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Flot Reference
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--------------
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Consider a call to the plot function:
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var plot = $.plot(placeholder, data, options)
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The placeholder is a jQuery object that the plot will be put into.
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This placeholder needs to have its width and height set as explained
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in the README (go read that now if you haven't, it's short). The plot
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will modify some properties of the placeholder so it's recommended you
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simply pass in a div that you don't use for anything else.
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The format of the data is documented below, as is the available
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options. The "plot" object returned has some methods you can call.
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These are documented separately below.
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Note that in general Flot gives no guarantees if you change any of the
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objects you pass in to the plot function or get out of it since
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they're not necessarily deep-copied.
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Data Format
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-----------
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The data is an array of data series:
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[ series1, series2, ... ]
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A series can either be raw data or an object with properties. The raw
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data format is an array of points:
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[ [x1, y1], [x2, y2], ... ]
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E.g.
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[ [1, 3], [2, 14.01], [3.5, 3.14] ]
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Note that to simplify the internal logic in Flot both the x and y
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values must be numbers, even if specifying time series (see below for
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how to do this). This is a common problem because you might retrieve
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data from the database and serialize them directly to JSON without
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noticing the wrong type.
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If a null is specified as a point or if one of the coordinates is null
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or couldn't be converted to a number, the point is ignored when
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drawing. As a special case, a null value for lines is interpreted as a
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line segment end, i.e. the point before and after the null value are
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not connected.
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The format of a single series object is as follows:
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{
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color: color or number,
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data: rawdata,
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label: string,
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lines: specific lines options,
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bars: specific bars options,
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points: specific points options,
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xaxis: 1 or 2,
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yaxis: 1 or 2,
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shadowSize: number
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}
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You don't have to specify any of them except the data, the rest are
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options that will get default values. Typically you'd only specify
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label and data, like this:
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{
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label: "y = 3",
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data: [[0, 3], [10, 3]]
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}
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The label is used for the legend, if you don't specify one, the series
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will not show up in the legend.
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If you don't specify color, the series will get a color from the
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auto-generated colors. The color is either a CSS color specification
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(like "rgb(255, 100, 123)") or an integer that specifies which of
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auto-generated colors to select, e.g. 0 will get color no. 0, etc.
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The latter is mostly useful if you let the user add and remove series,
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in which case you can hard-code the color index to prevent the colors
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from jumping around between the series.
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The "xaxis" and "yaxis" options specify which axis to use, specify 2
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to get the secondary axis (x axis at top or y axis to the right).
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E.g., you can use this to make a dual axis plot by specifying
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{ yaxis: 2 } for one data series.
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The rest of the options are all documented below as they are the same
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as the default options passed in via the options parameter in the plot
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commmand. When you specify them for a specific data series, they will
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override the default options for the plot for that data series.
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Here's a complete example of a simple data specification:
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[ { label: "Foo", data: [ [10, 1], [17, -14], [30, 5] ] },
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{ label: "Bar", data: [ [11, 13], [19, 11], [30, -7] ] } ]
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Plot Options
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------------
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All options are completely optional. They are documented individually
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below, to change them you just specify them in an object, e.g.
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var options = {
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lines: { show: true },
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points: { show: true }
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};
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$.plot(placeholder, data, options);
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Customizing the legend
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======================
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legend: {
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show: boolean
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labelFormatter: null or (fn: string -> string)
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labelBoxBorderColor: color
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noColumns: number
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position: "ne" or "nw" or "se" or "sw"
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margin: number of pixels
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backgroundColor: null or color
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backgroundOpacity: number in 0.0 - 1.0
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container: null or jQuery object
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}
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The legend is generated as a table with the data series labels and
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small label boxes with the color of the series. If you want to format
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the labels in some way, e.g. make them to links, you can pass in a
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function for "labelFormatter". Here's an example that makes them
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clickable:
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labelFormatter: function(label) {
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return '<a href="' + label + '">' + label + '</a>';
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}
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"noColumns" is the number of columns to divide the legend table into.
