The Scientific Graph Control is very similar to the Graph but displays information which is measured against both the horizontal and vertical axes. This component is mostly used for technical type information where data-sets contain both Y and X axis components and each data-point is assigned its own independent X and Y value. This allows for unequally spaced graphics as well as for graphics that can form any complex shape. See YData and XData. See example 100 in demo for information on creating a simple Scientific Graph Control .

Like the Graph control, the Scientific Graph control has horizontal and vertical scrolling capabilities. A difference between the Graph and Scientific Graph is that the Graph horizontally pans (n) amount of data-points whereas the Scientific Graph horizontally pans (n) percentage of the graph's x axis range. See ScrollingHorzZoom.

Similar to the Graph, the Scientific Graph can also handle serially formatted date/time values. Given serially formatted date/time data, the Scientific Graph will replace the normal numeric x axis scale with a linear date/time calendar scale. The structure of this scale will be dependent on the range of time displayed. This allows the user to zoom into a graph and always have a grid that best suits the time-range shown. ProEssentials date/time handling can manage centuries to seconds. The Scientific Graphs date/time handling is for continuous type scales which will show Saturdays, Sundays, and all hours of the day. For discontinuous time scales you will want to use the Graph controls date/time feature. See DateTimeMode.  Within the demo, see examples 106 and 016.

Since the date/time format uses the fractional portion to represent the time (percentage of day), double-precision data is required for time accuracy. ProEssentials can handle data-storage either as double-precision (8 bytes) or single-precision (4 bytes). XDataII stores double-precision x-data and XData stores single-precision x-data. Likewise, YDataII stores double-precision y-data and YData stores single-precision y-data. You will use UsingXDataII and UsingYDataII to tell ProEssentials if single or double precision is being used. Double precision Y-data is also available for the Graph control.

The Scientific Graph Customization Dialog allows the user to customize the Scientific Graph component and is very similar to the Graph components customization dialog. The only difference is that the Points tab is not supported for the Scientific Graph.

Include Data Labels

This checkbox controls whether data labels are placed next to data points. The labels have the number of decimal positions specified by the Numeric Precision radio group. See AllowDataLabels and GraphDataLabels.

Plot Style

The Scientific Graph component offers the following plotting methods: Line, Bar, Point/Scatter, Area, Points plus Best-Fit-Line, Points plus Best-Fit-Curve, Points plus Line, Points plus Spline, Spline, High-Low Line, High-Low Bar, High-Low-Close, Open-High-Low-Close, Box Plot/Candlestick, Bubble, Step, and Ribbon styles. See PlottingMethod.

3D

The 3D setting enables a 3D Drop Shadow or 3D effect. Only Bars and Areas will show the 3D effect. Bars, Areas, Points, Lines, CandleSticks and Box Plots will show a Drop Shadow.