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FinancialSeriesViewBase.LineThickness Property

Gets or sets the thickness of the lines used to draw stocks or candle sticks within the financial view.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraCharts

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraCharts.v18.2.dll

Declaration

[XtraSerializableProperty]
[XtraChartsLocalizableCategory(XtraChartsCategory.Layout)]
public int LineThickness { get; set; }

Property Value

Type Description
Int32

An integer value that specifies the line thickness.

Example

This example demonstrates how to create a ChartControl with a series of the StockSeriesView type, and add this chart to a form at runtime. Before proceeding with this example, first create a Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio, and include all necessary assemblies to the References list of your project.

Then, add the following code to the Form.Load event handler.

Note that you can exclude non-working days (weekends and holidays) from an axis range, via the AxisBase.WorkdaysOnly and AxisBase.WorkdaysOptions properties. And, to learn which instruments for financial analysis are available in XtraCharts, refer to Indicators.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraCharts;
// ...
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
            // Create a new chart.
            ChartControl stockChart = new ChartControl();

            // Create a stock series.
            Series series1 = new Series("Series 1", ViewType.Stock);

            // Specify the date-time argument scale type for the series,
            // as it is qualitative, by default.
            series1.ArgumentScaleType = ScaleType.DateTime;

            // Add points to it.
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 1),
                new object[] { 24.00, 25.00, 25.00, 24.875 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 2),
                new object[] { 23.625, 25.125, 24.00, 24.875 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 3),
                new object[] { 26.25, 28.25, 26.75, 27.00 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 6),
                new object[] { 26.50, 27.875, 26.875, 27.25 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 7),
                new object[] { 26.375, 27.50, 27.375, 26.75 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 8),
                new object[] { 25.75, 26.875, 26.75, 26.00 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 9),
                new object[] { 25.75, 26.75, 26.125, 26.25 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 10),
                new object[] { 25.75, 26.375, 26.375, 25.875 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 13),
                new object[] { 24.875, 26.125, 26.00, 25.375 }));
            series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 14),
                new object[] { 25.125, 26.00, 25.625, 25.75 }));

            // Add the series to the chart.
            stockChart.Series.Add(series1);

            // Access the view-type-specific options of the series.
            StockSeriesView myView = (StockSeriesView)series1.View;

            myView.LineThickness = 2;
            myView.LevelLineLength = 0.25;

            // Specify the series reduction options.
            myView.ReductionOptions.ColorMode = ReductionColorMode.OpenToCloseValue;
            myView.ReductionOptions.Level = StockLevel.Close;
            myView.ReductionOptions.Visible = true;

            // Access the chart's diagram.
            XYDiagram diagram = ((XYDiagram)stockChart.Diagram);

            // Access the type-specific options of the diagram.
            diagram.AxisY.WholeRange.MinValue = 22;

            // Exclude weekends from the X-axis range,
            // to avoid gaps in the chart's data.
            diagram.AxisX.DateTimeScaleOptions.WorkdaysOnly = true;

            // Hide the legend (if necessary).
            stockChart.Legend.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;

            // Add a title to the chart (if necessary).
            stockChart.Titles.Add(new ChartTitle());
            stockChart.Titles[0].Text = "Stock Chart";

            // Add the chart to the form.
            stockChart.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
            this.Controls.Add(stockChart);
        }
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