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We have discovered that Scichart is leaking memory on one of our machines.

Setting VisualXcceleratorEngine.IsEnabled=false prevents the memory leak.

In trying to produce a minimum reproduction I found that all I needed was a blank new WPF project with an empty SciChartSurface on it (https://grinstallers.blob.core.windows.net/public/Scichart%20Memory%20leak.zip as it would not let me attach it here).

Simply resizing the window would cause the leak. I have linked to a screen recording showing the leak occurring in real-time (https://grinstallers.blob.core.windows.net/public/Screen%20Recording%202024-11-21%20132048.mp4). The machine with the issue has an AMD Radeon RX 640 video card and I do not get the same leaking behaviour on another machine with Intel UHD Graphics 770. I have updated all drivers to the latest version and the leak still happens.

A memory dump of the process shows the majority of memory is unmanaged (Managed heap = ~450MB of 10GB).

I have gone back as far as version 8.0.0.27737 and the leaking behaviour is still there.

Hi!

I want to create a graph, where vertical line annotations are displayed at each column of a chart. I
have the vertical line annotations created like this:

xaml:

code behind

        statisticsChartAnnotations = new AnnotationCollection();
        Style sliceStyle = App.Current.FindResource("sliceStyle") as Style;
        if (displayedChartSeries.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (DateTime datapoint in displayedChartSeries[0].DataSeries.XValues)
            {
                VerticalLineAnnotation a = new VerticalLineAnnotation()
                {
                    Style = sliceStyle,
                    X1 = datapoint,
                    IsEnabled = false,
                };
                StatisticsChartAnnotations.Add(a);

            }

        }

But when I display the first chart, the annotations are displayed by an offset from the columns. When i switch to the next chart, the annotations jump to the right positions. I attached a picture of the problem. First charts shows the initial positions.

I already tried refreshing the surface through viewportmanager and dataseries. Is this a known bug? is there any workaround? Is there a way to render the annotations right to the data points?

Thanks,
Krist├│f

Hello ,

I have created a SimpleScatterChart3D application using the dll’s from SciChart Official Releases NuGet Feeds (myget) and when i plotted 20 thousand data points to the chart i am getting Access Violation Exception in SciChart.Charting.dll .

Can you please let us know how can i resolve this issue.

Thanks

Boxplot series on the second axis have a different width (very small on second series) when there are multiple Y-axes and the values ÔÇïÔÇïof the first series of the first axis are between 0.1-0.6 and those of the second between 41400-41900.

What is the recommended way to use the same text formatting for both Axis and Annotation labels?

There are two scenarios.

1. When DateTimeAxis automatically change the format

When zooming DatetimeAxis, it automatically changes the text format in the label. For example if XAxis visible range is few seconds, it changes the format as HH:mm:ss. But still the annotation label shows the date. Please see attachement : DatetimeAxisAnnotationLabel.PNG

<sciChart:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
        <sciChart:DateTimeAxis Name="XAxisStartTime" AxisTitle="Start Time"/>
</sciChart:SciChartSurface.XAxis>

1. When XAxis has got a LabelFormatter

If there is a LabelFormatter, what is the recommended way to apply the same formatting for Annotation Label text?
Please see attachement : LabelFormatterAnnotationLabel.PNG (annotation label shows number of milliseconds)

<sciChart:SciChartSurface.XAxis>
<sciChart:NumericAxis Name="XAxisDuration" AxisTitle="Duration" LabelFormatter="{StaticResource TimeDurationAxisFormatter}" AxisMode="Logarithmic" />
</sciChart:SciChartSurface.XAxis>

Thanks!

When I have cursor tooltips enabled, showing the y-values, they display properly until the y-valuse for the 1st series is below the axis y-min. Below the tooltip y-values are showing correctly

If I move the mouse to the left, below 25 Hz, the tooltip disappears as below.
How can I correct this?

