data labels overlap with each other for the stackValues option in bar chart

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Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 9, 2016 at 6:19am

Grasshope,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.  I had imagined that most people would use the dataLabePt of a stacked chart like this to label the sum of all energy use or energy load but I could be wrong.  I can put in a tree branch of points for the different stacked bars if you think it would help.  In the meantime, you can just use the native GH "Move" component to create two more copies of the points to align with the input data.

-Chris

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 9, 2016 at 7:47am

Thank you, Chris!

It will be great if the value label is positioned besides the color "patch" with which it associate.

Meanwhile, Antonello's suggestion below is also a nice workaround.

- Ji

Permalink Reply by Antonello Di Nunzio on August 9, 2016 at 6:37am

Hi Grasshope and Chris,

This is a possible way to deal the overlap of the numbers.

You could use "_labelPtsOffset_" input of the latest version of the bar chart component and you should use a couple of native components of GH to manage the lists.

Best

Antonello

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 9, 2016 at 7:53am

Thanks, Antonello!

However, it seems the latest bar chart component is not able to read the output variable directly from the latest read ep results component, what I got is some kind of line chart:

Other than that, you suggestion is working nicely:

However, the non-stackValue option is still not working in my workflow, hope you and Chris can kindly advise (see the demo file attached):

Thank you both!

-Ji

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• energy_balance_barChart_issue_v022.gh, 701 KB

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 9, 2016 at 8:23am

Antonello,

I like your method.  It's much more grasshoppery.  Given these solutions, I might make the implementation of more points on the chart a lower priority for the time being.

Ji,

1) The monthly bar chart displays hourly results as lines.  Request monthly outputs from the simulation to get a bar chart.

2) Read the orange balloon on the bar chart component.  It is telling you that all of the values of one of your lists are 0 and that you should use legendpar to correctly scale the Y-Axis. More info is here:

https://github.com/mostaphaRoudsari/ladybug/issues/276

-Chris