Tag: Annotation

We’re allowing our users to place down annotations on the chart with an annotation creation modifier. One of these annotations is a Text annotation.

We then allow users to save these annotations into our own proprietary file format and load them back in with the chart data. To do this we iterate through the AnnotationCollection of the chart and parse the SciChart annotations to data we save to our files.

To save the content of the text for the TextAnnotation we read the TextAnnotation.Text property. However, we’ve noticed that this property is not set until the annotation has lost focus (we click away from the annotation somewhere else on the chart). If we save the annotation before we click away from it, we do not get the current text from the TextAnnotation.Text property.

The process to reproduce this is:
1. Place down a TextAnnotation.
2. Edit the TextAnnotation content. Do not click away from the text so to annotation remains in “Editing” mode
3. Save the data.
4. As we’re saving we read the TextAnnotation.Text property to save to our file. However, the TextAnnotation.Text property returns a blank string because its still being edited.

Is there a way from within our code that we can finish the editing of the text annotation, so that when we get the TextAnnotation.Text property it is the current text the user typed in? Or is there a way to get the current text within the TextAnnotation without finishing the editing or changing the focus?

Hi, Support team.

I’m using MVVM pattern and trying to implement multi-chart which can insert Box Annotations at the same time into each chart .
So I’m testing in SciChart Example [“DigitalAnalyzerPerformanceDemo”] to know how to implement this.

But what i only got is just looping through and create annotation for each ChannelViewModels.

In the Demo, the VisibleRange ‘XRange’ is shared to all the ChannelViewModels by binding TwoWay-mode in ParentViewModel without looping for each ChildViewModels.
Like this, I wonder is there ways to apply BoxAnnotation all the ChannelViewModel at the same time by binding in ParentViewModel.

    <!-- BottomAxis -->
        <s:SciChartSurface Grid.Column="1">
            <s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
                <s:NumericAxis Height="30"
                               AxisAlignment="Bottom"
                               VisibleRange="{Binding XRange, Mode=TwoWay}"                 
                               LabelProvider="{StaticResource TimeLabelProvider}"
                               MajorTickLineStyle="{StaticResource TimeAxisMajorTickLineStyle}"
                               MinorTickLineStyle="{StaticResource TimeAxisMinorTickLineStyle}"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
            <s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>
                <s:NumericAxis Visibility="Collapsed"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>
        </s:SciChartSurface>
    </Grid>

    <!--  Create an X Axis with GrowBy  -->
     <s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
           <s:NumericAxis Style="{StaticResource HiddenAxisStyle}"
                    VisibleRangeLimitMode="Min"
                    VisibleRangeLimit="0,0"
                    VisibleRange="{Binding DataContext.XRange, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ItemsControl, AncestorLevel=2}}"/>
     </s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>

I tried to bind annotation in ParentViewModel like XRange Binding method, But it doesn’t work.

This is View.xaml.

<Grid Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="True" IsEnabled="{Binding IsLoading, Converter={StaticResource InvertBooleanConverter}}">


    <!-- BottomAxis -->
        <s:SciChartSurface Grid.Column="1">
            <s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
                <s:NumericAxis Height="30"
                               AxisAlignment="Bottom"
                               VisibleRange="{Binding XRange, Mode=TwoWay}"                 
                               LabelProvider="{StaticResource TimeLabelProvider}"
                               MajorTickLineStyle="{StaticResource TimeAxisMajorTickLineStyle}"
                               MinorTickLineStyle="{StaticResource TimeAxisMinorTickLineStyle}"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
            <s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>
                <s:NumericAxis Visibility="Collapsed"/>
            </s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>
        </s:SciChartSurface>
    </Grid>

    <!-- Channels -->
        <ScrollViewer Background="#1C1C1E"
                      VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
                      HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled">

            <b:Interaction.Behaviors>
                <common:DigitalAnalyzerScrollBehavior ChannelHeightDelta="10" ChangeChannelHeightCommand="{Binding ChangeChannelHeightCommand}"/>
            </b:Interaction.Behaviors>

            <ItemsControl x:Name="chartItemsControl" ItemsSource="{Binding ChannelViewModels}">

                <b:Interaction.Behaviors>
                    <common:FocusedChannelScrollBehavior ScrollToFocusedChannel="False"/>
                </b:Interaction.Behaviors>

                <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:ChannelViewModel}">
                        <Grid Background="#2D2C32" Height="{Binding ChannelHeight, Mode=OneWay}" Focusable="False" UseLayoutRounding="False" >
                            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                <ColumnDefinition SharedSizeGroup="ChannelNames" />
                                <ColumnDefinition />
                            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

                            <Border BorderThickness="0,0,0,1" BorderBrush="#1C1C1E">
                                <DockPanel>
                                    <Border DockPanel.Dock="Left"     
                                            Background="{Binding ChannelColor, Mode=OneWay}" 
                                            Width="5"/>

                                    <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Left"
                                               Margin="10,5"
                                               VerticalAlignment="Center"
                                               Foreground="White"
                                               Text="{Binding ChannelName}"/>
                                </DockPanel>
                            </Border>

