Infinity value in Value tag

[Helljedi]

Hi,

I build the data by code and I need to know if there's a word or something to represent the infinity, or should I assign inf as 0 in order to avoid exceptions. Is there anybody that could help me?

Thanks for all.

[david.gilbert]

Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY and Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY are used in Java, but they will cause trouble if you put them in a dataset and try to plot them.

[Helljedi]

Is there any word to put in a dataset that means infinity, like INF, or MAX ?? If I want to represent a dataset that contains infinity (a number divided by zero), should I substitute this value by 0 in order to view the chart? Thanks so much.

[Morwen]

Hey everyone,

Has there been any change with a way to plot Infinity in JFreeChart?

Thanks in advanced,

Morwen.

[RichardWest]

Has there been any change with a way to plot Infinity in JFreeChart?

A humorist's and purist's answer: plot nothing but one bar and leave off the range axis. In the truest sense of infinity, any finite data you have on the plot would be so small (infinitesimally small in fact) that even a painted atom would be too large to represent it in true scale.

[Morwen]

Well, considering you'll usually want to put infinite values with finite values, I'd expect it to appear as "infinity sign", and act the same way as 0 for positive (Above axis) and negative infinity to appear below axis, but the same as 0 in all other respects, and yet, would not affect other values (Since we DO want to see them, unlike what would happen when we scale it to size).
I do agree that we shouldn't have a value axis, since it has an infinite value.

In essence, I saw there was no real handling for what David mentioned above still in version 1.04.

Hope this helps a little,

Morwen.

[david.gilbert]

Well, considering you'll usually want to put infinite values with finite values, I'd expect it to appear as "infinity sign", and act the same way as 0 for positive (Above axis) and negative infinity to appear below axis, but the same as 0 in all other respects, and yet, would not affect other values (Since we DO want to see them, unlike what would happen when we scale it to size).

I agree, it would be a good thing to add handling for these values.

[Morwen]

Do you expect to add handling to it in one of the next versions? Any predicment?