BarSeriesView.BarWidth Property

Specifies the width of bars in Bar series, as a fraction of axis units.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraCharts

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraCharts.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Charts

Declaration

C#

[XtraChartsLocalizableCategory(XtraChartsCategory.Layout)]
public double BarWidth { get; set; }

VB.NET

<XtraChartsLocalizableCategory(XtraChartsCategory.Layout)>
Public Property BarWidth As Double

Property Value

Type	Description
Double	A Double value that specifies the bar’s width in fractions of axis units, where an axis unit is the distance between two major values on the axis. This value should be greater than 0.

Remarks

The BarWidth property specifies the bar width for all Bar series, as a fraction of an axis measurement unit (the value that the NumericScaleOptions.MeasureUnit or DateTimeScaleOptions.MeasureUnit property specifies). This means that the distance is auto-adjusted when the chart is resized.

For 3D Bar series, the width of bars is specified via the Bar3DSeriesView.BarWidth property.

Example

This example demonstrates how to create a histogram chart with a given number of bins.

C#

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    // Load data to a chart.
    chartControl1.DataSource = LoadDataTableFromXml("..\\..\\Data\\CityWeather.xml", "CityWeather");
    Series series = new Series();
    series.ArgumentDataMember = "Temperature";
    SideBySideBarSeriesView view = series.View as SideBySideBarSeriesView;
    view.Border.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.True;
    view.BarWidth = 1;
    chartControl1.Series.Add(series);
    // Configure histogram options.
    XYDiagram diagram = chartControl1.Diagram as XYDiagram;
    NumericScaleOptions scaleOptions = diagram.AxisX.NumericScaleOptions;
    scaleOptions.AggregateFunction = AggregateFunction.Histogram;
    scaleOptions.ScaleMode = ScaleMode.Interval;
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.DivisionMode = IntervalDivisionMode.Count;
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.Count = 5;
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.GridLayoutMode = GridLayoutMode.GridAndLabelShifted;
    diagram.AxisX.Label.TextPattern = "{A:F0}°C";
    diagram.AxisX.GridLines.Visible = true;    
}
static DataTable LoadDataTableFromXml(string fileName, string tableName) {
    DataSet xmlDataSet = new DataSet();
    xmlDataSet.ReadXml(fileName);
    return xmlDataSet.Tables[tableName];
}

VB.NET

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    ' Load data to a chart.
    chartControl1.DataSource = LoadDataTableFromXml("..\..\Data\CityWeather.xml", "CityWeather")
    Dim series As Series = New Series()
    series.ArgumentDataMember = "Temperature"
    Dim view As SideBySideBarSeriesView = TryCast(series.View, SideBySideBarSeriesView)
    view.Border.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.[True]
    view.BarWidth = 1
    chartControl1.Series.Add(series)
    ' Configure histogram options.
    Dim diagram As XYDiagram = TryCast(chartControl1.Diagram, XYDiagram)
    Dim scaleOptions As NumericScaleOptions = diagram.AxisX.NumericScaleOptions
    scaleOptions.AggregateFunction = AggregateFunction.Histogram
    scaleOptions.ScaleMode = ScaleMode.Interval
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.DivisionMode = IntervalDivisionMode.Count
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.Count = 5
    scaleOptions.IntervalOptions.GridLayoutMode = GridLayoutMode.GridAndLabelShifted
    diagram.AxisX.Label.TextPattern = "{A:F0}°C"
    diagram.AxisX.GridLines.Visible = True
End Sub

Private Shared Function LoadDataTableFromXml(ByVal fileName As String, ByVal tableName As String) As DataTable
    Dim xmlDataSet As DataSet = New DataSet()
    xmlDataSet.ReadXml(fileName)
    Return xmlDataSet.Tables(tableName)
End Function

The following API members configure the histogram options:

Member	Description
ScaleGridOptionsBase.AggregateFunction	Gets or sets the value indicating the aggregate function that should be used to relieve data.
ScaleOptionsBase.ScaleMode	Gets or sets the scale mode for an axis.
NumericScaleOptions.IntervalOptions	Stores options for numeric axis when its ScaleMode is Interval.
NumericIntervalOptions.DivisionMode	Specifies how to divide axis scale into intervals.
NumericIntervalOptions.Count	Gets or sets the number of intervals when DivisionMode is Count.
NumericIntervalOptions.GridLayoutMode	Gets or sets the value that specifies the alignment of grid lines, major tickmarks and axis labels.

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the BarWidth property.

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C#

winforms-charts-create-stacked-bar-chart/CS/Series_StackedBarChart/Form1.cs#L31

StackedBarSeriesView view = (StackedBarSeriesView)chart.SeriesTemplate.View;
view.BarWidth = 0.8;

winforms-charts-create-a-side-by-side-stacked-bars/CS/SideBySideStackedBarChart/Form1.cs#L31

chart.SeriesTemplate.View = view;
view.BarWidth = 0.6;

VB.NET

winforms-charts-create-stacked-bar-chart/VB/Series_StackedBarChart/Form1.vb#L31

Dim view As StackedBarSeriesView = CType(chart.SeriesTemplate.View, StackedBarSeriesView)
view.BarWidth = 0.8
' Disable minor tickmarks on the x-axis:

winforms-charts-create-a-side-by-side-stacked-bars/VB/SideBySideStackedBarChart/Form1.vb#L33

chart.SeriesTemplate.View = view
view.BarWidth = 0.6
'Enable point labels and format their text.