I used the chart tool to create a stacked bar chart. I cannot figure out how to set the width of the bar with any functions I try in the configureChart extension function. Does anyone know how to do this ?
When I make the entire object narrower in the designer it makes the text to small in the legend.
Here is the code I have in the configureChart extention function for setting legend font, getting rid of the gradient, shadow and background grid:
def configureChart(self,chart):
from java.awt import Color
from org.jfree.chart.renderer.category import StandardBarPainter
from java.awt import Font
darkColor = Color(43,43,43)
lightColor = Color(213,213,213)
plot = chart.getPlot()
legend = chart.getLegend()
chart.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
plot.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
plot.setDomainGridlinesVisible(0) #turn off background grid lines
plot.setRangeGridlinesVisible(0) #turn off background grid lines
plot.setOutlineVisible(0) #turn off background outline
legend.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
legend.setItemPaint(lightColor) # sets font color in legend
d = Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 14)
legend.setItemFont(d) #sets font in legend
legend.setBorder(0, 0, 0, 0) #removes the legend border
#removes the gradient rendering of bars and replaces with single colors
renderer = plot.getRenderer()
renderer.setBarPainter(StandardBarPainter())
renderer.setShadowVisible(0) #removes shadow on bars
#these functions didn't work, error reported these methods didn't exist or they had no effect
# renderer.setMaximumBarWidth(1)
# renderer.setMaximumBarWidth(5)
# renderer.setSeriesBarWidth(2,4)
Looking into it, it looks like you need to provide a custom subclass of StandardBarPainter - you’ll notice StandardBarPainter calls paintBar with a BarRenderer - and that BarRenderer has a getMaximumBarWidth() method you could override.
I am still very new to using jython and external libraries. Can you provide a quick example ?
Thanks
Actually, looking at it again, your commented out code should work fine - you're just missing one aspect - the setMaximumBarWidth function expects you to pass a double, which will be a percentage used:
Sets the maximum bar width, which is specified as a percentage of the available space for all bars
Try passing 0.1 or 0.2 and see if you notice a difference in the final chart.
That worked thanks. I added the lineb below which resulted in the graph below. Now to figure out how to get rid of the little gray line at the top…
renderer.setMaximumBarWidth(0.2) #value must be double and is a normalized percentage range 0 to 1
The complete code:
def configureChart(self, chart):
darkColor = Color(43,43,43)
lightColor = Color(213,213,213)
plot = chart.getPlot()
legend = chart.getLegend()
chart.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
plot.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
plot.setDomainGridlinesVisible(0) #turn off background grid lines
plot.setRangeGridlinesVisible(0) #turn off background grid lines
plot.setOutlineVisible(0) #turn off background outline
legend.setBackgroundPaint(darkColor)
legend.setItemPaint(lightColor) # sets font color in legend
d = Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 14)
legend.setItemFont(d) #sets font in legend
legend.setBorder(0, 0, 0, 0) #removes the legend border
from org.jfree.chart.renderer.category import BarRenderer
from org.jfree.chart.renderer.category import StandardBarPainter
#removes the gradient rendering of bars and replaces with single colors
renderer = plot.getRenderer()
print type(renderer)
renderer.setBarPainter(StandardBarPainter())
renderer.setShadowVisible(0)
renderer.setMaximumBarWidth(0.2) #value must be double and is a normalized percentage range 0 to 1
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