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"position" specifies the overall placement of the legend within the
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plot (top-right, top-left, etc.) and margin the distance to the plot
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edge. "backgroundColor" and "backgroundOpacity" specifies the
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background. The default is a partly transparent auto-detected
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background.
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If you want the legend to appear somewhere else in the DOM, you can
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specify "container" as a jQuery object to put the legend table into.
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The "position" and "margin" etc. options will then be ignored. Note
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that it will overwrite the contents of the container.
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Customizing the axes
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====================
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xaxis, yaxis, x2axis, y2axis: {
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mode: null or "time"
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min: null or number
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max: null or number
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autoscaleMargin: null or number
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labelWidth: null or number
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labelHeight: null or number
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ticks: null or number or ticks array or (fn: range -> ticks array)
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tickSize: number or array
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minTickSize: number or array
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tickFormatter: (fn: number, object -> string) or string
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tickDecimals: null or number
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}
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The axes have the same kind of options. The "mode" option
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determines how the data is interpreted, the default of null means as
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decimal numbers. Use "time" for time series data, see the next section.
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The options "min"/"max" are the precise minimum/maximum value on the
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scale. If you don't specify either of them, a value will automatically
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be chosen based on the minimum/maximum data values.
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The "autoscaleMargin" is a bit esoteric: it's the fraction of margin
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that the scaling algorithm will add to avoid that the outermost points
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ends up on the grid border. Note that this margin is only applied
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when a min or max value is not explicitly set. If a margin is
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specified, the plot will furthermore extend the axis end-point to the
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nearest whole tick. The default value is "null" for the x axis and
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0.02 for the y axis which seems appropriate for most cases.
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"labelWidth" and "labelHeight" specifies the maximum size of the tick
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labels in pixels. They're useful in case you need to align several
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plots.
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The rest of the options deal with the ticks.
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If you don't specify any ticks, a tick generator algorithm will make
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some for you. The algorithm has two passes. It first estimates how
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many ticks would be reasonable and uses this number to compute a nice
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round tick interval size. Then it generates the ticks.
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You can specify how many ticks the algorithm aims for by setting
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"ticks" to a number. The algorithm always tries to generate reasonably
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round tick values so even if you ask for three ticks, you might get
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five if that fits better with the rounding. If you don't want ticks,
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set "ticks" to 0 or an empty array.
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Another option is to skip the rounding part and directly set the tick
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interval size with "tickSize". If you set it to 2, you'll get ticks at
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2, 4, 6, etc. Alternatively, you can specify that you just don't want
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ticks at a size less than a specific tick size with "minTickSize".
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Note that for time series, the format is an array like [2, "month"],
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see the next section.
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If you want to completely override the tick algorithm, you can specify
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an array for "ticks", either like this:
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ticks: [0, 1.2, 2.4]
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Or like this (you can mix the two if you like):
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ticks: [[0, "zero"], [1.2, "one mark"], [2.4, "two marks"]]
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For extra flexibility you can specify a function as the "ticks"
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parameter. The function will be called with an object with the axis
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min and max and should return a ticks array. Here's a simplistic tick
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generator that spits out intervals of pi, suitable for use on the x
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axis for trigonometric functions:
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function piTickGenerator(axis) {
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var res = [], i = Math.floor(axis.min / Math.PI);
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do {
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var v = i * Math.PI;
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res.push([v, i + "\u03c0"]);
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++i;
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} while (v < axis.max);
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return res;
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}
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You can control how the ticks look like with "tickDecimals", the
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number of decimals to display (default is auto-detected).