                            <s:SciChartSurface x:Name="channelSurface" Grid.Column="1"
                                               RenderableSeries="{Binding RenderableSeries}"
                                               Annotations="{s:AnnotationsBinding  DataContext.Annotations, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ItemsControl, AncestorLevel=2} }">

                                <!--  Create an X Axis with GrowBy  -->
                                <s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
                                    <s:NumericAxis Style="{StaticResource HiddenAxisStyle}"
                                                   VisibleRangeLimitMode="Min"
                                                   VisibleRangeLimit="0,0"
                                                   VisibleRange="{Binding DataContext.XRange, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ItemsControl, AncestorLevel=2}}"/>
                                </s:SciChartSurface.XAxis>

                                <!--  Create a Y Axis with GrowBy. Optional bands give a cool look and feel for minimal performance impact  -->
                                <s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>
                                    <s:NumericAxis Style="{StaticResource HiddenAxisStyle}"
                                                   VisibleRange="{Binding YRange, Mode=OneWay}"/>
                                </s:SciChartSurface.YAxis>

                                <s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>
                                    <s:ModifierGroup s:MouseManager.MouseEventGroup="ChannelModifierGroup">
                                        <s:RubberBandXyZoomModifier IsAnimated="False" IsXAxisOnly="True" ZoomExtentsY="False" ReceiveHandledEvents="True" IsEnabled="{Binding IsChecked, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=IsZoomEnabled}"/>
                                        <s:ZoomPanModifier ZoomExtentsY="False" XyDirection="XDirection" IsEnabled="{Binding IsChecked, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=IsPanEnabled}"/>
                                        <s:ZoomExtentsModifier XyDirection="XDirection" IsAnimated="False" />
                                        <s:MouseWheelZoomModifier XyDirection="XDirection" />
                                    </s:ModifierGroup>
                                </s:SciChartSurface.ChartModifier>
                            </s:SciChartSurface>

                            <Border Grid.Column="1"
                                    BorderThickness="0,0,0,1"
                                    BorderBrush="#2D2C32"
                                    VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                        </Grid>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
            </ItemsControl>
        </ScrollViewer>
    </Border>


</Grid>

This is ViewModel.cs

public class DigitalAnalyzerExampleViewModel : BaseViewModel
{
    private bool _isLoading;
    private DoubleRange _xRange;

    public DigitalAnalyzerExampleViewModel()
    {
        ChannelViewModels = new ObservableCollection<ChannelViewModel>();
        Annotations = new ObservableCollection<IAnnotationViewModel>();
        Annotations.Add(new BoxAnnotationViewModel() { X1 = 0, X2 = 1000, Y1 = 0, Y2 = 1 }); //I want to implement sharing annotation like this.

        SelectedChannelType = "Digital";
        SelectedChannelCount = 32;
        SelectedPointCount = 1000000;
        SelectedResamplingPrecision =ResamplingPrecision.Default;
        SelectedStrokeThickness = 1;

        ChangeChannelHeightCommand = new ActionCommand<object>((d) =>
        {
            var delta = (double)d;
            foreach (var channelViewModel in ChannelViewModels)
            {
                channelViewModel.SetChannelHeightDelta(delta);
            }
        });

        AddChannelCommand = new ActionCommand(async () =>
        {
            IsLoading = true;

            var isDigital = SelectedChannelType == "Digital";
            await AddChannels(isDigital ? 1 : 0, isDigital ? 0 : 1);

            IsLoading = false;
        });

        LoadChannelsCommand = new ActionCommand(async () =>
        {
            IsLoading = true;

            // Clear ViewModels
            foreach (var channelVm in ChannelViewModels)
            {
                channelVm.Clear();
            }
            ChannelViewModels.Clear();
            XRange = null;

            // Create a bunch of Digital channels
            await AddChannels(SelectedChannelCount, 0);

            XRange = new DoubleRange(0, SelectedPointCount);
            IsLoading = false;
        });

        LoadChannelsCommand.Execute(null);
    }


    public ObservableCollection<ChannelViewModel> ChannelViewModels { get; private set; }
    public ObservableCollection<IAnnotationViewModel> Annotations { get; private set; }

    public string SelectedChannelType { get; set; }


    public ResamplingPrecision SelectedResamplingPrecision { get; set; }

    public int SelectedChannelCount { get; set; }

    public ActionCommand<object> ChangeChannelHeightCommand { get; }

    public ActionCommand AddChannelCommand { get; }

    public ActionCommand LoadChannelsCommand { get; }

    public long TotalPoints => ChannelViewModels.Sum(c => (long)c.DataCount);

    public bool IsLoading
    {
        get => _isLoading;
        set
        {
            _isLoading = value;
            OnPropertyChanged(nameof(IsLoading));
        }
    }

    public bool IsEmpty => ChannelViewModels.Count <= 0;

    public DoubleRange XRange
    {
        get => _xRange;
        set
        {
            _xRange = value;
            OnPropertyChanged(nameof(XRange));
        }
    }
}

+Attached image below is what i want to implement.
++I also attached tried code in .zip .