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Arguments: chart-widget &key item-index object-index item-id object-id value from-value low-value high-value icon-size update-now
Establishes one or more of the values to display on a chart-widget for a single pairing
of a chart item and a chart object. The return value is not defined.
(For example, if a line graph has a line for each bowler on a team, and a bowling score for each week, then each bowler is represented by a chart object while each week is represented by a chart item.)
An alternative to calling set-chart-value multiple times is to provide a chart-value-returner function that will be called as needed to return all of the chart's values. That approach is more efficient if you already have all of the chart's data stored somewhere such as in an array. The set-chart-value approach is somewhat more straightforward, and is more suitable if you are incrementally adding or modifying the data over time.
chart-widget is the widget to modify.
The first group of keyword arguments specify which chart item/object pair to modify.
:new to add a
chart item just after the last existing chart item, or the symbol
:last to modify the last existing chart item (that
is, the one with the highest index), or nil
to not specify an item index. If both item-index
and item-id are nil,
then item-index defaults to
:new. If both item-index and
item-id are true, then the item at
item-index is used and its ID is changed to the
specified item-id. If the chart is empty and
item-index is :last, then it
behaves like :new.
nil to not
specify an object index. If both object-index and
object-id are nil, then
object-index defaults to zero. If both are true,
then object-index takes precedence.
nil to not specify an item
ID. If item-index is nil and item-id is true, then if
there is an existing item whose ID is item-id
then it will be modified, and otherwise a new item will be created
just after the current last item, and its ID will be
item-id.
nil to not specify an
object ID. If object-index is nil and object-id is true, then
if there is an existing object whose ID is
object-id then it will be modified, and otherwise
a new object will be created and its ID will be
object-id.
(If there is no entry in the chart-objects property for the specified object-index or object-id, the chart-objects sequence is expanded to include such an entry.)
The next group of keyword arguments specify one or more values for the
specified item/object pair. Any subset of these arguments may be
passed, though the auxilliary values will have no effect until if and
when the main value is specified for the same item/object pair. A
value must always be either a real number to add a value to the chart,
or else nil to remove a value from the chart.
Existing values can be modified by respecifying them in further calls
to set-chart-value.
bar-chart-view, which in turn defaults to zero.
chart-view, and is
typically used for an error range.
chart-view, and is
typically used for an error range.
line-graph-view is
true, and only if the icon-images property uses names of the built-in
line-drawing icons (which are :circle,
:square, :triangle, and
:diamond) rather than pixmaps.
nil, then the widget
is invalidated so that it will be redrawn to reflect the new value,
but as usual not until all queued events are handled. This allows
adding many values quickly, which will then be displayed once at the
end. If true, then the chart will be redrawn immediately. This
allows animating the incremental adding of values. (If a sleep or process-wait occurs between the
adding of incremental values, then the widget should still redisplay
at those times without passing this argument as true.)
See chart-widget and also
cg-chart-widget.htm.
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This page was not revised from the 8.1 page.
Created 2010.1.21.
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