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Alternatively, for ultimate control over how ticks look like you can
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provide a function to "tickFormatter". The function is passed two
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parameters, the tick value and an "axis" object with information, and
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should return a string. The default formatter looks like this:
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function formatter(val, axis) {
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return val.toFixed(axis.tickDecimals);
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}
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The axis object has "min" and "max" with the range of the axis,
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"tickDecimals" with the number of decimals to round the value to and
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"tickSize" with the size of the interval between ticks as calculated
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by the automatic axis scaling algorithm (or specified by you). Here's
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an example of a custom formatter:
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function suffixFormatter(val, axis) {
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if (val > 1000000)
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return (val / 1000000).toFixed(axis.tickDecimals) + " MB";
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else if (val > 1000)
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return (val / 1000).toFixed(axis.tickDecimals) + " kB";
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else
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return val.toFixed(axis.tickDecimals) + " B";
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}
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Time series data
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================
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Time series are a bit more difficult than scalar data because
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calendars don't follow a simple base 10 system. For many cases, Flot
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abstracts most of this away, but it can still be a bit difficult to
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get the data into Flot. So we'll first discuss the data format.
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The time series support in Flot is based on Javascript timestamps,
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i.e. everywhere a time value is expected or handed over, a Javascript
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timestamp number is used. This is a number, not a Date object. A
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Javascript timestamp is the number of milliseconds since January 1,
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1970 00:00:00 UTC. This is almost the same as Unix timestamps, except it's
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in milliseconds, so remember to multiply by 1000!
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You can see a timestamp like this
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alert((new Date()).getTime())
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Normally you want the timestamps to be displayed according to a
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certain time zone, usually the time zone in which the data has been
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produced. However, Flot always displays timestamps according to UTC.
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It has to as the only alternative with core Javascript is to interpret
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the timestamps according to the time zone that the visitor is in,
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which means that the ticks will shift unpredictably with the time zone
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and daylight savings of each visitor.
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So given that there's no good support for custom time zones in
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Javascript, you'll have to take care of this server-side.
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The easiest way to think about it is to pretend that the data
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production time zone is UTC, even if it isn't. So if you have a
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datapoint at 2002-02-20 08:00, you can generate a timestamp for eight
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o'clock UTC even if it really happened eight o'clock UTC+0200.
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In PHP you can get an appropriate timestamp with
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'strtotime("2002-02-20 UTC") * 1000', in Python with
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'calendar.timegm(datetime_object.timetuple()) * 1000', in .NET with
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something like:
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public static int GetJavascriptTimestamp(System.DateTime input)
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{
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System.TimeSpan span = new System.TimeSpan(System.DateTime.Parse("1/1/1970").Ticks);
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System.DateTime time = input.Subtract(span);
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return (long)(time.Ticks / 10000);
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}
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Javascript also has some support for parsing date strings, so it is
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possible to generate the timestamps manually client-side.
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If you've already got the real UTC timestamp, it's too late to use the
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pretend trick described above. But you can fix up the timestamps by
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adding the time zone offset, e.g. for UTC+0200 you would add 2 hours
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to the UTC timestamp you got. Then it'll look right on the plot. Most
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programming environments have some means of getting the timezone
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offset for a specific date.
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Once you've got the timestamps into the data and specified "time" as
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the axis mode, Flot will automatically generate relevant ticks and
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format them. As always, you can tweak the ticks via the "ticks" option
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- just remember that the values should be timestamps (numbers), not
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Date objects.
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Tick generation and formatting can also be controlled separately
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through the following axis options:
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xaxis, yaxis: {
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minTickSize
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timeformat: null or format string
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monthNames: null or array of size 12 of strings
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}
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Here "timeformat" is a format string to use. You might use it like
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this:
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xaxis: {
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mode: "time",
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timeformat: "%y/%m/%d"
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}
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This will result in tick labels like "2000/12/24". The following
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specifiers are supported
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%h': hours
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%H': hours (left-padded with a zero)
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%M': minutes (left-padded with a zero)
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%S': seconds (left-padded with a zero)
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%d': day of month (1-31)
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%m': month (1-12)
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%y': year (four digits)
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%b': month name (customizable)
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You can customize the month names with the "monthNames" option. For
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instance, for Danish you might specify:
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monthName: ["jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "maj", "jun", "jul", "aug", "sep", "okt", "nov", "dec"]
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If everything else fails, you can control the formatting by specifying
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a custom tick formatter function as usual. Here's a simple example
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which will format December 24 as 24/12:
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tickFormatter: function (val, axis) {
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var d = new Date(val);
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return d.getUTCDate() + "/" + (d.getUTCMonth() + 1);
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}
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Note that for the time mode "tickSize" and "minTickSize" are a bit
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special in that they are arrays on the form "[value, unit]" where unit
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is one of "second", "minute", "hour", "day", "month" and "year". So
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you can specify
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minTickSize: [1, "month"]
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to get a tick interval size of at least 1 month and correspondingly,
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if axis.tickSize is [2, "day"] in the tick formatter, the ticks have
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been produced with two days in-between.
