ChartDirector 7.0 (Perl Edition)

Pyramid Gap


          

This example demonstrates the effects of different pyramid layer gap sizes, configured with PyramidChart.setLayerGap.

Source Code Listing

perldemo\pyramidgap.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl # The ChartDirector for Perl module is assumed to be in "../lib" use File::Basename; use lib (dirname($0)."/../lib") =~ /(.*)/; use perlchartdir; sub createChart { my $chartIndex = shift; # The data for the pyramid chart my $data = [156, 123, 211, 179]; # The colors for the pyramid layers my $colors = [0x66aaee, 0xeebb22, 0xcccccc, 0xcc88ff]; # The layer gap my $gap = $chartIndex * 0.01; # Create a PyramidChart object of size 200 x 200 pixels, with white (ffffff) background and grey # (888888) border my $c = new PyramidChart(200, 200, 0xffffff, 0x888888); # Set the pyramid center at (100, 100), and width x height to 60 x 120 pixels $c->setPyramidSize(100, 100, 60, 120); # Set the layer gap $c->addTitle("Gap = $gap", "Arial Italic", 15); $c->setLayerGap($gap); # Set the elevation to 15 degrees $c->setViewAngle(15); # Set the pyramid data $c->setData($data); # Set the layer colors to the given colors $c->setColors2($perlchartdir::DataColor, $colors); # Output the chart $c->makeChart("pyramidgap$chartIndex.png"); } createChart(0); createChart(1); createChart(2); createChart(3); createChart(4); createChart(5);