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Two key attractions of Visiblox Charts are the interactivity offers as standard out of the box, and also the ability to fully customize the charts' appearance and style. There are several concepts which link both of the above together - namely NormalStyle, HighlightedStyle and SelectedStyle on a given series. In this post we'll be looking at explaining the above concepts, and showing some examples of how the various styles can be used on different charts to enhance the interactive experience that Visiblox Charts provides.

In this post we describe how to implement a Point & Figure chart in Visiblox. This example uses the free version of Visiblox Charts and the source code can be downloaded here.

• Overview
• Point & Figure Data Point
• Point & Figure Series
• Styling
• Putting it all Together
• Summary

Welcome to 2012!

We hope you had a refreshing break over Christmas and New Year and are looking forward to 2012 as much as we are. We've got some exciting developments and additions in store for you this year and we'll be sure to keep you posted with developments and announcements as they come up. In the meantime, we're always on the look out for feature suggestions, ways we can make Visiblox Charts better for you, or even just to hear about how Visiblox Charts works for you. So if there's something you'd like to share, get in touch via our website or by email or send us a tweet (@visiblox)!

All the best for 2012,

The Visiblox Team

It's that time of year again, the first snow has fallen (at least in these parts of the world) and the shop windows are packed with Christmas decorations. It's still business as usual at Visiblox HQ...well for the most part. Some of the elves took a little time out to provide our blog with a bit of Christmas spirit.

In Extending Annotations Part 1 blog post, we explored how to implement a custom annotation by subclassing one of the built-in annotations. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create annotations from scratch in which case we need to extend the abstract base class AnnotationBase. We will take a more detailed look at the methods we can use and/or override as well as the available properties of this class. We will also be creating the following annotations from scratch: the ImageAnnotation and the PitchforkAnnotation.

• Overview
• Image Annotation Example
• Pitchfork Annotation Example
• Summary