I have a window in my project that is used to display certain data with a Chart component depending on the table names and columns that are passed into the window (as string parameters) when it is opened. I did some experimenting and found that I can create all my Axes ahead of time, and then use:
chartObject.setDatasetYAxis('Data','AxisNameHere')to select the axis. The first string is the dataset name (which by default is ‘Data’). The second parameter is the axis name (which is ‘Default Y Axis’ by default). I was wondering if I could just use a single axis and update the axis’s “Display Label” property when the screen opens, simply because I have multiple charts on the screen and would like to do this for all of them. Currently, I pass the Units of the data I’m plotting into the window when I open it, so at the moment I’m creating a series of Y Axes with the same name (and display label) as the units. It will work this way, but I would like to automate the process a bit more.
For reference, here are the methods returned when performing print dir(chartObject)
['ABORT', 'ALLBITS', 'AccessibleJComponent', 'BOTTOM_ALIGNMENT', 'BaselineResizeBehavior', 'CENTER_ALIGNMENT', 'CHART_CATEGORY', 'CHART_XY', 'COMPONENT_LOCKED', 'COMPONENT_PERMISSIONS', 'COMPONENT_RUNNING', 'COMPONENT_SECURITY', 'DEFAULT_BUFFER_USED', 'DEFAULT_HEIGHT', 'DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_DRAW_HEIGHT', 'DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_DRAW_WIDTH', 'DEFAULT_MINIMUM_DRAW_HEIGHT', 'DEFAULT_MINIMUM_DRAW_WIDTH', 'DEFAULT_WIDTH', 'DEFAULT_X_AXIS_NAME', 'DEFAULT_Y_AXIS_NAME', 'DEFAULT_ZOOM_TRIGGER_DISTANCE', 'ERROR', 'FRAMEBITS', 'HEIGHT', 'LEFT_ALIGNMENT', 'NO_SUCH_PAGE', 'ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL', 'ORIENTATION_VERTICAL', 'PAGE_EXISTS', 'PRINT_COMMAND', 'PROPERTIES', 'PROPERTIES_COMMAND', 'RESERVED_SET_KEY', 'RIGHT_ALIGNMENT', 'SAVE_COMMAND', 'SHARED_DOMAIN', 'SHARED_RANGE', 'SOMEBITS', 'TOOL_TIP_TEXT_KEY', 'TOP_ALIGNMENT', 'UI', 'UIClassID', 'UNDEFINED_CONDITION', 'WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCUSED_COMPONENT', 'WHEN_FOCUSED', 'WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW', 'WIDTH', 'XAxes', 'YAxes', 'ZOOM_IN_BOTH_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_IN_DOMAIN_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_IN_RANGE_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_OUT_BOTH_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_OUT_DOMAIN_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_OUT_RANGE_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_RESET_BOTH_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_RESET_DOMAIN_COMMAND', 'ZOOM_RESET_RANGE_COMMAND', '__class__', '__copy__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__unicode__', 'accessibleContext', 'action', 'actionMap', 'actionPerformed', 'add', 'addAncestorListener', 'addChartMouseListener', 'addComponentListener', 'addContainerListener', 'addFocusListener', 'addHierarchyBoundsListener', 'addHierarchyListener', 'addInputMethodListener', 'addKeyListener', 'addMouseListener', 'addMouseMotionListener', 'addMouseWheelListener', 'addNotify', 'addPropertyChangeListener', 'addVetoableChangeListener', 'alignmentX', 'alignmentY', 'ancestorAdded', 'ancestorListener', 'ancestorListeners', 'ancestorMoved', 'ancestorRemoved', 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