JavaScript/jQuery RangeSelector Options

A background is an area that is painted in a specified color. You can change this color by setting the background's color property and by displaying an image specified by the image configuration object. In addition, you can superimpose a chart on a background by specifying the chart configuration object. The chart will be shown with the specified background color. To show the chart without a background, set the background's visible property to false.

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The RangeSelector widget can be created with a chart as the background. In this instance, the range selector can be used for selecting the required range on the chart. At the same time, the Chart widget can be displayed near the range selector and zoomed or scrolled according to the range selected in the range selector. For details on how to synchronize these two widgets, refer to the Zooming and Scrolling topic.

To provide a data source for the chart located in the background, set the dataSource property of the rangeSelectorOptions root configuration object and define the series within the chart configuration object. Set the chart series' argumentField and valueField properties to the corresponding data source fields. The argument field will also be used to create the range selector's scale.

The color specified for the range selector's background will also be visible in the chart's background by default. You can change it using the color property of the background configuration object. To prohibit the display of the background color, set the background's visible property to false.

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Set this property to the color of the parent page element. Certain RangeSelector elements will use this color to coordinate with the page. For instance, the RangeSelector's shutters use this color, but you can change this color to a custom color.

Use this property in the following cases:

• to initialize a scale with data from one of the data source fields. Set the dataSourceField property to specify which field to use as the source for scale values.
• to plot a chart using data from the data source fields. In this case, define the chart series by setting their argumentField and valueField properties. The range selector's scale will represent the chart's argument axis. It is created using data from the field specified by the chart's argumentField property.

The maximum and minimum values of the field specified by the argumentField/dataSourceField property are used as the scale's start and end values. The major tick interval is determined automatically. You can also set the interval using the scale's tickInterval and minorTickInterval properties.

For details on how to configure a data source, refer to the Data Binding topic.

See Also

• dataSourceField
• getDataSource()
• Data Layer - Overview
• Data Layer - Data Source Examples

Use this property to initialize a scale with data from one of the data source's fields. Set the name of the required data source field to this property.

You can configure this option in an ASP.NET MVC Control as follows:

@(Html.DevExtreme().WidgetName()
    .ElementAttr("class", "class-name")
    // ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(new {
        @id = "elementId",
        @class = "class-name"
    })
    // ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(new Dictionary<string, object>() {
        { "id", "elementId" },
        { "class", "class-name" }
    })

)

@(Html.DevExtreme().WidgetName() _
    .ElementAttr("class", "class-name")
    ' ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(New With {
        .id = "elementId",
        .class = "class-name"
    })
    ' ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(New Dictionary(Of String, Object) From {
        { "id", "elementId" },
        { "class", "class-name" }
    })
)

These features allow a user to export your widget into a document or print it. When exporting is enabled, the "Exporting/Printing" button appears in the widget. A click on it invokes a drop-down menu that lists exporting and printing commands. The following formats are supported for exporting into: PNG, PDF, JPEG, SVG and GIF.

See Also

• exportTo(fileName, format)
• print()
• DevExpress.viz.exportFromMarkup(markup, options)

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The indent is used to precisely align scales of several widgets arranged vertically. This is the distance between the container edge and the range selector's scale (see the image below).

Note that if the indent is set very small, the Scale Labels will be cut.

When the widget visualizes local data, loading is instant. But when the widget is bound to a remote data source, loading may takes a considerable amount of time. To keep the viewer's attention, the widget can display a loading indicator.

To activate the loading indicator, assign true to the loadingIndicator.show option. Once data is loaded, the loading indicator will be hidden automatically.

See Also

• showLoadingIndicator()
• hideLoadingIndicator()

See Also

• onExporting
• onFileSaving

See Also

• onExported
• onFileSaving

See Also

• onExporting
• onExported

When an error or warning appears, the widget notifies you by passing a message to the browser console. This message contains the ID of the incident, a brief description, and a link to the Errors and Warnings section where further information about this incident can be found. However, you can handle errors and warnings in the way that you require. To do this, implement a callback function performing the required actions and assign it to the onIncidentOccurred option. Within this function, you can use information about the incident that occurred. This information can be accessed from the target field of the object passed to the callback function as a parameter. This information includes the following.

