ChartDirector 7.0 (ASP/COM/VB Edition)

Circular Zones




This example demonstrates adding circular zones to a polar chart.

In ChartDirector, a zone defined on the radial axis will mark a radius range, and so will appear as ring on a polar chart.

This example contains three circular zones in the plot area background, colored as red, green and blue. The blue region is the original background of the plot area, while the red and green regions are added using Axis.addZone of the radial axis object.

Source Code Listing

[Web Version (in ASP)] aspdemo\polarzones.asp
<%@ language="vbscript" %> <% Set cd = CreateObject("ChartDirector.API") ' The data for the chart data = Array(51, 15, 51, 40, 17, 87, 94, 21, 35, 88, 50, 60) ' The labels for the chart labels = Array("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec") ' Create a PolarChart object of size 400 x 420 pixels Set c = cd.PolarChart(400, 420) ' Set background color to a pale grey f0f0f0, with a black border and 1 pixel 3D border effect Call c.setBackground(&Hf0f0f0, &H000000, 1) ' Add a title to the chart using 16pt Arial Bold Italic font. The title text is white (0xffffff) on ' a dark blue (000040) background Call c.addTitle("Chemical Concentration", "Arial Bold Italic", 16, &Hffffff).setBackground( _ &H000040) ' Set center of plot area at (200, 240) with radius 145 pixels. Set background color to blue ' (9999ff) Call c.setPlotArea(200, 240, 145, &H9999ff) ' Color the region between radius = 40 to 80 as green (99ff99) Call c.radialAxis().addZone(40, 80, &H99ff99) ' Color the region with radius > 80 as red (ff9999) Call c.radialAxis().addZone(80, 999, &Hff9999) ' Set the grid style to circular grid Call c.setGridStyle(False) ' Set the radial axis label format Call c.radialAxis().setLabelFormat("{value} ppm") ' Use semi-transparent (40ffffff) label background so as not to block the data Call c.radialAxis().setLabelStyle().setBackground(&H40ffffff, &H40000000) ' Add a legend box at (200, 30) top center aligned, using 9pt Arial Bold font. with a black border. Set legendBox = c.addLegend(200, 30, False, "Arial Bold", 9) Call legendBox.setAlignment(cd.TopCenter) ' Add legend keys to represent the red/green/blue zones Call legendBox.addKey("Under-Absorp", &H9999ff) Call legendBox.addKey("Normal", &H99ff99) Call legendBox.addKey("Over-Absorp", &Hff9999) ' Add a blue (000080) spline line layer with line width set to 3 pixels and using yellow (ffff00) ' circles to represent the data points Set layer = c.addSplineLineLayer(data, &H000080) Call layer.setLineWidth(3) Call layer.setDataSymbol(cd.CircleShape, 11, &Hffff00) ' Set the labels to the angular axis as spokes. Call c.angularAxis().setLabels(labels) ' Output the chart Set viewer = cd.WebChartViewer(Request, "chart1") Call viewer.setChart(c, cd.SVG) ' Include tool tip for the chart. viewer.ImageMap = layer.getHTMLImageMap("", "", "title='Concentration on {label}: {value} ppm'") %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Circular Zones</title> <!-- Include ChartDirector Javascript Library to support chart interactions --> <script type="text/javascript" src="cdjcv.js"></script> </head> <body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px"> <div style="font:bold 18pt verdana;"> Circular Zones </div> <hr style="border:solid 1px #000080; background:#000080" /> <div style="font:10pt verdana; margin-bottom:1.5em"> <a href="viewsource.asp?file=<%= Request("SCRIPT_NAME") %>">View Chart Source Code</a> </div> <!-- ****** Here is the chart image ****** --> <%= viewer.renderHTML() %> </body> </html>

[Windows Version (in Visual Basic)] vbdemo\polarzones.cls
Public Sub createChart(viewer As Object, chartIndex As Integer) Dim cd As New ChartDirector.API ' The data for the chart Dim data() data = Array(51, 15, 51, 40, 17, 87, 94, 21, 35, 88, 50, 60) ' The labels for the chart Dim labels() labels = Array("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", _ "Dec") ' Create a PolarChart object of size 400 x 420 pixels Dim c As PolarChart Set c = cd.PolarChart(400, 420) ' Set background color to a 2 pixel pattern color, with a black border and 1 pixel 3D border ' effect Call c.setBackground(c.patternColor(Array(&Hffffff, &He0e0e0), 2), 0, 1) ' Add a title to the chart using 16pt Arial Bold Italic font. The title text is white (0xffffff) ' on 2 pixel pattern background Call c.addTitle("Chemical Concentration", "arialbi.ttf", 16, &Hffffff).setBackground( _ c.patternColor(Array(&H000000, &H000080), 2)) ' Set center of plot area at (200, 240) with radius 145 pixels. Set background color to blue ' (9999ff) Call c.setPlotArea(200, 240, 145, &H9999ff) ' Color the region between radius = 40 to 80 as green (99ff99) Call c.radialAxis().addZone(40, 80, &H99ff99) ' Color the region with radius > 80 as red (ff9999) Call c.radialAxis().addZone(80, 999, &Hff9999) ' Set the grid style to circular grid Call c.setGridStyle(False) ' Set the radial axis label format Call c.radialAxis().setLabelFormat("{value} ppm") ' Use semi-transparent (40ffffff) label background so as not to block the data Call c.radialAxis().setLabelStyle().setBackground(&H40ffffff, &H40000000) ' Add a legend box at (200, 30) top center aligned, using 9pt Arial Bold font. with a black ' border. Dim legendBox As LegendBox Set legendBox = c.addLegend(200, 30, False, "arialbd.ttf", 9) Call legendBox.setAlignment(cd.TopCenter) ' Add legend keys to represent the red/green/blue zones Call legendBox.addKey("Under-Absorp", &H9999ff) Call legendBox.addKey("Normal", &H99ff99) Call legendBox.addKey("Over-Absorp", &Hff9999) ' Add a blue (000080) spline line layer with line width set to 3 pixels and using yellow ' (ffff00) circles to represent the data points Dim layer As PolarSplineLineLayer Set layer = c.addSplineLineLayer(data, &H000080) Call layer.setLineWidth(3) Call layer.setDataSymbol(cd.CircleShape, 11, &Hffff00) ' Set the labels to the angular axis as spokes. Call c.angularAxis().setLabels(labels) ' Output the chart Set viewer.Picture = c.makePicture() ' Include tool tip for the chart. viewer.ImageMap = layer.getHTMLImageMap("clickable", "", _ "title='Concentration on {label}: {value} ppm'") End Sub