GetLength(0);
var yBound = heatMap.GetLength(1);

Random rnd = new Random();

for (var i = 0; i < xBound; i++)
{
    for (var j = 0; j < yBound; j++)
    {
        var x = rnd.Next(1, 10);

        selectablePoints[i, j] = new SelectedPointMetadata() { IsSelected = false };

        if (x == 5)
        {
            selectablePoints[i, j].IsSelected = true;
        }

    }
}

this.UniformHeatmapDataSeries = new UniformHeatmapDataSeries<double, double, double>(
    heatMap,
    (-xStep * glowRadius),
    xStep,
    (-frequencyStep * glowRadius),
    frequencyStep,
    selectablePoints
    );

...

What am I missing?

My goal: Cumulate several values over a time span and show them as stacked bars, where the bars should be located exactly over the time span.

Current situation: Bars are always centered around the x value of the datapoint.

Question: How can bars be shifted to the left? In the attached picture the blue bars represent the current situation, the yellow bars are drawn by offseting the x values by -0.5s. The latter is what I wanted to achieve. Is there an easier approach I havn’t seen so far?

Thanks for your support!

Hello.
I’m just started to use SciChart and I have a question. How I can mirror XAxis in order to values will be increased from right to left. It is not negative scale but this view is more familiar for users (now I remake the old application). P.S. And be the best if additionally you show me how to make static XAxis with chosen range. I see the example in demo’s “Create Realtime Charts” section (my chart will be real-time too), but my application created via MVVM and I think this example not fully applicable to my case (but I fink after some investigation I will can remake example, but if you help me it be easier).

I am dynamically adding and removing items from an observablecollection of Irenderable series in my viewmodel, and binding it to the renderableseries on the chart surface. However, when I add and remove items that I want to be ordered, and are appropriately ordered in the collection, they are not ordered on the legend.

Is there a way to reorder the series in the legend (MVVM solution would be great)?

You can replicate the issue (or the symptom), by toggling the visibilty of the series in the below example by clicking the checkbox within the legend and then switching the getlegenddatafrom to visible series, and then switch back. (no longer in ABC order).

https://www.scichart.com/Abt.Controls.SciChart.SL.ExampleTestPage.html#/Abt.Controls.SciChart.Example;component/Examples/IWantTo/CreateMultiseriesChart/MultipleLinesView.xaml

Thanks,
Jason

hello.
I added an OverView and scrollbar below the main chart, referring to the CustomOverviewView example.
Graph and scroll functions work without problems.
I want to show the main chart annotations in the OverView.
How can I solve my problem?
have a good day!

Axis in ChartControl sets the interval.
XAxis

Hello,

i’m trying to build a chart using a Stripe Data series, on the X axis i have a DatetimeAxis while on Y axis i have a Numeric.

I have an observable collection of IRenderableSeriesViewModel, and when i try to add a StripeRenderableSeriesViewModel if the dataseries contains many elements (>2000) it logs this exception below:

Exception thrown: ‘System.InvalidCastException’ in System.Private.CoreLib.dll
SciChartSurface didn’t render, because an exception was thrown:
Message: Invalid cast from ‘Double’ to ‘DateTime’.
Stack Trace: at System.Double.System.IConvertible.ToDateTime(IFormatProvider provider)
at System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType, IFormatProvider provider)
at SciChart.Charting.Model.DataSeries.StripeDataSeries2.rwx(ResamplingParams gib, StripePointSeries gic)
at SciChart.Charting.Model.DataSeries.StripeDataSeries2.ToPointSeries(ResamplingParams resamplingParams, ResamplingMode resamplingMode, IPointResamplerFactory factory, IPointSeries lastPointSeries)
at dih.lay(AxisCollection gg, IRenderableSeries gh, RenderPassInfo gi, IPointResamplerFactory gj, Boolean gk, IDataSeries& gl, IndexRange& gm, IPointSeries& gn, Int32& go)
at dih.lax(ISciChartSurface gd, Size ge, Boolean gf)
at dih.RenderLoop(IRenderContext2D renderContext)
at SciChart.Charting.Visuals.SciChartSurface.DoDrawingLoop()
Exception thrown: ‘System.Threading.SynchronizationLockException’ in SciChart.Drawing.dll
SciChartSurface didn’t render, because an exception was thrown:
Message: Object synchronization method was called from an unsynchronized block of code.
Stack Trace: at System.Threading.Monitor.Exit(Object obj)
at irv.hds(jbq r, SCRTRenderContext s)
at jbv.Dispose()
at SciChart.Charting.Visuals.SciChartSurface.DoDrawingLoop()

Binding and data i’m pretty sure are ok since with fewer data it works fine

EDIT: i was able to reproduce the issue in the wpf sample project (repo), just replace GanttChartViewModel.cs with the sample one i have attached here and it can be reproduced by navigating to the Gantt chart example

Hi,

I would like to achieve dynamic loading finely sampled data from db when user zooms in.