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Customizing the data series
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===========================
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lines, points, bars: {
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show: boolean
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lineWidth: number
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fill: boolean or number
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fillColor: color
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}
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points: {
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radius: number
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}
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bars: {
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barWidth: number
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align: "left" or "center"
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}
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colors: [ color1, color2, ... ]
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shadowSize: number
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The most important options are "lines", "points" and "bars" that
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specifies whether and how lines, points and bars should be shown for
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each data series. You can specify them independently of each other,
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and Flot will happily draw each of them in turn, e.g.
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var options = {
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lines: { show: true, fill: true, fillColor: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8)" },
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points: { show: true, fill: false }
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};
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"lineWidth" is the thickness of the line or outline in pixels.
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"fill" is whether the shape should be filled. For lines, this produces
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area graphs. You can use "fillColor" to specify the color of the fill.
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If "fillColor" evaluates to false (default for everything except
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points), the fill color is auto-set to the color of the data series.
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You can adjust the opacity of the fill by setting fill to a number
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between 0 (fully transparent) and 1 (fully opaque).
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"barWidth" is the width of the bars in units of the x axis, contrary
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to most other measures that are specified in pixels. For instance, for
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time series the unit is milliseconds so 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 produces
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bars with the width of a day. "align" specifies whether a bar should
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be left-aligned (default) or centered on top of the value it
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represents.
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The "colors" array specifies a default color theme to get colors for
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the data series from. You can specify as many colors as you like, like
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this:
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colors: ["#d18b2c", "#dba255", "#919733"]
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If there are more data series than colors, Flot will try to generate
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extra colors by lightening and darkening colors in the theme.
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"shadowSize" is the default size of shadows in pixels. Set it to 0 to
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remove shadows.
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Customizing the grid
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====================
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grid: {
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color: color
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backgroundColor: color or null
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tickColor: color
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labelMargin: number
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markings: array of markings or (fn: axes -> array of markings)
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borderWidth: number
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clickable: boolean
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hoverable: boolean
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autoHighlight: boolean
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mouseActiveRadius: number
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}
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The grid is the thing with the axes and a number of ticks. "color"
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is the color of the grid itself whereas "backgroundColor" specifies
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the background color inside the grid area. The default value of null
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means that the background is transparent. You should only need to set
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backgroundColor if you want the grid area to be a different color from the
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page color. Otherwise you might as well just set the background color
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of the page with CSS.
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"tickColor" is the color of the ticks and "labelMargin" is the spacing
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between tick labels and the grid. Note that you can style the tick
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labels with CSS, e.g. to change the color. They have class "tickLabel".
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"borderWidth" is the width of the border around the plot. Set it to 0
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to disable the border.
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"markings" is used to draw simple lines and rectangular areas in the
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background of the plot. You can either specify an array of ranges on
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the form { xaxis: { from, to }, yaxis: { from, to } } (secondary axis
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coordinates with x2axis/y2axis) or with a function that returns such
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an array given the axes for the plot in an object as the first
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parameter.
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You can set the color of markings by specifying "color" in the ranges
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object. Here's an example array:
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markings: [ { xaxis: { from: 0, to: 2 }, yaxis: { from: 10, to: 10 }, color: "#bb0000" }, ... ]
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If you leave out one of the values, that value is assumed to go to the
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border of the plot. So for example if you only specify { xaxis: {
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from: 0, to: 2 } } it means an area that extends from the top to the
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bottom of the plot in the x range 0-2.