Thanks,
Robert

I got this problem:

Any idea how to resolve this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6 Tools>sgen.exe /assembly:F:\AMSV2\AMS\bin\Debug\AMS.exe
Microsoft (R) Xml Serialization support utility
[Microsoft (R) .NET Framework, Version 4.6.81.0]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Error: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).
error CS0433: The type ‘XamlGeneratedNamespace.GeneratedInternalTypeHelper’ exists in both ‘f:\AMSV2\AMS\bin\Debug\SciChart.Charting.dll’ and ‘f:\AMSV2\AMS\bin\Debug\AMS.exe’
error CS0433: The type ‘XamlGeneratedNamespace.GeneratedInternalTypeHelper’ exists in both ‘f:\AMSV2\AMS\bin\Debug\SciChart.Charting.dll’ and ‘f:\AMSV2\AMS\bin\Debug\AMS.exe’

I’m implementing exporting charts. As part of my export, the user can specify the size of the chart. I’ve managed to get sciChartSurface.ExportToBitmapSource() working fine for single graphs.

However, I’ve got some quite complex layouts, and when I try to render parent controls that contain Scichart controls manually, with say:

ExportUIElement.Measure(size);
ExportUIElement.Arrange(new Rect(size));

 int dpiScaling = 3;
RenderTargetBitmap bmp = new RenderTargetBitmap(Width * dpiScaling, Height * dpiScaling,
                                                                                                           96 * dpiScaling, 96 * dpiScaling,
                                                                                                           PixelFormats.Pbgra32);

I’m finding everything working, the chart layout & axis/labels update and render fine, but the chart content is not re-rendered to the new size, causing some messy/strange visual effects. This one was arranged to a larger size, you can see that the actual chart content is now sitting snugly in the middle of a large margin:

Can I force Scichart to re-render these so I can manually render the component in a different size?

Hi
Is there a way to just change the values of the pie segments so it get updated on the donut chart.
If I remove and add the pie segments again it works, is this the correct way?

Also I can’t find any documentation around the donut for android/xamarin

regards
Per

Hello,

As you have already the examples of the EEG -50 channel, Is it possible to set the sensitivity factor for the channels to show the graph.
Basically, this will set the amplitude based on the frequency variation example 7micro volts/millimeter (7microvolts/mm) for each channel. Is there any way we can do it using Scichart, please let us know.

Appreciate your help

Regards,
Aditya

Hi,

I upgraded scichart.js from 3.5.774 to 4.0.918, my chart now has a padding on the right side even though it was not there before.
I only added yAxis to the left side of the chart and not the right (please see attached image).

I’ve already set padding to 0:
sciChartSurface.padding = Thickness.fromString(‘0 0 0 0’)

If I want to get rid of the padding, I now have to change it to:
sciChartSurface.padding = Thickness.fromString(‘0 -11 0 0’)

The breaking changes page only mention padding change to the SciChartSubSurface, but I am not using that. https://www.scichart.com/documentation/js/v4/whats-new/breaking-changes-v3-v4/

I only have one sciChartSurface.
const { sciChartSurface, wasmContext } = await SciChartSurface.create(divElementId)

Please let me know what might be causing this, thanks.

with Version 3.61.0.7847 I can set Runtime license without problem
with v4.0.30319 the message “Der Typeninitialisierer f├╝r “” hat eine Ausnahme verursacht.” appear

Has anybody a solution?

Hi guys,

I am having difficulties setting the background of my bar chart with SCICategoryDateTime X axis since I switched to 2.0.

As far as I understand, just setting the background property of the SCIChartSurface should suffice.
These are all of the things I’ve tried:

1. [self.barSurface setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
2. [self.barSurfaceView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; 
3. self.barSurface.renderableSeriesAreaFill = [[SCISolidBrushStyle alloc] initWithColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
4. [self.barSurface.renderSurface setIsTransparent:YES];

I didn’t find any other way of setting it, but it still remains black. Any thought on what might cause it?

