Show different colors in one series in StockChart

[wuz73]

I know how to show different colors in one series when enabling marker, but is it possible to show different colors without marker (i.e. color each section of a line with a different color)?

[seba]

At this moment it is not possible, so you should have two series and each of them should have individual color.

[wuz73]

The problem is that I have too many colors (the color gradient indicates the volume while the yAxis indicates the price, and I have many stocks to compare) to show.

Can I use render.path() to plot a path with different colors in different legs?

[Fusher]

I am not sure how exactly should this work, but threshold for colors is planned for upcoming Highcharts 3.0, take a look: http://highcharts.uservoice.com/forums/ ... for-colors with example: http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/PMyHQ/

If you really need to implement this right now I advice to check that example and according to this one implement something similar for VML. Of course you can try to use another approach with .path() but this may cause some problems for spline series.

[wuz73]

Threshold coloring is different from what I need, because it only applies two different colors. What I need is something like this:

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function PlotSeries(data)
{
  for (i=1; i<data.length; i++)
    // draw a line from data[i-1] to data[i] with gradient indicating size
    line(data[i-1].x,data[i-1].y, data[i].x,data[i].y).rgba(255,0,0,data[i-1].size/maxSize);
}

Is this something that you will kindly consider to implement?

[Fusher]

I advice to add this comment to this discussion: http://highcharts.uservoice.com/forums/ ... for-colors
But probably with Highcharts 3.0 it will not be implemented.

[wuz73]

No, I don't think I should hijack the other discussion because it's on a different topic. Threshold is a useful feature, but it's different from my application.

[seba]

So you can request your own suggestion.

[Fusher]

Implemented as plugin: http://www.highcharts.com/plugin-regist ... r%20series