For example I would like to display 1 month of data sampled by day (one sample per each day). As user zooms in to day-level, I would like to load data only for visible day but sampled in finer resolution (for example one sample per minute). User could zoom in further to seconds or milliseconds details.

I could probable detect displayed time range and load data with corresponding sampling and switch the dataset bound to the control.

But after that the control will be bound only to visible portion of time interval and user will not be able to zoom out back to coarser level of detail (ie whole month).

Is there a way how to do this?

Thanks,
Petr

Hi,

i have a SciChartSurface with DateTimeAxis as xAxis and a NumericAxis as yAxis.
The fifo capacity is 500 points.

Now what i want to archieve is that when i zoom in that the visible range updates in a matter that its moving with the fifo and not to be frozen and at some point in time see how the data points are discarded.
I already implemented a CustomRubberBandZoomModifier which disables autoranging on Zoom and enables it after Zoom to Extents.

How could i archieve this like shown in the attached image?

Thank you already in advance.

Hi,

I want to change the grid distance between the two slices dynamically in both X , Y and Z direction. But whatever the value I set for StepZ and StepX, nothing changes in the output. I still see the same graph.

Please can you suggest if there is any way to achieve this.

I am attaching the code of waterfall example here.

Hi,
I am writing to request some helps about VisibleRange.

I am drawing simple line graphs using NumericAxis and XyDataSeries<long,double>.
I should control axis range so I used XVisibieRange with Int64Range.
But I have an error that It cannot be applied.

How can I control VisibleRange with long type data??

I have two SciChartSurfaces

One is a HeatMap (x:Name=”MainChartSurface”), the other a line graph.
I have set it up so that when a vertical cursor is moved the smaller line graph shows a ‘cross-section’ of the heatmap.

The attached image shows the right hand end of the heatmap and the smaller line graph.

The X-axis of the line graph is set to Alignment=Right and this axis has the same range as the y-axis of the heat map – set in xml as:

 MajorDelta="{Binding Source={x:Reference Name=MainChartSurface}, Path=YAxis.MajorDelta, Mode=TwoWay}"
 MinorDelta="{Binding Source={x:Reference Name=MainChartSurface}, Path=YAxis.MinorDelta, Mode=TwoWay}"
 AutoTicks="False"
 VisibleRange="{Binding Source={x:Reference Name=MainChartSurface}, Path=YAxis.VisibleRange, Mode=TwoWay}"

this all works, so if the main graph is zoomed, the 2D line graph Y-axis follows the main graph.

The Y-axis of the line graph has Alignment=Bottom, and it shows the z-values for all y-values at the location vertical cursor (a RolloverModifier) on the main graph.

The problem I have is that the space taken by the axis at the bottom of the charts is different, so the chart areas are different. Look carefully at the attached image and see the bottom axes do not align.

How can I link the space taken to force the bottom axes to stay in alignment?

Thanks
Andrew Milford

Hello,

Normally, if I have a ScichartSurface with a X- and Y-Axis, were both axis AutoRange- properties are set to Always, the surface displays the entire data by adjusting the Visible ranges of the axis after new data has been appended.

This also works if there are multiple Data-Series on the ScichartSurface.

In my case, I have two FastLineRenderableSeries on my Surface. Each of them receiving new data via the Append-function while the x- and y-axis are continuously adjusted automatically to display all the datapoints of both Datasets.

So far so good…

But what would I have to do if I wanted one of the two Datasets to be ignored by the Autorange properties of the x- and y-Axis?

I have already tried to set the X- and YAxisID of one dataset to null, hoping I could make both axis ignore this Dataset while they are adjusting their Visible ranges. However, this only led to error messages.

