I am using Dimple.js to plot several data series and I need to add a candlestick or hi/lo series on to my existing chart. After some analysis, I have found two possible approaches to do this:
1) Use the floating bar option in Dimple.js. Since the "widths" (heights on the chart, but widths for the floating bar) would be all different, I would need a different data series for each candlestick. This feels like a hack, but the one advantage is that this would be using Dimple to do all the rendering. I would probably not go this route unless some had a thought on how to make this less of a hack.
2) Drop down to D3 to draw lines between the points. I can use Dimple.js to graph both the top and bottom elements of the candlestick, then use D3 to draw the line between the points. I would do a selectAll() on one of the series, and then draw a path to the related point in the other series.
If there are other suggestions on an approach, please let me know. Thanks!
You can use this example to build candlestick charts using d3.js