FusionCharts for Flex > FusionWidgets and XML > Annotations > Line

Let us take a look at the Line Annotation here. A line annotation looks as under:

The XML to create the above line is:

<chart>

         ...

         <annotations>

            <annotationGroup id='Grp1' >

               <annotation type='line' x='200' y='200' toX='300' toY='300' color='639ACE'/>

            </annotationGroup>

         </annotations>

         ...

    </chart>

In the code above, we have set the annotation type to line, specified the starting x and y co-ordinates and the ending x and y co-ordinates and also a color for the line.

Setting the thickness of the line

The thickness of the line can be defined using the thickness attribute. thickness='5' would give the following output:

Dashed line

The line can be made dashed by setting dashed='1'.

The dash properties - dash length & gap can be customized using the dashLen and dashGap attributes. Setting dashLen='1' and dashGap='4', we would have:

The final XML for the line (as we have above would be):

<chart>

         ...

         <annotations>

            <annotationGroup id='Grp1' >

               <annotation type='line' x='200' y='200' toX='300' toY='300' color='639ACE' dashed='1' dashLen='1' dashGap='4'/>

            </annotationGroup>

         </annotations>

         ...

      </chart>

The various attributes using which the line annotation can be customized are:

Attribute Name	Type / Range	Description
type	Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, Line, Arc, Text, Image	The type of the annotation you wish to draw on the chart. Needs to be set to Line to create a Line annotation.
x	Number	The starting x co-ordinate for the annotation. This x co-ordinate is relative to the x co-ordinate of the annotation group in which the annotation is placed. For example, if you have set the x co-ordinate of the annotation group as 50 and the x co-ordinate of the annotation is 100, then the effective x co-ordinate of the annotation would be 150 w.r.t to the starting position of the chart.
y	Number	The starting y co-ordinate for the annotation. This again is relative to the starting y co-ordinate of the annotation group in which the annotation is placed.
toX	Number	The ending x co-ordinate for the line. This co-ordinate is relative to the starting x-position of the annotation group in which the annotation is placed.
toY	Number	The ending y co-ordinate for the line. This co-ordinate is relative to the starting y-position of the annotation group in which the annotation is placed.
color	Hex Color (without the '#')	A generic color for the annotation from which font color, fill color and border color (whichever applies) will be derived automatically.
alpha	Number(1-100)	The alpha(transparency) of the annotation. By default, it would be set to 100.
thickness	Number	The thickness of the line.

Dash properties
dashed	Boolean (0 or 1)	Whether the line would be dashed or not.
dashLen	Number	The length of the dash in the line.
dashGap	Number	The gap between 2 dashes in a line.

Application

The XML for the above is as follows: