ScottPlot is amazing – How to get settings.

I’ve recently found ScottPlot, and it’s amazing.

Most things are straight forward, and there’s plenty of recipes to try out to get the graphs to do what you want.

However, sometimes things aren’t as easy as you’d think.

No, I may or may not have gone about this the right or original way as the author intended, but, this will work.

If you have multiple plots on your graph and you need to know which is which, or index order and you know what the label is, then this should help you out.

                            
formsPlot1.plt.PlotVLine(label: "green", lineWidth: 3, x: position, draggable: true, dragLimitLower: 0, dragLimitUpper: Global.samples[filename_value]);
                            
String plotname = "";

int plottablescount = formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables.Count; 
for (int i = 0; i < plottablescount; i++)
{
                                
Console.WriteLine(formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].ToString());      //  PlottableVLine (green) at X=516587
Console.WriteLine(formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].GetLegendItems());//  ScottPlot.Config.LegendItem[]
Console.WriteLine(formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].GetLimits());     //  x1=516587.000, x2=516587.000, y1=NaN, y2=NaN
Console.WriteLine(formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].GetType());       //  ScottPlot.PlottableVLine
Console.WriteLine(formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].GetHashCode());   //  2383799
                                
var stringlabel = formsPlot1.plt.GetSettings(false).plottables[i].ToString();       //  PlottableVLine (green) at X=516587
                                
Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(stringlabel, @"\(([^)]*)\)").Groups[1].Value); // This will extract the name of the moveable plotline

plotname = Regex.Match(stringlabel, @"\(([^)]*)\)").Groups[1].Value;

if (plotname == "green")
{
    // do stuff
}

}

It loops through the plots you have and then searches for the label you have given your plot, in my case, the label is called green.

Link to the gist

PS. I don’t know how anyone can use this new WordPress content editor. It’s just awful.