ChartDirector 6.0 (ColdFusion Edition)

Text Styles and Colors




This example demonstrates various text styles, text colors, background colors and text box border effects.

In the chart above, 3 different pattern colors (wallpapers) are used for the chart background, legend box background and chart title background. In addition, the chart title, sector labels, and legends all have different fonts, text colors, background colors, and border styles.

Source Code Listing

[File: cfdemo/fontpie.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;
}

// The data for the pie chart
data = Array(25, 18, 15, 12, 8, 30, 35);

// The labels for the pie chart
labels = Array("Labor", "Licenses", "Taxes", "Legal", "Insurance", "Facilities", "Production");

// Create a PieChart object of size 480 x 300 pixels
c = cd.PieChart(480, 300);

// Set search path to current directory for loading icon images
c.setSearchPath(GetPageContext());

// Use a blue marble pattern as the background wallpaper, with a black border, and 1 pixel 3D border
// effect
c.setBackground(c.patternColor("marble.png"), "0x000000", 1);

// Set the center of the pie at (150, 150) and the radius to 100 pixels
c.setPieSize(150, 150, 100);

// Add a title to the pie chart using Times Bold Italic/15 points/deep blue (0x000080) as font, with
// a wood pattern as the title background
c.addTitle("Project Cost Breakdown", "Times New Roman Bold Italic", 15, "0x000080").setBackground(
    c.patternColor("wood.png"));

// Draw the pie in 3D
c.set3D();

// Add a legend box using Arial Bold Italic/11 points font. Use a pink marble pattern as the
// background wallpaper, with a 1 pixel 3D border. The legend box is top-right aligned relative to
// the point (465, 70)
b = c.addLegend(465, 70, True, "Arial Bold Italic", 11);
b.setBackground(c.patternColor("marble2.png"), cd.Transparent, 1);
b.setAlignment(cd.TopRight);

// Set the default font for all sector labels to Arial Bold/8pt/dark green (0x008000).
c.setLabelStyle("Arial Bold", 8, "0x008000");

// Set the pie data and the pie labels
c.setData(data, labels);

// Explode the 3rd sector
c.setExplode(2, 40);

// Use Arial Bold/12pt/red as label font for the 3rd sector
c.sector(2).setLabelStyle("Arial Bold", 12, "0xff0000");

// Use Arial/8pt/deep blue as label font for the 5th sector. Add a background box using the sector
// fill color (SameAsMainColor), with a black (0x000000) edge and 2 pixel 3D border.
c.sector(4).setLabelStyle("Arial", 8, "0x000080").setBackground(cd.SameAsMainColor, "0x000000", 2);

// Use Arial Italic/8pt/light red (0xff9999) as label font for the 6th sector. Add a dark blue
// (0x000080) background box with a 2 pixel 3D border.
c.sector(0).setLabelStyle("Arial Italic", 8, "0xff9999").setBackground("0x000080", cd.Transparent, 2
    );

// Use Times Bold Italic/8pt/deep green (0x008000) as label font for 7th sector. Add a yellow
// (0xFFFF00) background box with a black (0x000000) edge.
c.sector(6).setLabelStyle("Times New Roman Bold Italic", 8, "0x008000").setBackground("0xffff00",
    "0x000000");

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

// Include tool tip for the chart
imageMap1 = c.getHTMLImageMap("", "", "title='{label}: US${value}K ({percent}%)'");

</cfscript>
<html>
<body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px">
<div style="font-size:18pt; font-family:verdana; font-weight:bold">
    Text Style and Colors
</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>