Chart

The Chart class offers a built-in and ready to use control to easily display a graphical representation of data. Chart supports five type of graphs representation: Bar, Pie, Line, Area and Scatter.

Chart

Best practices

Select the chart type that represents better your data. You can change a chart from one type to another—for example, from a pie chart to a bar chart, or from a line chart to an area chart.

How to use

Drop a Chart control from the object panel to a Window
Use the Chart Inspector to customize its properties like Type, Colors, and DataSet

`Chart` inspector The inspector where the Chart class can be configured.

`Chart` types The Chart types.

Example

Drop a Button control from the object panel to a Window
Open the Code Editor
Select the Action item inside the Events area and write your custom code in the Code Editor
```
Chart1.chartType = ChartType.Area
```

Most important properties

Several UI aspects can be configured in the Chart class but the chartType and dataSet are the most commons to be configured.

chartType: The graphical representation type
dataSet: The DataSet object provides information that Chart needs to construct its content.

References

Chart class reference contains a complete list of properties and methods that can be used to customize a Chart object.