Making Great Progress on the BKit XY Line Graph
One of the types of graphs that we have wanted to make available in BKit with VantagePoint is the true x-y line graph. Currently, the line graph assumes that all x-coordinates are shared across all data sets and that they are uniformly increasing. This means that there's no way to really properly display a step function... or anything that might "double back" on itself like a hysteresis loop.
A while back, I asked Gordon at VantagePoint if there weren't some way to do this, and if not, could it be added? He responded that yes, indeed, there was - the TowDimCrossScatterViewer. Basically, it's meant to be able to plot multiple scatter graphs where each set of points is a data set. But if you go in afterwards to the data points and tell them to connect the dots, you can actually get a graph. Like this: (sort of)
The problem here is that I'm trying to display the square wave on the secondary axis, which was Y in the previous graphs, but it now seems to be X, and that's not really what we're going for. So it's close, but I still need to ask Gordon what I need to do to get the secondary axis to be the secondary Y axis. We'll see what he says, but it's getting really close. Exciting stuff.
It's exciting to see that there is clearly the new ability to create non-functional representations. This has been something that I really wished we had had a long time ago. Well... better late than never.