Vaadin Charts

Just started learning how to use Vaadin Charts. I am creating a simple line chart with categories for x-axis.
The tick marks for the x-axis are not displayed. Following is my simple code

XAxis x = new XAxis();
x.setCategories("07-2014", "08-2014","09-2014","10-2014","11-2014","12-2014","01-2015","02-2015","03-2015","04-2015","05-2015","06-2015","07-2015");
x.setTickmarkPlacement(TickmarkPlacement.ON);

Hi,

I haven't tested it but I think it depends on the theme you're using, the theme by default is ValoLightTheme which has disabled tickmarks by design.

You should be able to enable them by doing:

xAxis.setTickmarkPlacement(TickmarkPlacement.ON);
        xAxis.setTickWidth(1);

If you want to do it for all the charts you can change the theme doing:

ChartOptions.get().setTheme(new ValoLightTheme());

To change only this you could also extend ValoLightTheme and override the setAxisDefaults method 

Hope it helps
 

The documentation is a little misleading since it says that the tick mark color by default is #C0D0E0 and the tick mark default width is 1 and the tick length default is 5. So by default if the background is dark then the tick marks should show automatically with the default settings. I have it working by setting the tick mark color to some other color.