Topic: Add additional logic on chart legend clicks (hiding/unhiding datasets)

QPdev free asked 2 years ago


I want to do additional logic whenever someone clicks a legend item (hides/unhides a dataset), namely rescaling the yAxis.

How can i achieve this? I tried to manually override the options.legend.onclick handler, but i cannot access chart.getDatasetMeta() from https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/developers/api.html#getdatasetmeta-index

which is used in solutions like

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42555513/chart-js-change-legend-toggle-behaviour

Where does the BaseChartDirective expose this, or is there any other way how i can add additional logic to these toggles?

Thank you in advance


QPdev free answered 2 years ago


For anyone stumbling upon this, the solution was

html

<canvas mdbChart #chartCanvas
            ...
            [options]="options"
            ...
></canvas>

ts

@ViewChild(BaseChartDirective, { static: true }) chartCanvas: BaseChartDirective;

...

options.legend = {
        onClick: (_: MouseEvent, legendItem: Chart.ChartLegendLabelItem) => {
            const metaData = this.chartCanvas.chart.getDatasetMeta(legendItem.datasetIndex)
            metaData.hidden = !metaData.hidden
            this.chartCanvas.chart.update()
            ### ADDITIONAL LOGIC HERE ###
        }
    }


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  • Technology: MDB Angular
  • MDB Version: MDB4 9.4.0
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