ChartDirector 7.0 (Java Edition)

Real-Time MultiChart




This example demonstrates a real-time multichart with track cursor.

The example is modified from the Real-Time Chart with Track Line example with the following changes:

Source Code Listing

[JSP Version] jspdemo/realtimemultichart.jsp
<%@page import="ChartDirector.*, java.util.*" %> <%! // // Draw a single chart // private XYChart drawXYChart(WebChartViewer viewer, Date[] timeStamps, double[] dataSeries, String name, int color, Axis xAxisScale, boolean xAxisVisible) { // Only the last chart has an x-axis int xAxisHeight = 25; if (!xAxisVisible) { xAxisHeight = 0; } // Create an XYChart object of size 640 x 120 pixels (excluding x-axis height) XYChart c = new XYChart(640, 120 + xAxisHeight); // Set the plotarea at (55, 10) with width 85 pixels less than chart width, and height 20 pixels // less than chart height. Use a vertical gradient from light blue (f0f6ff) to sky blue (a0c0ff) // as background. Set border to transparent and grid lines to white (ffffff). c.setPlotArea(55, 10, c.getWidth() - 85, c.getHeight() - 20 - xAxisHeight, c.linearGradientColor(0, 10, 0, c.getHeight() - 20 - xAxisHeight, 0xf0f6ff, 0xa0c0ff), -1, Chart.Transparent, 0xffffff, 0xffffff); // As the data can lie outside the plotarea in a zoomed chart, we need enable clipping. c.setClipping(); // Add a legend box at (55, 5) using horizontal layout. Use 8pts Arial Bold as font. Set the // background and border color to Transparent and use line style legend key. LegendBox b = c.addLegend(55, 5, false, "Arial Bold", 10); b.setBackground(Chart.Transparent); b.setLineStyleKey(); // Set the x and y axis stems to transparent and the label font to 10pt Arial c.xAxis().setColors(Chart.Transparent); c.yAxis().setColors(Chart.Transparent); c.xAxis().setLabelStyle("Arial", 10); c.yAxis().setLabelStyle("Arial", 10); // Add axis title using 10pts Arial Bold Italic font c.yAxis().setTitle(name, "Arial Bold", 10); //================================================================================ // Add data to chart //================================================================================ // Add a line layer with the given data, with a line width of 2 pixels. LineLayer layer = c.addLineLayer(); layer.setLineWidth(2); layer.setXData(timeStamps); layer.addDataSet(dataSeries, color, name); //================================================================================ // Configure axis scale and labelling //================================================================================ // For the automatic axis labels, set the minimum spacing to 30 pixels for the y axis. c.yAxis().setTickDensity(30); if (xAxisScale == null) { // If xAxisScale is given, then use it to synchronize with other charts. c.xAxis().copyAxis(xAxisScale); } else { // Set the x-axis label format c.xAxis().setLabelFormat("{value|hh:nn:ss}"); } // Hide the x-axis if it is not visible. if (!xAxisVisible) { c.xAxis().setColors(Chart.Transparent, Chart.Transparent); } //================================================================================ // Output the chart //================================================================================ return c; } // // Draw the MultiChart // private void drawChart(WebChartViewer viewer) { // // Data to draw the chart. In this demo, the data buffer will be filled by a random data // generator. In real life, the data is probably stored in a buffer (eg. a database table, a // text file, or some global memory) and updated by other means. // // We use a data buffer to emulate the last 240 samples. int sampleSize = 240; double[] dataSeries1 = new double[sampleSize]; double[] dataSeries2 = new double[sampleSize]; double[] dataSeries3 = new double[sampleSize]; Date[] timeStamps = new Date[sampleSize]; // Our pseudo random number generator double firstDate = new Date().getTime() / 1000 - timeStamps.length; for(int i = 0; i < timeStamps.length; ++i) { double