Animating Series Points

• May 22, 2020
• 2 minutes to read

This topic explains how to animate series points and customize their animation settings.

Overview

Series points can be animated using either built-in or custom animation effects.

The built-in animation can also be applied to a chart's series if the given series supports this animation.

To obtain the list of all animations that are available for a given series, use the Series.GetPredefinedSeriesAnimationKinds and Series.GetPredefinedPointAnimationKinds methods.

Customization

To enable the built-in animation, set the ChartControl.EnableAnimation property to true.

To specify custom animation for series points, assign an animation effect to the PointAnimation property of the series (e.g., AreaSeries2D.PointAnimation).

The image below shows the SlideFromTop animation effect for the Side-by-Side Stacked Bar chart.

Example

The following tutorials show how to animate a chart's series points.

• How to: Animate Series Points Using the Built-in Animation Effect
• How to: Animate a Chart Series and Its Points

The table below lists properties that can be used to customize the animation effect for series points.

Member	Description
SeriesPointAnimationBase.PointDelay	Specifies the delay sustained when animating the series points. This is a dependency property.
SeriesPointAnimationBase.PointOrder	Defines the order in which series points are animated. This is a dependency property.
AnimationBase.BeginTime	Specifies the time when the animation is started. This is a dependency property.
AnimationBase.Duration	Specifies the duration of the animation. This is a dependency property.
AnimationBase.EasingFunction	Specifies the easing function for the animation. This is a dependency property.