QwtCurveFitter and negative axis

[bisasatan]

Hello everyone,

I've just started using QWT and till now, everything worked great, but now I'm having a problem with negative values on the axis of a qwtplot and the curvefitter.
I attached a lot of curves to my plot and there are two kinds of them: curves, which represent prices and therefore are always positive and curves, which represent price deviations, which can be negative and positive and therefore, if chosen, the axis has might have an interval of [-5.0; 5.0].
I am adding a curvefitter to all curves on initialization and giving the user the option to "smooth" the curve, when already attached and shown by calling

curve->setCurveAttribute(QwtPlotCurve::Fitted,true);

curve->setCurveAttribute(QwtPlotCurve::Fitted,true);

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The problem: when i do this on the price-curves everything is fine, but when the deviation curves are chosen the curve gets partially drawn outside the visible area. I've attached 2 pictures to demonstrate the problem - the first shows the normal deviation curve (which is already drawn much nearer to the xAxis than the price curves) and the second shows the behaviour when QwtPlotCurve::Fitted was applied.

My second problem is related to the first one: I dont know anything about interpolating curves and do not fully understand the Curvefitters - the first problem occurs, because the amplitude gets way out of boundaries when there is a dramatic change from rising to falling - is there a way to prevent this by setting the splicecount to a specific value or something like that?

Thx in advance for any help - I hope I'm not missing something basic.

no_fitter.jpg
fitter.jpg

[Uwe]

Look like a Qwt bug to me. Please post a small standalone demo showing the problem.

Uwe

[bisasatan]

Hello Uwe,

I've attached an example which shows one curve with drastically changing values -10; 160; -10 - when Fitter gets applied you'll see the effect.
I hope, that's what you meant with standalone example.


main.cpp
plotsmooth.cpp
plotsmoo.h

EDIT: I've also realised, that it does not only happens with negative values - the fluctuation just has to be high enough.

[Uwe]

Unfortunately the result of the implemented spline interpolation for your curve is pretty bad ...

The implementation of the spline interpolation is the only piece of code that is left from Qwt 1.0 ( not written by me ) and I don't know the algorithms myself. But as far as I can see the amplitude changes when playing with some factors so it should be possible to offer parameters having an effect on the interpolation.

There is enough documentation about spline interpolation available: f.e http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n905996/SPLINES.PDF - if someone is interested in improving QwtSpline ...

Uwe