How to turn off animations in WPF Toolkit charts - wpf

Question

Is there a way to turn off the animations in Xaml directly? The animations are really sluggish as my chart has many points.

Answer 1

i have downloaded the latest source code at http://wpf.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
my idea is, to remove the animation by changing the style for the different chart series (chart points, DataPointStyle)
example for charting:PieDataPoint
try to remove the animation for the shown data and take your own style with a given key (x:key="myStyle" -> DataPointStyle="{StaticResource myStyle}")
and remove Opacity="0" at <Grid x:Name="Root" Opacity="0">
remove this visual state group from your style
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="RevealStates">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.5" />
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualState x:Name="Shown">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Root" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="1" Duration="0" />
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="Hidden">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Root" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="0" Duration="0" />
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
EDIT
This is the changed style.
<!-- charting:PieDataPoint -->
<Style TargetType="charting:PieDataPoint">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Orange" />
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="White" />
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1" />
<Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="False" />
<Setter Property="RatioStringFormat" Value="{}{0:p2}" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="charting:PieDataPoint">
<Grid x:Name="Root" Opacity="0">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.1" />
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualState x:Name="Normal" />
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="MouseOverHighlight" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="0.6" Duration="0" />
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="SelectionStates">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.1" />
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualState x:Name="Unselected" />
<VisualState x:Name="Selected">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="SelectionHighlight" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="0.6" Duration="0" />
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<Path x:Name="Slice" Data="{TemplateBinding Geometry}" Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}" Stroke="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" StrokeMiterLimit="1">
<ToolTipService.ToolTip>
<StackPanel>
<ContentControl Content="{TemplateBinding FormattedDependentValue}" />
<ContentControl Content="{TemplateBinding FormattedRatio}" />
</StackPanel>
</ToolTipService.ToolTip>
</Path>
<Path x:Name="SelectionHighlight" Data="{TemplateBinding GeometrySelection}" Fill="Red" StrokeMiterLimit="1" IsHitTestVisible="False" Opacity="0" />
<Path x:Name="MouseOverHighlight" Data="{TemplateBinding GeometryHighlight}" Fill="White" StrokeMiterLimit="1" IsHitTestVisible="False" Opacity="0" />
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
After my first attempt to remove the animation, I wanted to give up, because it has not worked.
But then I looked upon me with the reflector to the source code and have found a way that it still works.
Setting the DataPointStyle unfortunately is not enough, I think it's a bug.
<chartingToolkit:Chart Margin="8">
<chartingToolkit:Chart.Series>
<chartingToolkit:BarSeries x:Name="barSeries"
Title="Experience"
DataPointStyle="{StaticResource myBarStyle}">
</chartingToolkit:BarSeries>
</chartingToolkit:Chart.Series>
</chartingToolkit:Chart>
In the constructor of the control where the chart is included simply execute the following.
this.barSeries.RefreshStyles();
hope this helps