Coloring the Axes on the BKGraphs – Together and Individually
A developer came and talked to me today about the colors of the default second Y axes when using VantagePoint 4.6.4 (the last one I have that allowed this feature) as it defaulted to lime green. Not the ideal choice, I'll agree. So I dug into the code and realized that in my setAxesColor(Color) method on the BKBaseGraph, I set the colors of the X and Y axes, as well as the second X and second Y axes - but only if it was a Hi/Low/Vol graph. That was the mistake.
So I changed it to always set the second Y and then optionally the second X if it was the Hi/Low/Vol graph. Works great. After that, I got to thinking that it'd be even nicer if it allowed the axes to be set independently, as well as collectively. So I wrote the methods and added the applet param tag decoding to deal with the axes independently, and then collapsed the code into a more manageable set.
In the end, I have a lot better coverage of the capabilities of the graphs, and still defaults to something very reasonable for the quick graphs that will be used 90% of the time. Nice.