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## values-are-stacked

Arguments: chart-view

Returns the value of the values-are-stacked property of a `chart-view`. The value may be set at creation time by passing the `values-are-stacked` initarg, or any time later by calling (setf values-are-stacked).

This property specifies whether the data values in a `chart-view` of a `chart-widget` are stacked to show cumulative values on the `value-axis`. The default value is `nil`.

This property is relevant only when the widget has multiple objects (see chart-objects), because otherwise there is nothing to stack.

For a `bar-chart-view` (when the chart-view of the `chart-widget` is `:bar`), a true value will stack the multiple bars of each chart item so that they lie end-to-end. A null value will place the bars side-by-side instead. The stacked option saves a lot of space, but can make it somewhat harder to compare the multiple chart objects. If bars are stacked and some values are above the base-value of the `bar-chart-view` while others are below, then all of the values that are above the base-value are stacked in one direction and all of the values that are below the base value are independently stacked in the other direction.

For a `line-graph-view` (when the chart-view of the `chart-widget` is `:line`), a true value will stack the data values so that the line for each chart object is relative to the lines of the chart objects below it. This is like a stacked area graph, though the areas between the lines are not filled. A null value will draw the lines independently of each other, which typically causes more crossing of the multiple lines.

For any true value other than `:downward`, the first object in the sequence of chart-objects is charted first, then the second object is stacked on the values of the first, and so on. For the special value `:downward`, the objects are stacked in the opposite order, which (when chart-orientation is `:vertical`) would match the direction in which the objects are listed from top to bottom in the chart's legend.

See `chart-widget` and also cg-chart-widget.htm.

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