EDIT: I just found out about this color setting:

[axisStyle setGridBandBrush:[[SCISolidBrushStyle alloc] initWithColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]];

The result I got was a black and white chess board, as shown on the attached picture. I really don’t understand this behaviour. If I set this gridBandBrush to nil, columns are coloured with random colours, so the chart looks like a rainbow. I understand why is this happening but shouldn’t there be a default colour in case brush is nil?

EDIT 2: While debugging using “Capture view hierarchy” in XCode I discovered that render surface is actually white inside debugger. Perhaps it will give more insight to you, it doesn’t mean much to me – I guess it’s because rendering is done on GPU and the context is not available to the debugger.

Best,
Igor

Hi, guys

I want to show two renderableSeries on one chart view. These series have common x-axis (SCICategoryDateTimeAxis) and separate y-axes(SCINumericAxis). Only one of y-axis is visible at chart view. Also the data series of visible renderable series updated by scrolling to left or to right. So for displaying on one view i’m using:

[y1Axis setGrowBy: [[SCIDoubleRange alloc] initWithMin:SCIGeneric(0.3) Max:SCIGeneric(0.07)]];
[y2Axis setGrowBy: [[SCIDoubleRange alloc] initWithMin:SCIGeneric(0.0) Max:SCIGeneric(5)]];

So it’s look good at start (Correct_zooming.png). But after some scrolling it decrease axis extents of invisible y-axis (decrease.png).
Or even breaks down (broken.png)

For test i’m using SCIFastOhlcRenderableSeries and SCIHorizontallyStackedColumnsCollection readerable series.
Data series for SCIHorizontallyStackedColumnsCollection is initializated like:

    [volumeSerie1 updateAt:index Y:SCIGeneric(100000 / [multiplier doubleValue])];
    [volumeSerie2 updateAt:index Y:SCIGeneric(500000 / [multiplier doubleValue])];

So can you look at it?
Or what way i should implement this behavior?

Best regards,
Sushynski Andrei

Hi

I have experienced some performance issues when accessing YMin & YMax properties of data series containing lots of NaNÔÇÖs.

I have a chart with the following setup:

XAxis = DateTime / YAxis = Numeric
1 FastLineRenderableSeries series / XyDataSeries<DateTime, double>

I have prefilled the data series with 1 million datapoints. Some of the values are randomly made NaNÔÇÖs.

If 1/2 of the Y values are NaNÔÇÖs – accessing YMin or YMax property takes ~117ms.
If 1/10 of the values are NaNÔÇÖs it ÔÇ£onlyÔÇØ takes ~27 ms.
…and if no NaNÔÇÖs are added to the data series ÔÇô it takes ~3ms;

This is a huge problem for us ÔÇô as we have large data series including lots of NaNÔÇÖs ÔÇô and we must access the YMin / YMax each time data is added to do special scale fitting. This is normally once per second ÔÇô but with up to 20 data series ÔÇô (117ms * 2 *20 ) it takes over 4 seconds.

If I have 10 million datapoints ÔÇô it takes 10 times as long ÔÇô so it looks like it is recalculating the min/max each time.

/Flemming

We have big trouble with SciChart 6.1. First was the initial loading time. But there is this async loading workaround.
Now if we try to render a simple (not large) signal into the chart, it hangs in the rendering loop. No exception, high CPU usage.
Any solution for this issue?

It works on some, but it fails on most of our PCs/Laptops.

My code is as below

for (int i = 0; i < plot.ZData.Length; i++)
{
var xData = plot.XData[i];
var yData = plot.YData[i];
for (int j = 0; j < xData.Length; j++)
{
dataSeries[i, j] = yData[j];
}
}

Here Z values and X values are linear and Y values are in Logarthimic scale.
I have used Z and Y axis as NumericAxis3D and X is LogarithmicNumericAxis3D .

Is something wrong here? Please suggest.

What I need is 2 or more VerticalLineAnnotation which can be placed dynamically to act as cursors, showing the difference in value between the two using MVVM and am struggling where to start.

I have been looking at the thread
https://www.scichart.com/questions/question/editing-annotations-and-keeping-track-of-them-in-an-mvvm-application/
but am a bit clueless to what is happening as I am a beginner to C# and MVVM, and am struggling to understand.

