controlling and labelling major/minor ticks

[alyssa]

Hi again,

I'm manually creating an x axis that spans only from 0 to 1. Right now
it's automatically putting a major tick at .5 and labelling just that
one. I'd like it to place a major tick and label it every .2. Is this
possible?

I know I can enter these ticks manually, but I will be controlling the
axis using sliders later on, so if it's possible to control more
automatically by distance that would be helpful.

I tried using ticksDistance: .2 but it stopped putting ticks in after
2 ticks.

Thanks in advance!
Alyssa

[michael]

Hi Alyssa,

you should try the attribute minTicksDistance. Its value intepreted as
an amount of pixels determines how close two major ticks may get
before one of them disappears.


michael

[alyssa]

Still not working.

xaxis = brd.create('axis', [[0, 0],[1, 0]], {ticksDistance:.2,
minTicksDistance:0});

gives me an x-axis from 0 to 1 with only 2 ticks...any idea what's
going on?

~Alyssa

[michael]

This is a bug. It is fixed now and this will work as expected after
the upcoming release:

xaxis = board.create('axis', [[0, 0], [1, 0]], {
ticks: {
ticksDistance: .2,
insertTicks: false
}
});

Please note that the attributes for the ticks on the axis will be
bundled in the ticks attribute. "insertTicks" set to false prevents
the automatic tick adjustments.


michael

[alyssa]

thanks again!

[alyssa]

when is the upcoming release due around?

[michael]

I can't say exactly but there should be another release candidate
available within the next few days.

[alyssa]

awesome! thanks a lot.