I could also try to write my own ViewPortManagers and overwrite the OnCalculateNewXRange and OnCalculateNewYRange funvtions, but that seems a little bit excessive.

Is there an easy way to achieve the desired behavior?

Thanks.

We have lots of use cases where livedata is appended to exisiting series. The data has gone through algorithms, is not time-based and so is unsorted. Better said, it’s scientific data, for e.g. Bode-, Nyquist diagrams
Can we make the SeriesValueModifier style so it places the latest value also at the x-position ? Currently we have CustomAnnotations for this, which seems a clumsy work-around.

Am trying to get the same look and feel of the cursor modifier on both the charts.

• am not able to get the tool tip to show on the other side.
• am not able to get the get horizontal lines.

Hello! This might be a silly question, but if I were to get a new MacBook running the M1-series processor, and ran Windows ARM preview in Parallels, do I have any chance of getting SciChart to work? I can see here that Visual Studio ARM will compile x86 and x64, but will SciChart work? I have no way to test this so hopefully someone else has!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/visual-studio-on-arm-devices?view=vs-2022

In this thread

running-in-linux

it mentions

SciChart (as of July 2023) currently targets the following platforms
WPF, with c# .net or netCore or .NET 6/7

I cannot find libraries for .NET7!
When I try to use netcoreapp3.1 libraries or net452 libraries I get a runtime error that it is unable to open the dll. Or is something else going wrong? I can see the relevant dll’s are copied to the output folder.

Hi SciChart,

We are experiencing a SciChart XPS export issue.

I am using a FlowDocumentPageViewer with a FlowDocument containing SciChart graphs. My goal is to export all pages of the FlowDocument to an XPS file using the XamlRenderSurface to save in vector graphics. However, I’m facing an issue where only the currently selected page exports correctly, while the other pages display empty graphs.

By default, we employ the VisualXcceleratorRenderSurface for all SciChart render surfaces. Before exporting, I programmatically switch them to XamlRenderSurface to save in vector graphics. This approach works well when all the graphs have been rendered on-screen at least once with the new surface type before exporting. However, if a graph hasn’t been rendered on-screen before exporting, it appears empty, and only the graphs from the selected page export correctly. You can find code snippets below.

XAML code:

<s:SciChartSurface
    x:Name="PART_Surface"
    ...
    RenderSurface="{TemplateBinding RenderType, Converter={StaticResource RenderTypeConverter}}"
    ...

Converter:

public class RenderTypeConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        // Set render settings
        return (RenderType)value switch
        {
            RenderType.DirectX => new VisualXcceleratorRenderSurface(),
            RenderType.HighQuality => new HighQualityRenderSurface(),
            RenderType.HighSpeed => new HighSpeedRenderSurface(),
            RenderType.Vector => new XamlRenderSurface(),
            _ => new HighSpeedRenderSurface(),
        };
    }
    ...
}

Export:

private void ExportVector(string fullPath)
{
    // Sets the RenderType to Vector for all surfaces
    // This invokes RenderTypeConverter to set the RenderSurface to XamlRenderSurface
    // Since they are bound in the XAML code
    SetAxesSurfacesRenderToVector();

    XPS_Export_AllPagesOfFlowDocument(fullPath);

    // DirectX is always the default for all surfaces that we use
    ResetAxesSurfacesToDirectX();
}
private void XPS_Export_AllPagesOfFlowDocument(string fullPath)
{
    using (var package = Package.Open(fullPath, FileMode.Create))
    {
        using (var xpsDocument = new XpsDocument(package, CompressionOption.Maximum))
        {
            var xpsSerializationManager = new XpsSerializationManager(new XpsPackagingPolicy(xpsDocument), false);
            var documentPaginator = ((IDocumentPaginatorSource)FlowDocument)?.DocumentPaginator;
            xpsSerializationManager.SaveAsXaml(documentPaginator);

            xpsDocument.Close();
        }
    }
}

The binding and the converter works for all offscreen elements, yet the they won’t take effect until rendered on screen at least once.
I have to select each page manually, after setting all graphs to use XamlRenderSurface, so each would be rendered on screen at least once before the export.

My question is: How can I export XamlRenderSurfaces that are off-screen and haven’t been rendered on-screen before the export process?

You can find an image below showcasing the problem.

Thank you and looking forward to your reply!

Best Regards,
Kaloyan Krastev