Added labelFormatter option

git-svn-id: https://flot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@22 1e0a6537-2640-0410-bfb7-f154510ff394

API.txt

@@ -94,8 +94,9 @@ Customizing the legend
 
   legend: {
     show: boolean,
-    noColumns: number,
+    labelFormatter: null or (fn: string -> string),
     labelBoxBorderColor: color,
+    noColumns: number,
     position: "ne" or "nw" or "se" or "sw",
     margin: number of pixels,
     backgroundColor: null or color,
@@ -104,23 +105,33 @@ Customizing the legend
   }
 
 The legend is generated as a table with the data series labels and
-small label boxes with the color of the series. "noColumns" is the
-number of columns to divide the legend table into. "position"
-specifies the overall placement of the legend within the plot
-(top-right, top-left, etc.) and margin the distance to the plot edge.
-"backgroundColor" and "backgroundOpacity" specifies the background.
-The default is a partly transparent auto-detected background.
+small label boxes with the color of the series. If you want to format
+the labels in some way, e.g. make them to links, you can pass in a
+function for "labelFormatter". Here's an example that makes them
+clickable:
+
+  labelFormatter: function(label) {
+    return '<a href="' + label + '">' + label + '</a>';
+  }
+
+"noColumns" is the number of columns to divide the legend table into.
+"position" specifies the overall placement of the legend within the
+plot (top-right, top-left, etc.) and margin the distance to the plot
+edge. "backgroundColor" and "backgroundOpacity" specifies the
+background. The default is a partly transparent auto-detected
+background.
+
+If you want the legend to appear somewhere else in the DOM, you can
+specify "container" as a jQuery object to put the legend table into.
+The "position" and "margin" etc. options will then be ignored.
 
-If you want the legend to appear somewhere else, you can specify
-"container" as a jQuery object to put the legend table in. The
-"position" and "margin" etc. will then be ignored.
 
 
 Customizing the axes
 ====================
 
   xaxis, yaxis: {
-    ticks: null or ticks array,
+    ticks: null or ticks array or (fn: range -> ticks array),
     noTicks: number,
     tickFormatter: fn: number -> string,
     tickDecimals: null or number,

NEWS.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ The ticks options can now be a callback function that takes one
 parameter, an object with the attributes min and max. The function
 should return a ticks array.
 
+Added labelFormatter option in legend, useful for turning the legend
+labels into links.
+
 Fixed a couple of bugs.
 
 The API should now be fully documented.

jquery.flot.js

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
             legend: {
                 show: true,
                 noColumns: 1, // number of colums in legend table
+                labelFormatter: null, // fn: string -> string
                 labelBoxBorderColor: "#ccc", // border color for the little label boxes
                 container: null, // container (as jQuery object) to put legend in, null means default on top of graph
                 position: "ne", // position of default legend container within plot
@@ -954,10 +955,14 @@
                     fragments.push('<tr>');
                     rowStarted = true;
                 }
+
+                var label = series[i].label;
+                if (options.legend.labelFormatter != null)
+                    label = options.legend.labelFormatter(label);
                 
                 fragments.push(
                     '<td class="legendColorBox"><div style="border:1px solid ' + options.legend.labelBoxBorderColor + ';padding:1px"><div style="width:14px;height:10px;background-color:' + series[i].color + '"></div></div></td>' +
-                    '<td class="legendLabel">' + series[i].label + '</td>');
+                    '<td class="legendLabel">' + label + '</td>');
             }
             if (rowStarted)
                 fragments.push('</tr>');