Shinobi Chart LineSeries Swift/Obj-C

Question

I am new to Shinobi Tools and I have a set of points, which I want to connect to a line series. I saw that shinobi offers this function as SChartLineSeries. Could somebody be that nice and explain it to me:D? I really don't get the documentation. A code sample would be nice!!

This is What I currently have

This is what I want to achieve. I have 5 x- and y-Values. Those shouldn't be connected with straight lines. KEYWORD: Spline

Answer 1

Did you read this: https://www.shinobicontrols.com/ios/shinobicharts/quickstartguide? Quite good in fact, but their page is not so user friendly and at first I had troubles to find it.

The below solution is in Objective-C but it should be straightforward to translate it to Swift.

In short: Firstly import the framework:

#import <ShinobiCharts/ShinobiChart.h> 

Then create the chart object and the axes:

// in viewDidLoad
ShinobiChart* _chart;
_chart.xAxis = [[SChartNumberAxis alloc] init];
_chart.yAxis = [[SChartNumberAxis alloc] init];
_chart = [[ShinobiChart alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];

[self.view addSubview:_chart];

Then implement the datasource <SChartDatasource>:

// in viewDidLoad
_chart.datasource = self;

- (int)numberOfSeriesInSChart:(ShinobiChart *)chart {
    return 2;
} 

-(SChartSeries *)sChart:(ShinobiChart *)chart seriesAtIndex:(int)index {
SChartLineSeries *lineSeries = [[SChartLineSeries alloc] init];
    if (index == 0) {
        lineSeries.title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"y = cos(x)"];
    } else {
        lineSeries.title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"y = sin(x)"];
    }

    return lineSeries;
}

- (int)sChart:(ShinobiChart *)chart numberOfDataPointsForSeriesAtIndex:(int)seriesIndex {
    return 100;
}

- (id<SChartData>)sChart:(ShinobiChart *)chart dataPointAtIndex:(int)dataIndex forSeriesAtIndex:(int)seriesIndex {

    SChartDataPoint *datapoint = [[SChartDataPoint alloc] init];

    // both functions share the same x-values
    double xValue = dataIndex / 10.0;
    datapoint.xValue = [NSNumber numberWithDouble:xValue];

    // compute the y-value for each series
    if (seriesIndex == 0) {
        datapoint.yValue = [NSNumber numberWithDouble:cosf(xValue)];
    } else {
        datapoint.yValue = [NSNumber numberWithDouble:sinf(xValue)];
    }

    return datapoint;
}

Disclaimer: The datasource implementation is from the quick start guide to which link I've presented above.

-- edit --

To curve the graph you need to add more datapoints by yourself (calculate the value and set more than 5 points). Please see the discussion on Shinobi Chart support forum: https://www.shinobicontrols.com/forum/shinobicontrols/2015/6/spline-line-chart.