Stacked Bar Chart

This example demonstrates creating a stacked bar chart, completed with bar labels and legend box.

The key features demonstrated in this example are:

Add a legend to the chart using BaseChart.addLegend.
The legend box is configured to have no border by setting the border color to transparent using Box.setBackground.
By default, the legend icon has a black border. This is to allow white or light color icons to be more visible on a white background. In this example, no such colors are used, and the icon border is disabled by setting its color to the same as the icon fill color. This is by using LegendBox.setKeyBorder with SameAsMainColor.
Add a stacked bar layer using XYChart.addBarLayer2 with the Stack predefined constant.
Add multiple data sets to the bar layer using Layer.addDataSet.
Add labels to the whole bar using Layer.setAggregateLabelStyle.
Add labels to the bar segments within a stacked bar using Layer.setDataLabelStyle.

For bar labels, Layer.setDataLabelStyle and Layer.setAggregateLabelStyle control the styles (fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc), while Layer.setDataLabelFormat and Layer.setAggregateLabelFormat control the formats (the label text, number of decimal points, etc). You can also add custom labels to the bars using Layer.addCustomDataLabel, Layer.addCustomAggregateLabel and Layer.addCustomGroupLabel.

[Ruby On Rails Version - Controller] app/controllers/stackedbar_controller.rb

require("chartdirector")

class StackedbarController < ApplicationController

    def index()
        @title = "Stacked Bar Chart"
        @ctrl_file = File.expand_path(__FILE__)
        @noOfCharts = 1
        render :template => "templates/chartview"
    end

    #
    # Render and deliver the chart
    #
    def getchart()
        # The data for the bar chart
        data0 = [100, 115, 165, 107, 67]
        data1 = [85, 106, 129, 161, 123]
        data2 = [67, 87, 86, 167, 157]

        # The labels for the bar chart
        labels = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri"]

        # Create a XYChart object of size 600 x 360 pixels
        c = ChartDirector::XYChart.new(600, 360)

        # Set the plotarea at (70, 20) and of size 400 x 300 pixels, with transparent background and
        # border and light grey (0xcccccc) horizontal grid lines
        c.setPlotArea(70, 20, 400, 300, ChartDirector::Transparent, -1, ChartDirector::Transparent,
            0xcccccc)

        # Add a legend box at (480, 20) using vertical layout and 12pt Arial font. Set background
        # and border to transparent and key icon border to the same as the fill color.
        b = c.addLegend(480, 20, true, "arial.ttf", 12)
        b.setBackground(ChartDirector::Transparent, ChartDirector::Transparent)
        b.setKeyBorder(ChartDirector::SameAsMainColor)

        # Set the x and y axis stems to transparent and the label font to 12pt Arial
        c.xAxis().setColors(ChartDirector::Transparent)
        c.yAxis().setColors(ChartDirector::Transparent)
        c.xAxis().setLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)
        c.yAxis().setLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)

        # Add a stacked bar layer
        layer = c.addBarLayer2(ChartDirector::Stack)

        # Add the three data sets to the bar layer
        layer.addDataSet(data0, 0xaaccee, "Server # 1")
        layer.addDataSet(data1, 0xbbdd88, "Server # 2")
        layer.addDataSet(data2, 0xeeaa66, "Server # 3")

        # Set the bar border to transparent
        layer.setBorderColor(ChartDirector::Transparent)

        # Enable labelling for the entire bar and use 12pt Arial font
        layer.setAggregateLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)

        # Enable labelling for the bar segments and use 12pt Arial font with center alignment
        layer.setDataLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 10).setAlignment(ChartDirector::Center)

        # For a vertical stacked bar with positive data, the first data set is at the bottom. For
        # the legend box, by default, the first entry at the top. We can reverse the legend order to
        # make the legend box consistent with the stacked bar.
        layer.setLegendOrder(ChartDirector::ReverseLegend)