• id
  Contains the ID of the incident. The full list of IDs can be found in the Errors and Warnings section.
• type
  Contains the type of the incident. This field equals "error" for errors or "warning" for warnings.
• args
  Contains the argument of the incident's message. The content of this field varies greatly, depending on the incident. For example, it may contain the name of the data source field that was not specified correctly, or the name of the option that was not set properly.
• text
  Contains the text passed to the browser console. This text includes the content of the args field, if there are any.
• widget
  Contains the name of the widget that produced the error or warning.
• version
  Contains the currently used version of the DevExtreme library.

You cannot access widget elements in this handler because it is executed before they are ready. Use the onDrawn handler instead.

When implementing the handling function, use the object passed to it as the parameter. Among fields of this object, you can find old and new start and end range values.

The onValueChanged function can be called when a user moves a slider or after he/she has stopped moving it. To specify the required mode, use the behavior.callValueChanged option.

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See Also

• Handle Events: jQuery | Angular | AngularJS | Knockout | ASP.NET MVC

If you place the widget on a page that uses a tag modifying the path (<base>, <iframe>, etc.), some of the widget elements may get mixed up or disappear. To solve this problem, set the pathModified option to true.

See Also

• DevExpress.viz.refreshPaths()

When this option is set to true, the widget will be redrawn automatically in case the size of its parent window changes.

When this option is set to true, the widget text flows from right to left, and the layout of elements is reversed. To switch the entire application/site to the right-to-left representation, assign true to the rtlEnabled field of the object passed to the DevExpress.config(config) method.

DevExpress.config({
    rtlEnabled: true
});

To divide a scale, either set the dataSource property or the startValue and endValue properties. In the former case, the start and end values will be calculated based on the values provided by the data source field that is set by the dataSourceField property.

The scale's ticks are arranged automatically, based on the start and end values, so that the tick labels do not overlap each other. You can set a custom tick interval, add minor ticks and format tick labels. These and other scale options are available in the scale configuration object.

Shutters are used in the RangeSelector widget with the background (image or chart) to hide the non-selected range. When using shutters, the background area for a selected range is clearly visible, and the remaining area is hidden by the shutters.

The widget occupies its container's entire area by default. Use the size object to specify the widget's size if it should be different from that of its container. Assign 0 to size object's height and width options to hide the widget.

The range selector's sliders consist of a slider marker and a slider handle. You can drag a marker or a handle to change the selected range. To set the appearance options of the slider handles, use the sliderHandle configuration object. To customize the slider markers, use the sliderMarker configuration object.

When moving a slider, its marker displays the currently selected scale value. Use the sliderMarker object to set the required options for the range selector slider markers. For instance, you can format the markers' text, change the text font, or make the markers invisible.

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A theme is a widget configuration that gives the widget a distinctive appearance. Use can use one of the predefined themes or create a custom one. Changing the option values in the widget's configuration object overrides the theme's corresponding values.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the VizTheme enum. This enum accepts the following values: GenericLight, GenericDark, GenericContrast, GenericCarmine, GenericDarkMoon, GenericSoftBlue, GenericDarkViolet, GenericGreenMist, Android5Light, IOS7Default, Win10Black and Win10White.

The widget's title is a short text that usually indicates what is visualized. If you need to specify the title's text only, assign it directly to the title option. Otherwise, set this option to an object with the text and other fields specified.

The title can be accompanied by a subtitle elaborating on the visualized subject using the title.subtitle object.

By default, the selected range is the entire scale. To specify a different range to be selected initially, assign an array of two values - start and end - to the value option. Depending on the scale type, these values should be of Numeric, String or Date type.

When using AngularJS/Knockout, bind a scope property/observable value to the value option if you need to get or set this option at runtime. With jQuery only, use the getValue() and setValue(value) methods for the same purpose.

See Also

• onValueChanged
• behavior.callValueChanged