function_reference.md

PiChart Function Reference

PiChart has 4 classes:

• Chart
• Container
• Card
• Image_tile

Chart

Create a chart by creating a new Chart object. You'll need to provide a display object, from the picographics library. PicoGraphics is built into the Pimoroni MicroPython build.

# Import a graphics driver
from picographics import PicoGraphics, DISPLAY_PICO_EXPLORER

# Create a display
display = PicoGraphics(display=DISPLAY_PICO_EXPLORER)

# Create a new Chart and pass it the display
my_chart = Chart(display)

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Properties

data_point_radius

The data point is the small circle that represents the data value. The data point radius is the size of the point drawn on the chart.

show_labels

Methods

draw_border

draw_grid

map

scale_data

update()

Container

Properties

display

charts

cols

Methods

add_chart

Card

Properties

text_scale

margin

Methods

scale_text

update

Image_tile

Properties

x

y

width

height

border_colour

border_width

filename

Methods

draw_border

update