is_auto property

AxisBound.is_auto property

Returns a flag indicating that axis bound should be determined automatically.

@property
def is_auto(self) -> bool:
    ...

Examples

Shows how to set custom axis bounds.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)
chart_shape = builder.insert_chart(chart_type=aw.drawing.charts.ChartType.SCATTER, width=450, height=300)
chart = chart_shape.chart
# Clear the chart's demo data series to start with a clean chart.
chart.series.clear()
# Add a series with two decimal arrays. The first array contains the X-values,
# and the second contains corresponding Y-values for points in the scatter chart.
chart.series.add(series_name='Series 1', x_values=[1.1, 5.4, 7.9, 3.5, 2.1, 9.7], y_values=[2.1, 0.3, 0.6, 3.3, 1.4, 1.9])
# By default, default scaling is applied to the graph's X and Y-axes,
# so that both their ranges are big enough to encompass every X and Y-value of every series.
self.assertTrue(chart.axis_x.scaling.minimum.is_auto)
# We can define our own axis bounds.
# In this case, we will make both the X and Y-axis rulers show a range of 0 to 10.
chart.axis_x.scaling.minimum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(value=0)
chart.axis_x.scaling.maximum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(value=10)
chart.axis_y.scaling.minimum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(value=0)
chart.axis_y.scaling.maximum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(value=10)
self.assertFalse(chart.axis_x.scaling.minimum.is_auto)
self.assertFalse(chart.axis_y.scaling.minimum.is_auto)
# Create a line chart with a series requiring a range of dates on the X-axis, and decimal values for the Y-axis.
chart_shape = builder.insert_chart(chart_type=aw.drawing.charts.ChartType.LINE, width=450, height=300)
chart = chart_shape.chart
chart.series.clear()
dates = [datetime.datetime(1973, 5, 11), datetime.datetime(1981, 2, 4), datetime.datetime(1985, 9, 23), datetime.datetime(1989, 6, 28), datetime.datetime(1994, 12, 15)]
chart.series.add(series_name='Series 1', dates=dates, values=[3, 4.7, 5.9, 7.1, 8.9])
# We can set axis bounds in the form of dates as well, limiting the chart to a period.
# Setting the range to 1980-1990 will omit the two of the series values
# that are outside of the range from the graph.
chart.axis_x.scaling.minimum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(datetime=datetime.datetime(1980, 1, 1))
chart.axis_x.scaling.maximum = aw.drawing.charts.AxisBound(datetime=datetime.datetime(1990, 1, 1))
doc.save(file_name=ARTIFACTS_DIR + 'Charts.AxisBound.docx')

is_auto property

AxisBound.is_auto property

Examples

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