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A line is drawn if from and to are the same, e.g.
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markings: [ { yaxis: { from: 1, to: 1 } }, ... ]
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would draw a line parallel to the x axis at y = 1. You can control the
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line width with "lineWidth" in the ranges objects.
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An example function might look like this:
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markings: function (axes) {
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var markings = [];
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for (var x = Math.floor(axes.xaxis.min); x < axes.xaxis.max; x += 2)
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markings.push({ xaxis: { from: x, to: x + 1 } });
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return markings;
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}
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If you set "clickable" to true, the plot will listen for click events
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on the plot area and fire a "plotclick" event on the placeholder with
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a position and a nearby data item object as parameters. The coordinates
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are available both in the unit of the axes (not in pixels) and in
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global screen coordinates.
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Likewise, if you set "hoverable" to true, the plot will listen for
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mouse move events on the plot area and fire a "plothover" event with
|
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the same parameters as the "plotclick" event. If "autoHighlight" is
|
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true (the default), nearby data items are highlighted automatically.
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If needed, you can disable highlighting and control it yourself with
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the highlight/unhighlight plot methods described elsewhere.
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You can use "plotclick" and "plothover" events like this:
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$.plot($("#placeholder"), [ d ], { grid: { clickable: true } });
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$("#placeholder").bind("plotclick", function (event, pos, item) {
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alert("You clicked at " + pos.x + ", " + pos.y);
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// secondary axis coordinates if present are in pos.x2, pos.y2,
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// if you need global screen coordinates, they are pos.pageX, pos.pageY
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|
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if (item) {
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highlight(item.series, item.datapoint);
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alert("You clicked a point!");
|
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}
|
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});
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|
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The item object in this example is either null or a nearby object on the form:
|
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|
||||
item: {
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datapoint: the point as you specified it in the data, e.g. [0, 2]
|
||||
dataIndex: the index of the point in the data array
|
||||
series: the series object
|
||||
seriesIndex: the index of the series
|
||||
pageX, pageY: the global screen coordinates of the point
|
||||
}
|
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|
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For instance, if you have specified the data like this
|
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|
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$.plot($("#placeholder"), [ { label: "Foo", data: [[0, 10], [7, 3]] } ], ...);
|
||||
|
||||
and the mouse is near the point (7, 3), "datapoint" is the [7, 3] we
|
||||
specified, "dataIndex" will be 1, "series" is a normalized series
|
||||
object with among other things the "Foo" label in series.label and the
|
||||
color in series.color, and "seriesIndex" is 0.
|
||||
|
||||
If you use the above events to update some other information and want
|
||||
to clear out that info in case the mouse goes away, you'll probably
|
||||
also need to listen to "mouseout" events on the placeholder div.
|
||||
|
||||
"mouseActiveRadius" specifies how far the mouse can be from an item
|
||||
and still activate it. If there are two or more points within this
|
||||
radius, Flot chooses the closest item. For bars, the top-most bar
|
||||
(from the latest specified data series) is chosen.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Customizing the selection
|
||||
=========================
|
||||
|
||||
selection: {
|
||||
mode: null or "x" or "y" or "xy",
|
||||
color: color
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
You enable selection support by setting the mode to one of "x", "y" or
|
||||
"xy". In "x" mode, the user will only be able to specify the x range,
|
||||
similarly for "y" mode. For "xy", the selection becomes a rectangle
|
||||
where both ranges can be specified. "color" is color of the selection.