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

        # For the automatic y-axis labels, set the minimum spacing to 40 pixels.
        c.yAxis().setTickDensity(40)

        # Add a title to the y axis using dark grey (0x555555) 14pt Arial Bold font
        c.yAxis().setTitle("Y-Axis Title Placeholder", "arialbd.ttf", 14, 0x555555)

        # Output the chart
        send_data(c.makeChart2(ChartDirector::PNG), :type => "image/png", :disposition => "inline")

    end

end

[Ruby On Rails Version - View] app/views/templates/chartview.html.erb

<html>
<body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px">

<!-- Title -->
<div style="font-size:18pt; font-family:verdana; font-weight:bold">
    <%= @title %>
</div>
<hr style="border:solid 1px #000080" />

<!-- Source Code Listing Link -->
<div style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana; margin-bottom:1.5em">
    <%= link_to "Source Code Listing", 
        :controller => "cddemo", :action => "viewsource",
        :ctrl_file => @ctrl_file, :view_file => File.expand_path(__FILE__) %>
</div>

<!-- Create one or more IMG tags to display the demo chart(s) -->
<% 0.upto(@noOfCharts - 1) do |i| %>
    <img src="<%= url_for(:action => "getchart", :img => i) %>">
<% end %>

</body>
</html>

[Command Line Version] rubydemo/stackedbar.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require("chartdirector")

# The data for the bar chart
data0 = [100, 115, 165, 107, 67]
data1 = [85, 106, 129, 161, 123]
data2 = [67, 87, 86, 167, 157]

# The labels for the bar chart
labels = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri"]

# Create a XYChart object of size 600 x 360 pixels
c = ChartDirector::XYChart.new(600, 360)

# Set the plotarea at (70, 20) and of size 400 x 300 pixels, with transparent background and border
# and light grey (0xcccccc) horizontal grid lines
c.setPlotArea(70, 20, 400, 300, ChartDirector::Transparent, -1, ChartDirector::Transparent, 0xcccccc
    )

# Add a legend box at (480, 20) using vertical layout and 12pt Arial font. Set background and border
# to transparent and key icon border to the same as the fill color.
b = c.addLegend(480, 20, true, "arial.ttf", 12)
b.setBackground(ChartDirector::Transparent, ChartDirector::Transparent)
b.setKeyBorder(ChartDirector::SameAsMainColor)

# Set the x and y axis stems to transparent and the label font to 12pt Arial
c.xAxis().setColors(ChartDirector::Transparent)
c.yAxis().setColors(ChartDirector::Transparent)
c.xAxis().setLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)
c.yAxis().setLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)

# Add a stacked bar layer
layer = c.addBarLayer2(ChartDirector::Stack)

# Add the three data sets to the bar layer
layer.addDataSet(data0, 0xaaccee, "Server # 1")
layer.addDataSet(data1, 0xbbdd88, "Server # 2")
layer.addDataSet(data2, 0xeeaa66, "Server # 3")

# Set the bar border to transparent
layer.setBorderColor(ChartDirector::Transparent)

# Enable labelling for the entire bar and use 12pt Arial font
layer.setAggregateLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 12)

# Enable labelling for the bar segments and use 12pt Arial font with center alignment
layer.setDataLabelStyle("arial.ttf", 10).setAlignment(ChartDirector::Center)

# For a vertical stacked bar with positive data, the first data set is at the bottom. For the legend
# box, by default, the first entry at the top. We can reverse the legend order to make the legend
# box consistent with the stacked bar.
layer.setLegendOrder(ChartDirector::ReverseLegend)

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

# For the automatic y-axis labels, set the minimum spacing to 40 pixels.
c.yAxis().setTickDensity(40)

# Add a title to the y axis using dark grey (0x555555) 14pt Arial Bold font
c.yAxis().setTitle("Y-Axis Title Placeholder", "arialbd.ttf", 14, 0x555555)

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