I am trying to understand and implement the D3 reusable chart pattern.
See sample implementation.
Here the updatableChart is called after selecting the id '#updatableChart'.
Question 1:
If I want to adjust the height parameter by calling as below, in subsequent code, it duplicates the chart.
d3.select('#updatableChart')
.call(updatableChart.height(450));
How should I use this pattern and update the height without affecting the original chart ?
Question 2:
Now if I need another chart, say, under div id '#updatableChart2', I can still call and get the chart using code below.
d3.select('#updatableChart2')
.call(updatableChart)`
But when I try to adjust the height by simply saying updatableChart.height(500); it affects only the second chart. How can I be specific in choosing the chart instance to work on ?
Thank you.
Answer 1:
The reason the chart is drawn again, is because I am calling the updatableChart.height(450) within a D3 selection. Instead it should have been called simply as updatableChart.height(450), to adjust the height.
Answer 2:
The problem was that the same chart object is attached into different div elements.
If another chart is needed under a different div, then the original barchart() should have been instantiated into another copy, say var updatableChart2 = barChart() and used further.
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I have a number of graphs, for simplicity take this example on jsfiddle, where there is a brush-on graph, a bar chart keyed on time and a row chart keyed on some categories. In addition, I use the d3-tip library for the tooltips (in the link above a very simplified version of my tip).
In order to avoid the creation of a bar-row in a rowChart, I used the fake-group as outlined in the FAQ of dc-js (and here as well).
The fake group works well, not displaying the C category on the row chart.
However, if I brush on some months with 0 data, when I reset the filter (just click anywhere but the filtered region on the brushon chart), the d3-tip on the row chart disappears.
Notice the if the group is created without the fake-grouping-function, this problem does not arise.
Any explanation why this happens?
How to avoid this (without loosing the remove_empty_bins)?
Although you can use dc.js and d3.js interchangeably, and dc.js is intentionally a "leaky abstraction", some things will go better if you do them the idiomatic dc.js way.
I have two suggestions:
Apply your tooltips in response to dc.js events so that they will get reapplied when new graphical objects are created (or re-created).
Use chart.selectAll instead of d3.selectAll when modifying the charts.
Okay, #2 actually has no bearing on this question, but it does help scope the selects better so that it's harder for them to miss the chart or accidentally modify stuff elsewhere in the page.
Implementing #1 looks something like this:
month_chart.on('pretransition', function(chart) {
chart.selectAll('rect.bar').call(month_tip)
.on('mouseover', month_tip.show).on('mouseout', month_tip.hide);
});
loc_chart1.on('pretransition', function(chart) {
chart.selectAll('g.row').call(loc_tip)
.on('mouseover', loc_tip.show).on('mouseout', loc_tip.hide);
});
The pretransition event fires right after a render or redraw, so it's usually the best moment to manipulate dc's elements. Much better than just running the code globally. I like to set everything up, then call dc.renderAll(), then allow the renders and redraws to take care of themselves later on.
In particular, when those bars get added back in when remove_empty_bins stops removing them, these events will pick them up and re-tip them.
Fork of your fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gordonwoodhull/5feL3gko/4/
Could some one please suggest how to do column-drilldown with D3 JS library,
below example is from Hightchart,
http://www.highcharts.com/demo/column-drilldown
A complete code example for this problem is probably quite extensive, so I'll mostly keep to how you would approach it and assume you know enough of D3 to turn the concept into code.
Lets assume you have the functionality for drawing a general bar chart.
Part of that functionality would priobably be things like
Setting up your svg element and containers
Setting up your scales (one for x and one for y)
Adding axes based on the scales you have created
Adding your bars to the svg container
4.1 Make sure you have your data set available as an array
4.2 Create an enter selection for the available data and append rectelements
4.3 Update attributes like x, y for all your available bar nodes
4.4 Remove any nodes on your exit selection
Voila you have a simple bar chart. Nothing new in that and you can have a look at the code details here -> https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3885304
Now in order to do the drill down:
In order to avoid lots of code repetition it probably makes sense to separate the above steps into functions. So for example a setup function that just creates your svg and containers as well as your scales.
