XTdb feature request

[rnaleonard]

It's an XTension/XTdb fun-filled feature focused festival this weekend.  Trying out the new graphing styles and it looks like a combination of things addresses all my requests below.  I am re-chunking my motion graphs to have 6 units per graph.  I can semi-logically find categories that match the 6 binary limit so that works for me.  Extra lines can now be hidden so that works.  And here is my workaround for getting the graphs to line up.  Every graph gets a binary unit.  Most have at least one but I will add one even if it doesn't actually need one. I think I will make a pseudo that never turns on and use that with the type set to Filled when On.  That way it will not appear on the graph.   Then I unclick the Autosize Binary Labels checkbox and set the width to the same number on each graph (90).  Long enough that it fits all my labels.  Now all the times line up vertically.  I also changed all the graph widths to Extended which gets back to the 2 hour scale across the graph.  Looks good.  Next I need to take out all the count pseudos that were formerly graphed and just go with the actual motion sensor unit. That will remove a bunch of pseudos and code that fired on each motion hit.

I am glad that the "hotness" of the graphing engine sets the stage for all this - but I know that it would not happen unless James wrangled that into something we can use.

So, Thanks James!

Rich

> On Sep 24, 2015, at 8:13 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 24, 2015, at 6:50 AM, rnaleonard <rnaleonard at rcn.com> wrote:
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>> 	• It would be great to have the ability to include more than 6 units on the binary graphs.  12 would work for me.
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> Yeesh ;) I’d have to adjust the width and height of the binary sections based on how many you created or had. Or perhaps just offer 2 ranges based on the height of the graph. I’ll see about doing something with this, but it wont be in tomorrows beta.
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>> 	• Graph lines in general seem darker than previous version.  Lighter seems to work better (at least for me).
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> I haven’t changed graph lines at all, but I did discover that I was drawing the Y Axis lines twice, even if there isn’t a second Y axis. That might have made them darker? I dont think it’s additive, the one just overwrote the other completely but maybe… The beta tomorrow gives you the option of hiding them completely.
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>> 	• In X2Web all the prior graphs stacked up nicely with the times aligned.  With the labels outside the binary graph, the graph moves over and the alignment is lost. Not sure what the solution to this might be.
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> The alignment of the various sections is the really hard part of making these things look decent. The beta tomorrow fixes the goofy offset for the binary labels but makes it completely dynamic based on the length of the label. Perhaps an option to not autosize it but let you enter a width? Then you can standardize them and they would just clip if it were longer? I might be able to add that to the autoscale options pane without making things too confusing. So it could autosize if you wished, or you could specify a specific width for the margin in which to hold the labels.
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> Layout and such I’m very open to suggestions for. The new hotness of the underlying graphing engine lets me do just about anything, but doesn’t do it for me nor doe sit necessarily make it easy. So I have to think of something before I can set about doing it, there isn’t just a make this graph look fantastic option. I generally debug and observe and tweak a hundred times before I ship anything anyway or all the graphs would look just like the examples that come with the engine… And they aren’t all that beautiful. So do please continue to think about layout options or things that would make them look and function better. I can’t implement something I hadn’t thought of.
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> Lots of other fun stuff in the beta tomorrow too ;) 
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> Thanks,
> 	James
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