ChartDirector 6.0 (ColdFusion Edition)

Compact Line Chart




This example extends the Simple Line Chart example by decorating the chart using a number of chart formatting features.

In this example, random data is used. They are generated using a ChartDirector utility class RanTable. RanTable simulates a database table with the cells filled with random numbers. The columns of the table can be retrieved as arrays using RanTable.getCol.

Source Code Listing

[File: cfdemo/compactline.cfm]
<cfscript>

// ChartDirector for ColdFusion API Access Point
cd = CreateObject("java", "ChartDirector.CFChart");

// A utility to allow us to create arrays with data in one line of code
function Array() {
    var result = ArrayNew(1);
    var i = 0;
    for (i = 1; i LTE ArrayLen(arguments); i = i + 1)
        result[i] = arguments[i];
    return result;
}

//
//    We use a random number generator to simulate the data from 9:30am to 4:30pm with one data
//    point every 4 minutes. The total number of points during that period is 106.  (7 hours x 15
//    points/hour + 1)
//
noOfPoints = 106;

// Assume we have not reached the end of the day yet, and only 85 points are available. Create a
// random table object of 1 col x 85 rows, using 9 as seed.
rantable = cd.RanTable(9, 1, 85);

// Set the 1st column to start with 1800 and with random delta from -5 to 5.
rantable.setCol(0, 1800, -5, 5);

// Get the data as the 1st column of the random table
data = rantable.getCol(0);

// The x-axis labels for the chart
labels = Array("-", "10am", "-", " ", "-", "12am", "-", " ", "-", "2pm", "-", " ", "-", "4pm", "-");

//
//    Now we obtain the data into arrays, we can start to draw the chart using ChartDirector
//

// Create a XYChart object of size 180 x 180 pixels with a blue background (0x9c9cce)
c = cd.XYChart(180, 180, "0x9c9cce");

// Add titles to the top and bottom of the chart using 7.5pt Arial font. The text is white 0xffffff
// on a deep blue 0x31319C background.
c.addTitle2(cd.Top, "STAR TECH INDEX  2003-01-28", "Arial", 7.5, "0xffffff", "0x31319c");
c.addTitle2(cd.Bottom, "LATEST  STI:1809.41 (+14.51)", "Arial", 7.5, "0xffffff", "0x31319c");

// Set the plotarea at (31, 21) and of size 145 x 124 pixels, with a pale yellow (0xffffc8)
// background.
c.setPlotArea(31, 21, 145, 124, "0xffffc8");

// Add custom text at (176, 21) (top right corner of plotarea) using 11pt Times Bold Italic font/red
// (0xc09090) color
c.addText(176, 21, "Chart Demo", "Times New Roman Bold Italic", 11, "0xc09090").setAlignment(
    cd.TopRight);

// Use 7.5pt Arial as the y axis label font
c.yAxis().setLabelStyle("", 7.5);

// Set the labels on the x axis by spreading the labels evenly between the first point (index = 0)
// and the last point (index = noOfPoints - 1)
c.xAxis().setLinearScale(0, noOfPoints - 1, labels);

// Use 7.5pt Arial as the x axis label font
c.xAxis().setLabelStyle("", 7.5);

// Add a deep blue (0x000080) line layer to the chart
c.addLineLayer(data, "0x000080");

// Output the chart
chart1URL = c.makeSession(GetPageContext(), "chart1");

// Include tool tip for the chart. The chart starts at 9:30am and each point spans 240 seconds, so
// we can compute the time as {x}*240+9.5*3600.
imageMap1 = c.getHTMLImageMap("", "", "title='{={x}*240+9.5*3600|h:nna}: {value|2}'");

</cfscript>
<html>
<body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px">
<div style="font-size:18pt; font-family:verdana; font-weight:bold">
    Compact Line Chart
</div>
<hr style="border:solid 1px #000080" />
<cfoutput>
<div style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana; margin-bottom:1.5em">
    <a href='viewsource.cfm?file=#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#'>View Source Code</a>
</div>
<img src="getchart.cfm?#chart1URL#" usemap="##map1" border="0" />
<map name="map1">#imageMap1#</map>
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>