Important about the setup function is that you do not need to rerun it on drill through.
Second you will want an update function. This contains steps 3+, which you will need to rerun in order to update your charts on drill through.
One addition here would be adding functionality for updating your scale domain in the beginning (as your data changes on drill through and you want to reflect that in your scales).
Now that you have those two functions all you really need to do is:
Add a click handler to your axis labels or your bars (click on bars might be easier for now). You cans use d3's .on() function for that.
In that event you will want to subset your data by the value of the clicked bar (or get a new data set for the bar value depending on how your data is structured) and then run the update function we created above with the new data.
It could look something like this:
d3.selectAll('.bar-nodes')
.on('click', function(d) {
var updatedData = updateData(d);
updateChart(updatedData);
});
If anything is unclear some more specific questions would be good.
Hope that helps.
I am trying to modify Bullet Charts example of dimple.js with each bullet chart being in a child-svg of the parent-svg. Purpose of having individual svg for each bullet chart is to make their management (show/hide/remove) easier. Also, this makes the recursive definition of a chart complete - That is, a chart is contained by an svg.
The fiddle for the modified version is here....
As you can see, from 2nd chart onwards, on mouse hover, tool tips go out of place!!! Please note that, for child-svg, I've set the style overflow: visible without which tool-tips were not visible at all.
Want to know if I am missing anything in handling the attributes of child-svg elements or is it a bug in dimple.js. Also, please let me know if you know of any workaround.
Thanks.
One of the first questions I have is why do you want child svg elements? What are you trying to accomplish?
The only difference I see in your code and the example is the height / width swap at the top and the sub svg + bounds.
Keep in mind that the origin changes with each sub-svg. This might be why you are having trouble with the tool-tips. Maybe you have that worked into your add-bullet calls.
I think nagu has the right approach here if you really want separate svg elements.
In D3 I am working on customizing and adding to #Rengel's timeline (link shown in JS Fiddle.
I've successfully created a similar timeline based on tracks, and it also allows users to filter project data based on checkbox values. Each piece of data now has a tooltip, and there are letters from another dataset populating underneath the projects in the same svg container. Now finally I want to add a brush like this one - wrobstory's from the blocks website.
I have only recently started to work on brush events so I am very much a noob, which is why I am unsure how I am going wrong. There is a JS Fiddle I created at: https://jsfiddle.net/rootseire/2vq8028o/2/ which shows everything working before the brush gets called. When I select a section of the timeline, the brush appears, it calculates indexes and extent. But it changes the y state of the year and the year text then transitions down the page.
I have been trying to see why this is happening, but I think I need to step back from the code as it might be just that I am not referencing the correct element. Here is the code for when the mouse pointer drags over the interface:
vis.on('mousedown', function(){
brush_elm = vis.select(".brush").node();
new_click_event = new Event('mousedown');
new_click_event.pageX = d3.event.pageX;
new_click_event.clientX = d3.event.clientX;
new_click_event.pageY = d3.event.pageY;
new_click_event.clientY = d3.event.clientY;
brush_elm.dispatchEvent(new_click_event);
});
But I think it might have something to do with the .points selector. How can I make the brush target the x-axis, the project rectangles and the letters together?
Thanks in advance,
P
The expected behaviour of the chart is to change and show a different series, when a different option gets selected from the drop down. While changing, it does not animate, even though i have included the "animate" element in the options. Following is my code:
jsfiddle.net/7C53q/
I had this same problem. Finally, I tried re-using the same chart object for the second draw() call, and it worked. It makes sense, when you think about it: how's it supposed to know what the original data was, unless you pass in the chart object drawn with it (or something else containing the original data)?
If you look in the animate example, they create one chart object, then do the draw() in two separate functions, without re-creating the chart object. Please don't ask me why they don't mention this little fact.