I have firstly tried to change your AnnotationMvvm example to use an observable collection as suggested , so that values can be changes, but I can’t even get this to work, as LabelsSource is being returned as null, I am not sure if I have the dependency property correct.I am also not quite sure how the attach etc is working and will struggle to convert to using VerticalLineAnnotation too.

public static readonly DependencyProperty LabelsSourceProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("LabelsSource", typeof(ObservableCollection<IChartSeriesViewModel>), typeof(CustomAnnotationChartModifier), new PropertyMetadata(null, OnLabelsSourceChanged));

        // Here LabelsSource is IEnumerable, but you could easily make it ObservableCollection<LabelViewModel> 
        // in order to get changed notifications when items are added to, or removed from the collection
        public ObservableCollection<IChartSeriesViewModel> LabelsSource
        {
            get { return (ObservableCollection<IChartSeriesViewModel>)GetValue(LabelsSourceProperty); }
            set { SetValue(LabelsSourceProperty, value); }
        }

        // Get a notification when new labels are set.
        private static void OnLabelsSourceChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            var modifier = (CustomAnnotationChartModifier) d;
            ObservableCollection<IChartSeriesViewModel> newValue = e.NewValue as ObservableCollection<IChartSeriesViewModel>;
            if (newValue == null) return;

modifier.RebuildAnnotations();
}

You say at the end of the thread, you are thinking of doing a good demo on how to do all this, I don’t suppose you could knock me one up using dynamic VerticalLine annotations (MVVM) as above with a display of the difference in the 2 values?

Thanks

After updating to SciChart 3.1, I started getting the following binding error:

System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : Cannot find source for binding with reference ‘RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType=’Abt.Controls.SciChart.Visuals.SciChartSurfaceBase’, AncestorLevel=’1”. BindingExpression:Path=MaxFrameRate; DataItem=null; target element is ‘HighSpeedRenderSurface’ (Name=”); target property is ‘MaxFramerate’ (type ‘Nullable`1’)

I’m not binding MaxFrameRate anywhere nor do I have a HighSpeedRenderSurface explicitly defined in my code, so I’m guessing this error is occurring somewhere in a SciChart control.

I have several SciChartSurface elements across different controls in my application. I tried setting a global style:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type s:SciChartSurfaceBase}">
    <Setter Property="MaxFrameRate" Value="24"/>
</Style>

This had no effect on the binding error.

Any help would be appreciated since I think these errors are affecting the loading speed of my UI.

I’ve implemented the following ContextMenu:

  <s:SciChartSurface.ContextMenu>
            <ContextMenu>
                <MenuItem x:Name ="header1" Header="Einf├╝gen" Command="{Binding InsertItem}" IsEnabled="{Binding SelectedElementsCount,Converter={StaticResource BoolToOppositeBoolConverter}}" />
                <MenuItem Header="Entfernen" Command="{Binding RemoveItem}" />
                <MenuItem x:Name ="header2" Header="Ändern" Command="{Binding ChangeItem}" IsEnabled="{Binding SelectedElementsCount,Converter={StaticResource BoolToOppositeBoolConverter}}" />
                <MenuItem x:Name ="header3" Header="Verschieben" Command="{Binding ChangeItem}" IsEnabled="{Binding SelectedElementsCount}" />
            </ContextMenu>
        </s:SciChartSurface.ContextMenu>

This still worked, but I have changed the AnnotationsCanvas from the Annotations to AboveChart and the Context Menu doesn’t show if I press the right mouse button:

<s:SciChartSurface.Annotations>

            <!-- Draws Bands behind each axis -->
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch0" Style="{StaticResource BoxAnnotationStyle0}" X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch0}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch0}" AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"  PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch1" Style="{StaticResource BoxAnnotationStyle1}" X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch1}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch1}" AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"   PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch2" Style="{StaticResource BoxAnnotationStyle0}" X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch2}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch2}" AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"  PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch3" Style="{StaticResource BoxAnnotationStyle1}" X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch3}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch3}" AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart" PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />

