ScaleType Enum

Contains the values used to specify the scale type for the argument and value data of data points.

Namespace: DevExpress.UI.Xaml.Charts

Assembly: DevExpress.UI.Xaml.Charts.v21.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Uwp.Controls

Declaration

C#

public enum ScaleType

VB.NET

Public Enum ScaleType

Members

Name	Description
Auto	A scale type is detected automatically based on the type of underlying data. This means that numerical data will be treated as numerical, date-time data as date-time, qualitative as qualitative values.
Numerical	Identifies the Numerical data scale. This means that data provided for the DataPointCollection.Points will be treated as numerical values, and will be shown on the axis as numbers (e.g., 100, 200, and 300).
DateTime	Identifies the DateTime data scale. This means that data provided for the DataPointCollection.Points will be treated as DateTime values, and will be shown on the axis as DateTime values (e.g., January, 2003, January, 2004, and January, 2005).
Qualitative	Identifies the Qualitative data scale. This means that data provided for the DataPointCollection.Points will be treated as qualitative values, and will be shown on the axis as textual representations (e.g., A, B, and C).

Related API Members

The following properties accept/return ScaleType values:

• DataMember.ScaleType
• DataPoint.ArgumentScaleType
• DataPoint.ValueScaleType
• DataPointCollection.ArgumentScaleType
• DataPointCollection.ValueScaleType

Remarks

The values listed by the ScaleType enumerator are used to set the DataPointCollection.ArgumentScaleType and DataPointCollection.ValueScaleType properties.