I'm new to charting in winforms and I'm having a little trouble getting the chart to display a set number of points at time.
Using the code from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/5146430 :
private void FillChart()
{
int blockSize = 100;
// generates random data (i.e. 30 * blockSize random numbers)
Random rand = new Random();
var valuesArray = Enumerable.Range(0, blockSize * 30).Select(x => rand.Next(1, 10)).ToArray();
// clear the chart
chart1.Series.Clear();
// fill the chart
var series = chart1.Series.Add("My Series");
series.ChartType = SeriesChartType.Line;
series.XValueType = ChartValueType.Int32;
for (int i = 0; i < valuesArray.Length; i++)
series.Points.AddXY(i, valuesArray[i]);
var chartArea = chart1.ChartAreas[series.ChartArea];
// set view range to [0,max]
chartArea.AxisX.Minimum = 0;
chartArea.AxisX.Maximum = valuesArray.Length;
// enable autoscroll
chartArea.CursorX.AutoScroll = true;
// let's zoom to [0,blockSize] (e.g. [0,100])
chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.SizeType = DateTimeIntervalType.Number;
int position = 0;
int size = blockSize;
chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.Zoom(position, size);
// disable zoom-reset button (only scrollbar's arrows are available)
chartArea.AxisX.ScrollBar.ButtonStyle = ScrollBarButtonStyles.SmallScroll;
// set scrollbar small change to blockSize (e.g. 100)
chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.SmallScrollSize = blockSize;
}
What would I change here to only show, say three data points at a time? I tried changing the Maximum
of the x-axis, which worked but took away the scrolling bar. I also tried messing around with the blockSize
variable here.