`ticks.bounds` (`'data'`(default)|`'label'`): `data` preserves the data range while `labels` ensures that all labels are visible. This option is bypassed by the min/max time options.
Remove the useless time scale `_model` object containing private members: instead, make these members private (prefixed by `_`) part of the scale.
Move time helpers back into time scale, remove the `Chart.helpers.time namespace` and attempt to make the auto generation logic a bit simpler. The generate method doesn't anymore enforce min/max, the calling code needs to clamp timestamps if needed.
For time series charts it may make more sense to specify the horizontal axis using the variable `t`. This change will make it much easier to use the time scale with the financial chart, which takes in the data points `{t, o, h, l, c}`.
The title plugin and scale title now accept lineHeight specified using unitless value (1.4), length ('1.4em' or '12px'), percentage ('200%') or keyword ('normal' === 1.2). The line height parsing has been refactored under the 'Chart.helpers.options' namespace. Also fix incorrect text positioning in the title plugin.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/line-height
`ticks.source` (`'auto'`(default)|`'labels'`): `auto` generates "optimal" ticks based on min, max and a few more options (current `time` implementation`). `labels` generates ticks from the user given `data.labels` values (two additional trailing and leading ticks can be added if min and max are provided).
`ticks.mode` (`'linear'`(default)|`series`): `series` displays ticks at the same distance from each other, whatever the time value they represent, while `linear` displays them linearly in time: the distance between each tick represent the amount of time between their time values.
Default options can now be accessed by importing `core/core.defaults`. The returned object acts as a singleton and is populated when importing classes that expose their own default values (meaning that importing only `code.defaults` results in an empty object). Also make `Chart.Ticks` and `Chart.Interaction` importable since existing defaults rely on these values.
Add the `defaults._set` method that make easier declaring new defaults by merging given values with existing ones for a specific scope (`global`, `scale`, `bar`, etc).
Properly export helpers and remove dependencies to `Chart.helpers`. Helpers can now be accessed from `src/helpers/index.js` (`var helpers = require('path/to/helpers/index')`, instead of `var helpers = Chart.helpers`).
The `clone` method now accepts any type of input but also recursively perform a deep copy of the array items. Rewrite the `configMerge` and `scaleMerge` helpers which now rely on a new generic and customizable `merge` method, that one accepts a target object in which multiple sources are deep copied. Note that the target (first argument) is not cloned and will be modified after calling `merge(target, sources)`. Add a `mergeIf` helper which merge the source properties only if they do not exist in the target object.
Deprecate `addEvent` and `removeEvent`, and move implementation in `platform.dom.js`. Add 'options' feature detection to register event listeners as passive and prevent warning in Chrome.
For consistency with `valueOrDefault`, `valueAtIndexOrDefault` now returns null if `value` (expected array) is null. Also get rid of the superfluous `get` prefix in `getValueOrDefault` and `getValueAtIndexOrDefault`.
Move some of the "core" and "canvas" utils in `helpers.core.js` and `helpers.canvas.js` and introduce the new `isNullOrUndef` and `isObject` helpers. Deprecate `indexOf` and rename `drawRoundedRectangle` to `roundedRect` which now creates a simple `rect` path if radius is 0. Write missing unit tests for the moved helpers.
Elements were resizing incorrectly if they were regenerated while the chart was in a div that was display:none. Added a check to avoid this issue. Resolves#4397
See discussion in the issue for context and possible approaches.
When invoking update() inside an event handler, such as onHover,
`options.hover.animationDuration` was not being respected. Given that
some use cases may require additional animation properties for the
manual update call, this commit changes that method signature to accept
a configuration object.
This object provides backwards compatibility with duration and lazy
properties, and also introduces the easing property so that the event
animation is different from the global one.
Add tests that guarantee that when update is called manually with
arguments, it properly builds the _bufferedRequest or calls render with
the proper arguments.
It includes test cases for when update is called with legacy arguments
(duration and lazy) instead of the config object.
.update() documentation was previously updated but .render() was left
out. Since the backwards compatible change was also made to render(),
this commit adds documentation for it.
Implemented alignment by major unit in the time scale. This allows showing the first tick of a larger unit like days in a special way and is part of the basis of the time series scale.
Fix onHover event not being triggered
The core controller was looking at the wrong object (options.hover) to
find the function to be called on hover. The function is provided on the
top level options object (options.onHover).
By using the helper function, there's no need to verify if the callback
is defined, as the helper already does that.
Fixes#4296
