Repeat Animations on SfChart in UWP

[Jeffrey Haines]

I have a BarSeries with an animation enabled on it. I'd like that animation to repeat itself when the itemsource is updated. Is there a way to trigger this in code or xaml?

[Devi Aruna Maharasi Murugan]

Hi Jeffrey, 

  

Thanks for contacting Syncfusion Support. 

  

We have achieved your requirement (animating BarSeries when its ItemsSource gets updated), by calling the Animate() of CustomBarSeries, after the ItemsSource has updated and it can achieved as shown in the below code snippet, 

  

CustomBarSeries.cs 

 

  public class CustomBarSeries: BarSeries 

    { 

        private Storyboard sb; 

 

        public void Animate() 

        { 

            int i = 0; 

          

            if (sb != null) 

                sb.Stop(); 

            sb = new Storyboard(); 

            string path = !IsTransposed ?      

                 "(UIElement.RenderTransform).(ScaleTransform.ScaleX)" :  

                 "(UIElement.RenderTransform).(ScaleTransform.ScaleY)"; 

            string adornTransPath = !IsTransposed ?  

                    "(UIElement.RenderTransform).(TranslateTransform.X)" :    

                    "(UIElement.RenderTransform).(TranslateTransform.Y)"; 

           foreach (ChartSegment segment in Segments) 

            { 

                double elementSize = 0d; 

                var element = (FrameworkElement)segment.GetRenderedVisual(); 

                if (segment is EmptyPointSegment && (!(EmptyPointStyle ==   

                      EmptyPointStyle.Interior) ||  

                      EmptyPointStyle == EmptyPointStyle.SymbolAndInterior)) 

                    elementSize = !IsTransposed ?   

                    ((EmptyPointSegment)segment).EmptyPointSymbolWidth :  

                            ((EmptyPointSegment)segment).EmptyPointSymbolHeight; 

                else 

                    elementSize = !IsTransposed ? ((BarSegment)segment).XData :  

                             ((BarSegment)segment).YData; 

                if (!double.IsNaN(elementSize) && !double.IsNaN(YValues[i])) 

                { 

                    element.RenderTransform = new ScaleTransform(); 

                    if (YValues[i] < 0 && !IsTransposed) 

                        element.RenderTransformOrigin = new Point(1, 1); 

                    else if (YValues[i] > 0 && IsTransposed) 

                        element.RenderTransformOrigin = new Point(1, 1); 

 

                    DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames keyFrames1 = new  

                                DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames(); 

                    SplineDoubleKeyFrame keyFrame1 = new SplineDoubleKeyFrame(); 

                    keyFrame1.KeyTime = KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0)); 

                    keyFrame1.Value = 0; 

                    keyFrames1.KeyFrames.Add(keyFrame1); 

                    keyFrame1 = new SplineDoubleKeyFrame(); 

                    keyFrame1.KeyTime = KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(AnimationDuration); 

 

                    KeySpline keySpline1 = new KeySpline(); 

                    keySpline1.ControlPoint1 = new Point(0.64, 0.84); 

 

                    keySpline1.ControlPoint2 = new Point(0, 1);  

                    keyFrame1.KeySpline = keySpline1; 

                    keyFrames1.KeyFrames.Add(keyFrame1); 

                    keyFrame1.Value = 1; 

 

                    keyFrames1.EnableDependentAnimation = true; 

                    Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(keyFrames1, path); 

 

                    Storyboard.SetTarget(keyFrames1, element); 

                    sb.Children.Add(keyFrames1); 

                   

                } 

                i++; 

            } 

            sb.Begin(); 

        } 

 

    } 

  

MainWindow.xaml 

 

  <Grid > 

            <Grid.DataContext> 

                <local:ViewModel/> 

            </Grid.DataContext> 

 

            <Grid.RowDefinitions> 

                <RowDefinition/> 

                <RowDefinition Height="100"/> 

            </Grid.RowDefinitions> 

 

            <chart:SfChart Margin="10" x:Name="chart"> 

 

                <chart:SfChart.PrimaryAxis> 

                    <chart:CategoryAxis/> 

                </chart:SfChart.PrimaryAxis> 

 

                <chart:SfChart.SecondaryAxis> 

                    <chart:NumericalAxis/> 

                </chart:SfChart.SecondaryAxis> 

 

                <local:CustomBarSeries  

                             EnableAnimation="True"  

                              x:Name="bar"> 

                </local:CustomBarSeries> 

            </chart:SfChart> 

 

 

            <Button Click="add_Click" Grid.Row="1" 

                    Content="Add Data"/> 

 

      

    </Grid> 

  

MainWindow.cs 

 

private async void add_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) 

        { 

            var count = (bar.ItemsSource as ObservableCollection<Model>).Count - 1; 

            var itemsSource = bar.ItemsSource as ObservableCollection<Model>; 

            itemsSource.Add(new Model() { XValue = itemsSource[count].XValue + 1,  

                            YValue = rd.Next(20, 45) }); 

            if (bar.EnableAnimation) 

               await Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, bar.Animate); 

        } 

  

  

The demo sample can be downloaded from below link, 

  

Sample: BarAnimation__UWP 

  

Regards, 

Devi