Reacting to changes of axis limits

In Kontrast you can plot arrays of data, for example to visualize a function. To generate the data, you explicitly need to evaluate the function in a certain value range. A viewer of the interactive visualization, however, can arbitrarily change the axis limits. To draw a plot independent of the axis limits, you must update the data according to the new limits.

The following examples show how to implement this method by utilizing the event handlers of the min and max properties of axes.

The first example is simple: In the callback function the line segment is updated when the axes limits are changed. You may notice that the line can be cut at the graph edges when you zoom out of the graph very quickly. To avoid this, the plot line can be drawn not only in the exact limits of each axes but also a little outside, too (see the comment in the source of this file).

The second example is a more meaningful case. This is a graph of the function

For such function this technique may be useful. If you view this example on a device with a mouse, try Ctrl + Mouse wheel to only enlarge the horizontal axis.

The code is almost same as the first example. The difference is that the segments (xArray) are newly calculated according to the new range, because this is a curve instead of a line (segment).

A more elaborate case using this technique is shown in Example: Interactive data updates.