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The example shows how to: \list \li Create an application with Q3DBars and some widgets \li Use QBar3DSeries and QBarDataProxy to set data to the graph \li Adjust some graph and series properties using widget controls \endlist It also demonstrates how having negative bar values affects the graph. For instructions about how to interact with the graph, see \l{Qt Data Visualization Interacting with Data}{this page}. \image bars-example.png \section1 Creating the application First, in main.cpp, we create a QApplication, instantiate Q3DBars and a window container for it: \snippet bars/main.cpp 0 The call to QWidget::createWindowContainer is required, as all data visualization graph classes (Q3DBars, Q3DScatter, Q3DSurface) inherit QWindow. Any class inheriting QWindow cannot be used as a widget any other way. Then we'll create horizontal and vertical layouts. We'll add the graph and the vertical layout into the horizontal one: \snippet bars/main.cpp 1 We're not using the vertical layout for anything yet, but we'll get back to it in \l {Using widgets to control the graph} Next, let's create another class to handle the data addition and other interaction with the graph. Let's call it \c GraphModifier (See \l {Setting up the graph} and \l {Adding data to the graph} for details): \snippet bars/main.cpp 2 The application main is done and we can show the graph and start the event loop: \snippet bars/main.cpp 3 \section1 Setting up the graph Let's set up the graph in the constructor of the \c GraphModifier class we instantiated in the application main: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 0 Let's take a closer look at parts of the code. First we're creating the axes and the series into member variables to support changing them easily later on, if we want to: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 1 Then we're setting some of the visual qualities for the graph: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 2 We're also setting up the axes and setting them to the graph as active axes: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 3 Next we initialize the visual properties of the series. Note that the second series is initially not visible: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 8 The series need to be added to the graph to show them: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 4 Finally, we set the camera angle by calling the same method the camera angle change button in the UI uses to cycle through various camera angles: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 6 There you can see that the camera is controlled via the scene object of the graph: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 10 For more information about using scene and cameras, see Q3DScene and Q3DCamera. That concludes setting up the graph. \section1 Adding data to the graph At the end of the constructor there's a call: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 9 This method is used to add data to the proxies of the two series: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 5 Now the series have data to show. \section1 Using widgets to control the graph There isn't much interaction yet, so let's continue by adding some widgets back in the application main. Let's just focus on two as an example: \snippet bars/main.cpp 4 We can use these slider widgets to rotate the graph instead of just using the mouse or touch. Let's add them to the vertical layout we created earlier: \snippet bars/main.cpp 5 Then we'll connect them to methods in \c GraphModifier: \snippet bars/main.cpp 6 Here are the methods in \c GraphModifier the signals were connected to. The camera is controlled via the scene object. This time we specify the actual camera position along the orbit around the center point, instead of specifying a preset camera angle: \snippet bars/graphmodifier.cpp 7 Now these two sliders can be used to rotate the graph. And so we have an application in which we can control: \list \li Graph rotation \li Label style \li Camera preset \li Background visibility \li Grid visibility \li Bar shading smoothness \li Visibility of the second bar series \li Data range to be shown \li Bar style \li Selection mode \li Theme \li Shadow quality \li Font \li Font size \endlist \section1 Example contents */