# A dual-color scrolling Line

This demo has been adapted from the updating line chart in the docs.

Update
There's information on this HOWTO page about creating dual color line charts using gradients. It's very simple and can be done using either the RGraph Gradient() shortcut or more directly with the canvas linear gradient functionality.

This goes in the documents header:

    <script src="RGraph.common.core.js"></script>
    <script src="RGraph.common.dynamic.js"></script>
    <script src="RGraph.line.js"></script>

Put this where you want the chart to show up:

    <canvas id="cvs" width="600" height="250">
        [No canvas support]
    </canvas>

This is the code that generates the chart:

    <script>
        window.onload = function ()
        {
            d1  = [];
            l   = 0; // The letter 'L' - NOT a one

            // Pre-pad the arrays with null values
            for (var i=0; i<600; ++i) {
                d1.push(null);
            }

            var obj = null;

            function getGraph(id, d1)
            {
                // After creating the chart, store it in a global variable
                if (!obj) {

                    obj = new RGraph.Line({
                        id: id,
                        data: d1,
                        options: {
                            xticks: 100,
                            backgroundGrid: false,
                            backgroundBarcolor1: 'white',
                            backgroundBarcolor2: 'white',
                            title: 'Bandwidth used',
                            titleXaxis: 'Time >>>',
                            titleXaxisPos: 0.5,
                            titleYaxis: 'Bandwidth (MB/s)',
                            titleYaxisPos: 0.5,
                            titleVpos: 0.5,
                            colors: ['black'],
                            linewidth: 0.75,
                            yaxispos: 'right',
                            ymax: 50,
                            xticks: 25,
                            filled: true,
                            gutterTop: 25,
                            gutterBottom: 25,
                            tickmarks: [null,null],
                            shadow: false,
                            colors: ['rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'],
                            textAccessible: false
                        }
                    })

                    var grad = obj.context.createLinearGradient(0,0,0,250);
                    grad.addColorStop(0, '#efefef');
                    grad.addColorStop(0.9, 'rgba(0,0,0,0)');

                    obj.set('fillstyle', [grad]);
                }

                return obj;
            }

            /**
            * This gets called repeatedly to update the chart
            */
            function drawGraph ()
            {
                // "cache" this in a local variable
                var RG = RGraph;

                RG.clear(document.getElementById("cvs"));

                var graph = getGraph('cvs', d1);
                graph.Draw();

                // The color boundary
                var boundary = (200 * ((graph.scale2.max - 20) / graph.scale2.max)) + 25;

                /**
                * Clip the canvas and draw the upper half
                */
                graph.context.save();
                    graph.context.beginPath();
                    graph.context.rect(0,0,600, boundary);
                    graph.context.clip();

                    // Set the color
                    graph.Set('fillstyle', 'rgba(255,0,0,0.5)');
                    graph.draw();
                graph.context.restore();

                /**
                * Clip the canvas and draw the lower half
                */
                graph.context.save();
                    graph.context.beginPath();
                    graph.context.rect(0,boundary,600,250 - boundary);
                    graph.context.clip();

                    // Set the color
                    graph.Set('fillstyle', 'rgba(0,255,0,0.5)');
                    graph.draw();
                graph.context.restore();

                // Add some data to the data arrays
                var r1 = RGraph.random(
                    RG.isNull(d1[d1.length - 1]) ? 26 : d1[d1.length - 1] - 2,
                    RG.isNull(d1[d1.length - 1]) ? 24 : d1[d1.length - 1] + 2
                );

               r1 = Math.max(r1, 0);
               r1 = Math.min(r1, 50);

                d1.push(r1);

                if (d1.length > 600) {
                    d1 = RG.arrayShift(d1);
                }

                if (RGraph.ISIE8) {
                    alert('[MSIE] Sorry, Internet Explorer 8 is not fast enough to support animated charts');
                } else {
                    obj.original_data[0] = d1;
                    setTimeout(drawGraph, 50);
                }
            }

            drawGraph();
        };
    </script>

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