Creating custom charts

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

Ok Richard.

Right now I have to do more than copy paste. I have to use reflection to
call private package and private fields/methods. Copy pasting would be
fine, I think that having to use reflection to circumvent the
fields/methods protection level is a no go.

I'm hacking up a XYBarChart, when I'm finished I'll look at the code and
see what I think is needed or nice to have.

Thanks, best regards,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>


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Pedro Duque Vieira