Add word of warning on never changing the x indexing

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/app/static/js/makeChart.js b/app/static/js/makeChart.js
index 9ee0e2e..0301a5a 100644
--- a/app/static/js/makeChart.js
+++ b/app/static/js/makeChart.js
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ function preprocessData(data) {
 			run = [];
 			continue;
 		}
+		// NOTE: remember that this *must* be 0-based indexing, as the 
+		// change point index is ultimately retrieved from this X 
+		// value and the Python code is 0-based as well. Thus, the 
+		// first item should get X = 0.
 		run.push({"X": n++, "Y": d});
 	}
 	cleanData.push(run);
diff --git a/app/static/js/makeChartMulti.js b/app/static/js/makeChartMulti.js
index bbe0993..59f5acb 100644
--- a/app/static/js/makeChartMulti.js
+++ b/app/static/js/makeChartMulti.js
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ function preprocess(data) {
 		// console.log("Time axis is not implemented yet. Ignoring.");
 	}
 	for (i=0; i<data.values[0].raw.length; i++) {
-		var item = {"X": i}
+		// NOTE: never change this to 1-based indexing. This index is 
+		// ultimately stored in the database as the change point 
+		// index!
+		var item = {"X": i};
 		for (j=0; j<nVar; j++) {
 			item["Y" + j] = data.values[j].raw[i];
 		}