Creating custom charts

[Richard Bair]

I think it would be good to file some feature requests for specific API / functionality that you'd like to see added. There are a lot of things here that we just weren't ready to commit to forever, and since the code is open source you at least can copy/paste a big chunk of it if needed and that still leaves us with some flexibility to change our implementation in the future without breaking you. So while copy/paste is not the nicest, it is a lot nicer than us committing to API prematurely. However if you have specific use cases that need to be supported, we can start doing the planning to see how we can accommodate that.

Thanks
Richard

On Sep 6, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to create a custom chart: a XYBarChart. That is a chart that
> won't have the same limitation as the BarChart which only allows you to
> specify a ValueAxis/CategoryAxis pair.
> In doing this I was looking at the code for BarChart and copying as much as
> I can from its implementation. The problem is that it uses a lot of package
> private methods and fields from XYChart.
> I think the framework chart implementations should be less reliant on
> package private methods because if that happens then programmers trying to
> create their own charts will probably need to rely on those same methods
> which of course they won't be able to call.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pedro Duque Vieira