p = firstDate + i; timeStamps[i] = new Date((long)p * 1000); dataSeries1[i] = Math.cos(p * 2.1) * 10 + 1 / (Math.cos(p) * Math.cos(p) + 0.01) + 20; dataSeries2[i] = 100 * Math.sin(p / 27.7) * Math.sin(p / 10.1) + 150; dataSeries3[i] = 100 * Math.cos(p / 6.7) * Math.cos(p / 11.9) + 150; } // The MultiChart, initially set to a height 10 pixels as the top margin. MultiChart m = new MultiChart(640, 10); // This first chart is responsible for setting up the x-axis scale. XYChart xyc = drawXYChart(viewer, timeStamps, dataSeries1, "Alpha", 0xff0000, null, false); Axis xAxisScale = xyc.xAxis(); // Add the XYChart to the MultiChart and increase the MultiChart height m.addChart(0, m.getHeight(), xyc); m.setSize(m.getWidth(), m.getHeight() + xyc.getHeight()); // All other charts synchronize their x-axes with that of the first chart. xyc = drawXYChart(viewer, timeStamps, dataSeries2, "Beta", 0x008800, xAxisScale, false); // Add the XYChart to the MultiChart and increase the MultiChart height m.addChart(0, m.getHeight(), xyc); m.setSize(m.getWidth(), m.getHeight() + xyc.getHeight()); // The last chart displays the x-axis. xyc = drawXYChart(viewer, timeStamps, dataSeries3, "Gamma", 0x0000ff, xAxisScale, true); // Add the XYChart to the MultiChart and increase the MultiChart height m.addChart(0, m.getHeight(), xyc); m.setSize(m.getWidth(), m.getHeight() + xyc.getHeight()); // Set the combined plot area to be the bounding box of the plot areas of the 3 charts m.setMainChart(m); // Output the chart viewer.setChart(m, Chart.SVG); // Output Javascript chart model to the browser to support tracking cursor viewer.setChartModel(m.getJsChartModel()); } %> <% // // This script handles both the full page request, as well as the subsequent partial updates (AJAX // chart updates). We need to determine the type of request first before we processing it. // // Create the WebChartViewer object WebChartViewer viewer = new WebChartViewer(request, "chart1"); if (viewer.isPartialUpdateRequest()) { // Is a partial update request. Draw the chart and perform a partial response. drawChart(viewer); out.clear(); viewer.partialUpdateChart(response); return; } // // If the code reaches here, it is a full page request. // drawChart(viewer); %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Real Time MultiChart</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="cdjcv.js"></script> </head> <body style="margin:0px"> <script type="text/javascript"> // // Execute the following initialization code after the web page is loaded // JsChartViewer.addEventListener(window, 'load', function() { var viewer = JsChartViewer.get('<%=viewer.getId()%>'); // Draw track cursor when mouse is moving over plotarea. Hide it when mouse leaves plot area. viewer.attachHandler(["MouseMovePlotArea", "TouchStartPlotArea", "TouchMovePlotArea", "ChartMove", "PostUpdate", "Now"], function(e) { this.preventDefault(e); // Prevent the browser from using touch events for other actions multiTrackLineLabel(viewer, viewer.getPlotAreaMouseX()); }); // When the chart is being updated, by default, an "Updating" box will pop up. In this example, we // will disable this box. viewer.updatingMsg = ""; }); // // Draw track line for a MultiChart // function multiTrackLineLabel(viewer, mouseX) { // Remove all previously drawn tracking object viewer.hideObj("all"); // Use a loop to draw track labels for the XYCharts inside the MultiChart for (var i = 0; i < viewer.getChartCount(); ++i) // Only the bottom chart (i == viewer.getChartCount() - 1) needs x-axis label. xyChartTrackLabel(viewer, mouseX, viewer.getChart(i), i, i == viewer.getChartCount() - 1); } // // Draw xy chart track label // function xyChartTrackLabel(viewer, mouseX, c, id, needXAxisLabel) { // The plot area var plotArea = c.getPlotArea(); // The XYChart API object obtains the various coordinates relative to the top-left corner // of the XYChart. However, it needs to draw the track cursor