            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch1" Name="boxAnnotationCh1" Style="{StaticResource ScichartBoxAnnotationColor_Geometry}" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="0"
                             X1="{Binding Coord_CH1.X1,Mode=TwoWay}"  X2="{Binding Coord_CH1.X2,Mode=TwoWay}"  Y1="{Binding Coord_CH1.Y1,Mode=TwoWay}"  Y2="{Binding Coord_CH1.Y2,Mode=TwoWay}"
                             AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"   PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch2" Name="boxAnnotationCh2"  Style="{StaticResource ScichartBoxAnnotationColor_Geometry}" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="3"
                             X1="{Binding Coord_CH2.X1}"  X2="{Binding Coord_CH2.X2}"  Y1="{Binding Coord_CH2.Y1}"  Y2="{Binding Coord_CH2.Y2}"
                             PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown"
                             AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart" />
            <s:BoxAnnotation YAxisId="Ch3" Name="boxAnnotationCh3"  Style="{StaticResource ScichartBoxAnnotationColor_Geometry}" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="3"
                             X1="{Binding Coord_CH3.X1}"  X2="{Binding Coord_CH3.X2}"  Y1="{Binding Coord_CH3.Y1}"  Y2="{Binding Coord_CH3.Y2}"
                             PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />

            <!-- Draws a Header line into each chart -->
            <s:TextAnnotation Text="{lex:Loc NominalGeometryInput:Resources:AxisDirection}" YAxisId="Ch1"  X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch1}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch1}" Style="{StaticResource ScichartChartHeaderStyle}"  AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"  PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:TextAnnotation Text="{lex:Loc NominalGeometryInput:Resources:AxisSuperelevation}" YAxisId="Ch2"  X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch2}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch2}" Style="{StaticResource ScichartChartHeaderStyle}"  AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"  PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
            <s:TextAnnotation Text="{lex:Loc NominalGeometryInput:Resources:AxisElevation}" YAxisId="Ch3"  X1="0" X2="1" Y1="{Binding VisibleRange.Min, ElementName=Ch3}" Y2="{Binding VisibleRange.Max, ElementName=Ch3}" Style="{StaticResource ScichartChartHeaderStyle}"  AnnotationCanvas="AboveChart"  PreviewMouseMove="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseMove" PreviewMouseDown="BoxAnnotation_PreviewMouseDown" />
        </s:SciChartSurface.Annotations>

We have a motion sensor for which we present a real time graph. As can be seen from the attached image, my YAxis configuration (auto range) causes the yaxis scale to display noise in a way that is rather disturbing (see attached image).
I have tried to do some fiddling with the axis settings, but with no luck so far.
The YAxis perfectly follows the measured data, but when there is practically no motion, the graph should be shown as an almost straight line, preferably not in the upper or lower end of the scale.

Hi !
Is it possible to display the RollOverModifier tooltip on the real points only ? Say I have points (1 1) and (3 3) in my chart and I don’t wan’t the tooltip to display (1.5 1.5), (2 2), (2.5 2.5) etc. when rolling over… Any idea ?

Thank you,

Adrien

I am showing a dialog window with a ChartSurface in it. I have a context menu option to export to an image, and on window load I export to an XPS file. The dialog works fine if I do not use either feature, but once I do, I intermittently get an exception when showing the dialog. It appears to regularly take 3 instances of the dialog after the export feature is used to throw the exception, and the exception gets thrown twice the first time, threes times the second time, and so on. Again, if I do not use the export feature (no call to ExportToFile), I do not get any exceptions no matter how many times I show the dialog.

The exception message is “The provided DependencyObject is not a context for this Freezable. Parameter name: context”.

There are no other useful details in the exception from what I can see. Its all pretty abstract WPF stuff. The exported file/image seem to be generated accurately regardless of the exception.

I am using SciChart 4.2.2.9724, Visual Studio 2017 Professional, C#, WPF

Any ideas?