Multi-Cylinder Chart

This example demonstrates a multi-bar chart with cylinder shading effects. It also demonstrates using dotted line style for grid lines.

The cylinder shading effect is the result of using the cylinder bar shape in 2D. This is by using BarLayer.setBarShape with CircleShape.

The dotted grid lines in this example is configured by using BaseChart.dashLineColor to define the dotted line color, then use it in XYChart.setPlotArea as the the grid line color.

pythondemo\multicylinder.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# The ChartDirector for Python module is assumed to be in "../lib"
import sys, os
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.path[0]), "..", "lib"))

from pychartdir import *

# Data for the chart
data0 = [100, 125, 245, 147, 67, 96, 160, 145, 97, 167, 220, 125]
data1 = [85, 156, 179, 211, 123, 225, 127, 99, 111, 260, 175, 156]
data2 = [97, 87, 56, 267, 157, 157, 67, 156, 77, 87, 197, 87]
labels = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]

# Create a XYChart object of size 560 x 280 pixels.
c = XYChart(560, 280)

# Add a title to the chart using 14pt Arial Bold Italic font
c.addTitle("     Average Weekly Network Load", "Arial Bold Italic", 14)

# Set the plotarea at (50, 50) and of 500 x 200 pixels in size. Use alternating light grey (f8f8f8)
# / white (ffffff) background. Set border to transparent and use grey (CCCCCC) dotted lines as
# horizontal and vertical grid lines
c.setPlotArea(50, 50, 500, 200, 0xffffff, 0xf8f8f8, Transparent, c.dashLineColor(0xcccccc, DotLine),
    c.dashLineColor(0xcccccc, DotLine))

# Add a legend box at (50, 22) using horizontal layout. Use 10 pt Arial Bold Italic font, with
# transparent background
c.addLegend(50, 22, 0, "Arial Bold Italic", 10).setBackground(Transparent)

# Set the x axis labels
c.xAxis().setLabels(labels)

# Draw the ticks between label positions (instead of at label positions)
c.xAxis().setTickOffset(0.5)

# Add axis title
c.yAxis().setTitle("Throughput (MBytes Per Hour)")

# Set axis line width to 2 pixels
c.xAxis().setWidth(2)
c.yAxis().setWidth(2)

# Add a multi-bar layer with 3 data sets
layer = c.addBarLayer2(Side)
layer.addDataSet(data0, 0xff0000, "Server #1")
layer.addDataSet(data1, 0x00ff00, "Server #2")
layer.addDataSet(data2, 0x0000ff, "Server #3")

# Set bar shape to circular (cylinder)
layer.setBarShape(CircleShape)

# Configure the bars within a group to touch each others (no gap)
layer.setBarGap(0.2, TouchBar)

# Output the chart
c.makeChart("multicylinder.png")