Qt 5.13 | Qt Charts | Qml Customizations

Qt Charts | Commercial or GPLv3

# Qml Customizations

This application shows you how to customize different visual properties of a ChartView and series.

This example shows a wheel of fortune by customizing a pie series.

#### Running the Example

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#### Customizing Chart Views

First we create the ChartView and a couple of series.

      ChartView {
          id: chartView
          anchors.fill: parent
          title: "Wheel of fortune"
          legend.visible: false
          antialiasing: true

          PieSeries {
              id: wheelOfFortune
              horizontalPosition: 0.3
          }

          SplineSeries {
              id: splineSeries
          }

          ScatterSeries {
              id: scatterSeries
          }
      }

The application data is generated in Component.onCompleted of the main rectangle:

      Component.onCompleted: {
          __intervalCoefficient = Math.random() + 0.25;

          for (var i = 0; i < 20; i++)
              wheelOfFortune.append("", 1);

          var interval = 1;
          for (var j = 0; interval < 800; j++) {
              interval = __intervalCoefficient * j * j;
              splineSeries.append(j, interval);
          }
          chartView.axisX(scatterSeries).max = j;
          chartView.axisY(scatterSeries).max = 1000;
      }

The following customizations are done repeatedly with a timer. To highlight one of the pie slices at time we modify its exploded property:

      wheelOfFortune.at(index).exploded = false;
      __activeIndex++;
      index = __activeIndex % wheelOfFortune.count;
      wheelOfFortune.at(index).exploded = true;

Then an animation using a scatter series with one data point:

      scatterSeries.clear();
      scatterSeries.append(__activeIndex, interval);
      scatterSeries.color = Qt.tint(scatterSeries.color, "#05FF0000");
      scatterSeries.markerSize += 0.5;

When the wheel of fortune has stopped, we make the active slice blink by modifying its colors.

      // Switch the colors of the slice and the border
      wheelOfFortune.at(index).borderWidth = 2;
      switchColor = wheelOfFortune.at(index).borderColor;
      wheelOfFortune.at(index).borderColor = wheelOfFortune.at(index).color;
      wheelOfFortune.at(index).color = switchColor;

Example project @ code.qt.io