X-axis labels shouldn't flicker

[holographix]

Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to have custom labels on both axis.

Thx a lot.

ps
this lib rulez :)

[drewnoakes]

Yes you can. Check out the builder:

http://smoothiecharts.org/builder/

Turn on the Show timestamps option.

[holographix]

Yep, I saw that option, but.. I see that those labels have an odd behavior, they alternate between one square to the other with this "blink-a-like" effect while moving..
I'd need'em to stay put and scroll along with the plot..
Just to give you an idea, and cut it short, this is a screenshot of the live chart I made using ThreeJS.
It works, but it still has a few glitches and is a gpu/battery drainer, since takes 2.5k val / 350ms,
aside from that, do you think I can replicate a chart like that with this smoothie and have a good result performance-wise?

Thank u so much!

[drewnoakes]

Ok, I've changed the title of this request. Does that seem reasonable?

I don't have an immediate idea regarding how to stop the flickering seen in the x-axis labels, though I agree it'd be a great feature to have. A work-around is to increase the space between vertical bars to be larger than the text labels, either by increasing the bar spacing or increasing the scroll speed.

Ideas on how to solve this without such a workaround are appreciated.

[cinderblock]

One "solution" would be to not skip printing each x-axis label if there isn't enough room for it. So if the settings are set wrong, the text would overlap making the error obvious to the user. (The user would either decrease font size or increase tick spacing)

The second step on this path that would make this more of a solution would be to add an extra explicit option to only print every n labels. A default of 1 would be like the above, slightly undesirable, behavior.

That could even be extended so that the value of 0 (or false) would be the current behavior that ends up with the alternating effect.