I am searching a library to generate and export a chart as on a Net Core 3.1 BackgroundService. I found Live-Charts.
In this i found a link to an example to export the chart to image. But this is for WPF and did not work. Had this exception in the line var myChart = new LiveCharts.Wpf.CartesianChart
:
System.InvalidOperationException: 'The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this.'
This the my BackgroundService code:
public class Worker1 : BackgroundService
{
private readonly ILogger<Worker1> _logger;
public Worker1(ILogger<Worker1> logger)
{
_logger = logger;
}
protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
{
while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
{
BuildPngOnClick();
_logger.LogInformation("Worker running at: {time}", DateTimeOffset.Now);
await Task.Delay(10000, stoppingToken);
}
}
private void BuildPngOnClick()
{
var myChart = new LiveCharts.Wpf.CartesianChart
{
DisableAnimations = true,
Width = 600,
Height = 200,
Series = new SeriesCollection
{
new LineSeries
{
Values = new ChartValues<double> {1, 6, 7, 2, 9, 3, 6, 5}
}
}
};
var viewbox = new Viewbox();
viewbox.Child = myChart;
viewbox.Measure(myChart.RenderSize);
viewbox.Arrange(new Rect(new Point(0, 0), myChart.RenderSize));
myChart.Update(true, true); //force chart redraw
viewbox.UpdateLayout();
SaveToPng(myChart, @"c:\chart.png");
}
private void SaveToPng(FrameworkElement visual, string fileName)
{
var encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
EncodeVisual(visual, fileName, encoder);
}
private static void EncodeVisual(FrameworkElement visual, string fileName, BitmapEncoder encoder)
{
var bitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)visual.ActualWidth, (int)visual.ActualHeight, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
bitmap.Render(visual);
var frame = BitmapFrame.Create(bitmap);
encoder.Frames.Add(frame);
using (var stream = File.Create(fileName)) encoder.Save(stream);
}
}
Is it possible to export a chart using Live-Charts in a Net Core 3.1 BackgroundService? If no, do you know another free library that support multiple axes where it is possible?
Thanks in advance.