Ordering of paints for overlapping lines

[MichaelRFairhurst]

Hey Milan,

I noticed that if I make two lines in the line chart, it seems that the first line gets painted before the second line. Could this be reversed?

The reason here is that the first line's legend shows up first in the chart, so it should be the "prioritized" line most of the time. However, if the second line overlaps it, it will be drawn over the first line.

This makes it hard to clearly prioritize one line over another -- its either later in the legend, or its underneath the rest.

[mzimmerm]

Hi Michael,

Yes that makes sense, although I did not fully "realize" the ordering is like this but yeah, I think the lines are painted in the order of the "data rows", so the last line "wins/overlaps" those below. It can definitely be reversed, although I think we should provide an option. Default would be the first line in the series (corresponding to the left-most colored square) is painted last, is that what you meant? I think I can do this this weekend, maybe earlier.

Thanks, this is very useful,
Milan

[MichaelRFairhurst]

Yep, I read your comment as exactly what I was trying to say!

No real rush, I'm also working on my app when I get time between other things :)

[mzimmerm]

@MichaelRFairhurst : Michael, I published a new version that addresses and should fix items 5, 6. Please take a look at https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/flutter_charts#pub-pkg-tab-changelog for details.

Let me know if there are some issues with the two.

I started working on item 3 (planning for now by a simple iterative X labels layout that will either/or tilt/skip labels.
Later,
Milan

[MichaelRFairhurst]

Works great! Sorry for the delay in responding.