From 563349c9c83e2b6058578574b87b5d512f42676b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "olau@iola.dk" <olau@iola.dk@1e0a6537-2640-0410-bfb7-f154510ff394>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:37:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add example of using gradients with bars

git-svn-id: https://flot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@216 1e0a6537-2640-0410-bfb7-f154510ff394
---
 API.txt | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/API.txt b/API.txt
index a11dd86..0932b72 100644
--- a/API.txt
+++ b/API.txt
@@ -716,10 +716,18 @@ For the series you can specify the gradient as an object that
 specifies the scaling of the brightness and the opacity of the series
 color, e.g.
 
-  { colors: [{ opacity: 0.8 }, { brightness: 0.6, opacity: 0.8 } ]
+  { colors: [{ opacity: 0.8 }, { brightness: 0.6, opacity: 0.8 } ] }
 
 where the first color simply has its alpha scaled, whereas the second
-is also darkened.
+is also darkened. For instance, for bars the following makes the bars
+gradually disappear, without outline:
+
+  bars: {
+      show: true,
+      lineWidth: 0,
+      fill: true,
+      fillColor: { colors: [ { opacity: 0.8 }, { opacity: 0.1 } ] }
+  }
   
 Flot currently only supports vertical gradients drawn from top to
 bottom because that's what works with IE.