|
||||
|
||||
When selection support is enabled, a "plotselected" event will be emitted
|
||||
on the DOM element you passed into the plot function. The event
|
||||
handler gets one extra parameter with the ranges selected on the axes,
|
||||
like this:
|
||||
|
||||
placeholder.bind("plotselected", function(event, ranges) {
|
||||
alert("You selected " + ranges.xaxis.from + " to " + ranges.xaxis.to)
|
||||
// similar for yaxis, secondary axes are in x2axis
|
||||
// and y2axis if present
|
||||
});
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Plot Methods
|
||||
------------
|
||||
|
||||
The Plot object returned from the plot function has some methods you
|
||||
can call:
|
||||
|
||||
- clearSelection()
|
||||
|
||||
Clear the selection rectangle.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- setSelection(ranges, preventEvent)
|
||||
|
||||
Set the selection rectangle. The passed in ranges is on the same
|
||||
form as returned in the "plotselected" event. If the selection
|
||||
mode is "x", you should put in either an xaxis (or x2axis) object,
|
||||
if the mode is "y" you need to put in an yaxis (or y2axis) object
|
||||
and both xaxis/x2axis and yaxis/y2axis if the selection mode is
|
||||
"xy", like this:
|
||||
|
||||
setSelection({ xaxis: { from: 0, to: 10 }, yaxis: { from: 40, to: 60 } });
|
||||
|
||||
setSelection will trigger the "plotselected" event when called. If
|
||||
you don't want that to happen, e.g. if you're inside a
|
||||
"plotselected" handler, pass true as the second parameter.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- highlight(series, datapoint)
|
||||
|
||||
Highlight a specific datapoint in the data series. You can either
|
||||
specify the actual objects, e.g. if you got them from a
|
||||
"plotclick" event, or you can specify the indices, e.g.
|
||||
highlight(1, 3) to highlight the fourth point in the second series.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- unhighlight(series, datapoint)
|
||||
|
||||
Remove the highlighting of the point, same parameters as highlight.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- setData(data)
|
||||
|
||||
You can use this to reset the data used. Note that axis scaling,
|
||||
ticks, legend etc. will not be recomputed (use setupGrid() to do
|
||||
that). You'll probably want to call draw() afterwards.
|
||||
|
||||
You can use this function to speed up redrawing a plot if you know
|
||||
that the axes won't change. Put in the new data with
|
||||
setData(newdata) and call draw() afterwards, and you're good to
|
||||
go.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- setupGrid()
|
||||
|
||||
Recalculate and set axis scaling, ticks, legend etc.
|
||||
|
||||
Note that because of the drawing model of the canvas, this
|
||||
function will immediately redraw (actually reinsert in the DOM)
|
||||
the labels and the legend, but not the actual tick lines because
|
||||
they're drawn on the canvas. You need to call draw() to get the
|
||||
canvas redrawn.
|
||||
|
||||
- draw()
|
||||
|
||||
Redraws the canvas.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
There are also some members that let you peek inside the internal
|
||||
workings of Flot which in some cases is useful. Note that if you change
|
||||
something in the objects returned, you're changing the objects used by
|
||||
Flot to keep track of its state, so be careful.
|
||||
|
||||
- getData()
|
||||
|
||||
Returns an array of the data series currently used on normalized
|
||||
form with missing settings filled in according to the global
|
||||
options. So for instance to find out what color Flot has assigned
|
||||
to the data series, you could do this:
|
||||
|
||||
var series = plot.getData();
|
||||
for (var i = 0; i < series.length; ++i)
|
||||
alert(series[i].color);
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- getAxes()
|
||||
|
||||
Gets an object with the axes settings as { xaxis, yaxis, x2axis,
|
||||
y2axis }. Various things are stuffed inside an axis object, e.g.
|
||||
you could use getAxes().xaxis.ticks to find out what the ticks are
|
||||
for the xaxis.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- getCanvas()
|
||||
|
||||
Returns the canvas used for drawing in case you need to hack on it
|
||||
yourself. You'll probably need to get the plot offset too.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- getPlotOffset()
|
||||
|
||||
Gets the offset that the grid has within the canvas as an object
|
||||
with distances from the canvas edges as "left", "right", "top",
|
||||
"bottom". I.e., if you draw a circle on the canvas with the center
|
||||
placed at (left, top), its center will be at the top-most, left
|
||||
corner of the grid.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user