ChartDirector 6.0 (ColdFusion Edition)

Stacked Area Chart




This example demonstrates using multiple data sets to create stacked area chart.

The key features demonstrated in this example are:

Source Code Listing

[File: cfdemo/stackedarea.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 area chart
data0 = Array(42, 49, 33, 38, 51, 46, 29, 41, 44, 57, 59, 52, 37, 34, 51, 56, 56, 60, 70, 76, 63,
    67, 75, 64, 51);
data1 = Array(50, 45, 47, 34, 42, 49, 63, 62, 73, 59, 56, 50, 64, 60, 67, 67, 58, 59, 73, 77, 84,
    82, 80, 84, 89);
data2 = Array(61, 79, 85, 66, 53, 39, 24, 21, 37, 56, 37, 22, 21, 33, 13, 17, 4, 23, 16, 25, 9, 10,
    5, 7, 16);
labels = Array("0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15",
    "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24");

// Create a XYChart object of size 300 x 210 pixels. Set the background to pale yellow (0xffffc0)
// with a black border (0x0)
c = cd.XYChart(300, 210, "0xffffc0", "0x000000");

// Set the plotarea at (50, 30) and of size 240 x 140 pixels. Use white (0xffffff) background.
c.setPlotArea(50, 30, 240, 140).setBackground("0xffffff");

// Add a legend box at (50, 185) (below of plot area) using horizontal layout. Use 8pt Arial font
// with Transparent background.
c.addLegend(50, 185, False, "", 8).setBackground(cd.Transparent);

// Add a title box to the chart using 8pt Arial Bold font, with yellow (0xffff40) background and a
// black border (0x0)
c.addTitle("Sales Volume", "Arial Bold", 8).setBackground("0xffff40", 0);

// Set the y axis label format to US$nnnn
c.yAxis().setLabelFormat("US${value}");

// Set the labels on the x axis.
c.xAxis().setLabels(labels);

// Display 1 out of 2 labels on the x-axis. Show minor ticks for remaining labels.
c.xAxis().setLabelStep(2, 1);

// Add an stack area layer with three data sets
layer = c.addAreaLayer2(cd.Stack);
layer.addDataSet(data0, "0x4040ff", "Store ##1");
layer.addDataSet(data1, "0xff4040", "Store ##2");
layer.addDataSet(data2, "0x40ff40", "Store ##3");

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

// Include tool tip for the chart
imageMap1 = c.getHTMLImageMap("", "", "title='{dataSetName} sales at hour {xLabel}: US${value}K'");

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