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Hi,
As the title suggests, I need some help graphing some data from a multidimensional array using ZedGraph. Please see the following code:

//Here are some variables declared earlier 

int counter = 0

double [] y;

double [] x;

y = new double[FinalArray.GetLength(1) * LoopingValue];

x = new double[FinalArray.GetLength(1) * LoopingValue];

ExperimentArray[ LoopingValue, FinalArray.GetLength(1);

private void Plot_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

	for (int j = 0; j < LoopingValue; j ++)

	{
		/*
		Excluding a lot of code in this section. Basically a new version of FinalArray is calculated using the value
		of the variable 'LoopingValue', which is why y and x have a length as defined above.
	    */
	    for (int i = 0; i < FinalArray.GetLength(1); i++)
		 {
			y[counter] = FinalArray[0, i];
			x[counter] = j + 1;
			counter = counter + 1; 

		 }
	}
	counter = 0;
	CreateGraph(zg1);
}

private void CreateGraph(ZedGraphControl zgc)

{

    zg1.GraphPane.CurveList.Clear();
    GraphPane mypane = zg1.GraphPane;
    mypane.Title.Text = "Model Simulation";
    mypane.XAxis.Title.Text = "Mass";
    mypane.YAxis.Title.Text = "Force (Newtons)";
    mypane.YAxis.MajorGrid.IsVisible = true;
    BarItem mybar;
	
	for (int i  = 0; i < FinalArray.GetLength(1); i++)
		 {
			mybar = mypane.AddBar(i.ToString(), x, y, Color.Blue);
		 }
		 
    mypane.BarSettings.Type = BarType.Stack;
    mypane.Chart.Fill = new Fill(Color.White, Color.LightGoldenrodYellow, 45F);
    mypane.Fill = new Fill(Color.White, Color.White, 45F);
    zgc.AxisChange();
    zg1.Refresh();
}

}


Now while this code does graph the data, it is not exactly what I am after. The array titled X has values such as the following:

X = [1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5]



and the array Y has (corresponding) values:

Y = [10,12,15,24,28,26,39,40,56,89,78,90,113,119,124]



so what I am after is a stacked bar chart with the 3 different values of Y, plotted at the points of X. Now I could set up 3 different arrays and blot the bars in the following manner to achieve what I want to achieve:
//Set up the arrays so that:
y1 = [10 , 24 , 39 , 89  , 113 ]
y2 = [ 12 , 28 , 40 , 78 , 119 ]
y3 = [ 15, 26 , 56 , 90 , 124]

//and then plot the bars:

mybar = mypane.AddBar("1", null, y1, Color.Red);
mybar = mypane.AddBar("2", null, y2, Color.Blue);
mybar = mypane.AddBar("3", null, y3, Color.Green);


but I would like to avoid hardcoding because the number of elements can potentially change depending on how the user of the application defines them eariler. i.e. I could have 50 points different arrays (y4, y5, y......, y50) to plot. So is there any way I could plot what it is I want without hardcoding? The problem lies in creating the arrays y4,y5,y6,...y100........ect, and being able to call them in a single .AddBar line. If there is a way to do this, can I also do something with the last argument in the .AddBar line so that the color is different for each stacked bar I want to plot?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
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I don't know if you'll be able to do it with a single call to AddBar, but you could keep a List< double[] > for the xs and ys and then iterate over them as needed.

You can also create a List of Colors to iterate over when calling AddBar. The KnownColor enum gives you a list of defined color names, so you can do something like this:
foreach (string colorName in Enum.GetNames(typeof(KnownColor)))
{
}

to get all the known color names or you could just pick the ones you like most and create a List with those in it. Each time you call AddBar just use the next element in the List as the third param to get a nice multi-colored graph.
 
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