on the MultiChart. So we need // to obtain the coordinates of the XYChart top-left corner inside the MultiChart. var originX = c.getAbsOffsetX(); var originY = c.getAbsOffsetY(); // Get the data x-value that is nearest to the mouse, and find its pixel coordinate. var xValue = c.getNearestXValue(mouseX); var xCoor = originX + c.getXCoor(xValue); // Draw a vertical track line at the x-position viewer.drawVLine("trackLine_" + id, xCoor, originY + plotArea.getTopY(), originY + plotArea.getBottomY(), "black 1px dotted"); // Only the last chart needs to draw the x-axis label if (needXAxisLabel) { viewer.showTextBox("xAxisLabel_" + id, xCoor, originY + plotArea.getBottomY() + 5, JsChartViewer.Top, c.xAxis().getFormattedLabel(xValue, "hh:nn:ss"), "font:bold 13px Arial;color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;padding:0px 3px"); } // Iterate through all layers to draw the data labels for (var i = 0; i < c.getLayerCount(); ++i) { var layer = c.getLayerByZ(i); // The data array index of the x-value var xIndex = layer.getXIndexOf(xValue); // Iterate through all the data sets in the layer for (var j = 0; j < layer.getDataSetCount(); ++j) { var dataSet = layer.getDataSetByZ(j); // Get the color and position of the data label var color = dataSet.getDataColor(); var yCoor = c.getYCoor(dataSet.getPosition(xIndex), dataSet.getUseYAxis()); // Draw a track dot with a label next to it for visible data points in the plot area if ((yCoor != null) && (yCoor >= plotArea.getTopY()) && (yCoor <= plotArea.getBottomY()) && (color != null)) { viewer.showTextBox("dataPoint_" + id + "_" + i + "_" + j, xCoor, originY + yCoor, JsChartViewer.Center, viewer.htmlRect(7, 7, color)); viewer.showTextBox("dataLabel" + id + "_" + i + "_" + j, xCoor + 5, originY + yCoor, JsChartViewer.Left, dataSet.getValue(xIndex).toPrecision(4), "padding:0px 3px;font:bold 13px Arial;background-color:" + color + ";color:#FFFFFF;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%;"); } } } } // // Executes once every second to update the countdown display. Updates the chart when the countdown reaches 0. // function timerTick() { // Get the update period and the time left var updatePeriod = parseInt(document.getElementById("UpdatePeriod").value); var timeLeft = Math.min(parseInt(document.getElementById("TimeRemaining").innerHTML), updatePeriod) - 1; if (timeLeft == 0) // Can update the chart now JsChartViewer.get('<%=viewer.getId()%>').partialUpdate(); else if (timeLeft < 0) // Reset the update period timeLeft += updatePeriod; // Update the countdown display document.getElementById("TimeRemaining").innerHTML = timeLeft; } window.setInterval("timerTick()", 1000); </script> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td align="right" colspan="2" style="background:#000088; color:#ffff00; padding:0px 4px 2px 0px;"> <a style="color:#FFFF00; font:italic bold 10pt Arial; text-decoration:none" href="http://www.advsofteng.com/"> Advanced Software Engineering </a> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:150px; background:#c0c0ff; border-right:black 1px solid; border-bottom:black 1px solid;"> <br /> <br /> <div style="font: 9pt Verdana; padding:10px;"> <b>Update Period</b><br /> <select id="UpdatePeriod" style="width:130px"> <option value="5" selected="selected">5</option> <option value="10">10</option> <option value="20">20</option> <option value="30">30</option> <option value="60">60</option> </select> </div> <div style="font:9pt Verdana; padding:10px;"> <b>Time Remaining</b><br /> <div style="width:128px; border:#888888 1px inset;"> <div style="margin:3px" id="TimeRemaining">0</div> </div> </div> </td> <td> <div style="font: bold 20pt Arial; margin:5px 0px 0px 5px;"> Real Time MultiChart </div> <hr style="border:solid 1px #000080" /> <div style="padding:0px 5px 5px 10px"> <!-- ****** Here is the chart image ****** --> <%=viewer.renderHTML(response)%> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>