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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Michael Phillips
Book Image

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By: Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to manipulate visualization properties


There are many reasons why you might want to manipulate visualization properties, not least to provide a more dynamic experience for the user. Visualization properties are manipulated using the Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals namespace. This namespace is very large and includes some generic classes for manipulating items such as axes and then specific classes for each visualization type. Regardless of which class you wish to use, you must first find a visualization's object reference, as described in the previous main section. To recap:

for page in Document.Pages:
  for visualization in page.Visuals:

Only when you have identified the visualization you are interested in (by name or type usually) are you ready to use the methods and properties in Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals.

The next step is to "convert" the visualization object identified using the Spotfire.Dxp.Application Documents class into a visual content object. This is achieved as follows...