ChartDirector 7.0 (Perl Edition)

Line Comparison




This example demonstrates filling the area between two lines or curves, as well as a number of advanced chart formatting techniques.

ChartDirector supports filling the area between two lines. The lines can be from a LineLayer, SplineLayer, StepLineLayer, TrendLayer or from an axis Mark. Two colors can be used for filling, depending on which line is on top.

The effects in this example is achieved using the following methods:

Source Code Listing

perldemo\linecompare.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; # The data for the upper and lower bounding lines my $upperY = [60, 60, 100, 100, 60, 60]; my $lowerY = [40, 40, 80, 80, 40, 40]; my $zoneX = [0, 2.5, 3.5, 5.5, 6.5, 10]; # The data for the spline curve my $curveY = [50, 44, 54, 48, 58, 50, 90, 85, 104, 82, 96, 90, 74, 52, 35, 58, 46, 54, 48, 52, 50]; my $curveX = [0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10]; # Create a XYChart object of size 600 x 300 pixels, with a light grey (cccccc) background, black # border, and 1 pixel 3D border effect. my $c = new XYChart(600, 300, 0xcccccc, 0x000000, 1); # Set the plotarea at (55, 58) and of size 520 x 195 pixels, with white background. Turn on both # horizontal and vertical grid lines with light grey color (cccccc) $c->setPlotArea(55, 58, 520, 195, 0xffffff, -1, -1, 0xcccccc, 0xcccccc); # Add a legend box at (55, 32) (top of the chart) with horizontal layout. Use 9pt Arial Bold font. # Set the background and border color to Transparent. $c->addLegend(55, 32, 0, "Arial Bold", 9)->setBackground($perlchartdir::Transparent); # Add a title box to the chart using 15pt Times Bold Italic font. The title is in CDML and includes # embedded images for highlight. The text is white (ffffff) on a black background, with a 1 pixel 3D # border. $c->addTitle( "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=star.png*><*img=star.png*> Performance Enhancer ". "<*img=star.png*><*img=star.png*><*/*>", "Times New Roman Bold Italic", 15, 0xffffff )->setBackground(0x000000, -1, 1); # Add a title to the y axis $c->yAxis()->setTitle("Temperature"); # Add a title to the x axis using CMDL $c->xAxis()->setTitle("<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=clock.png*> Elapsed Time (hour)<*/*>"); # Set the axes width to 2 pixels $c->xAxis()->setWidth(2); $c->yAxis()->setWidth(2); # Add a purple (800080) spline layer to the chart with a line width of 2 pixels my $splineLayer = $c->addSplineLayer($curveY, 0x800080, "Molecular Temperature"); $splineLayer->setXData($curveX); $splineLayer->setLineWidth(2); # Add a line layer to the chart with two dark green (338033) data sets, and a line width of 2 pixels my $lineLayer = $c->addLineLayer2(); $lineLayer->addDataSet($upperY, 0x338033, "Target Zone"); $lineLayer->addDataSet($lowerY, 0x338033); $lineLayer->setXData($zoneX); $lineLayer->setLineWidth(2); # Color the zone between the upper zone line and lower zone line as semi-transparent light green # (8099ff99) $c->addInterLineLayer($lineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(1), 0x8099ff99, 0x8099ff99); # If the spline line gets above the upper zone line, color to area between the lines red (ff0000) $c->addInterLineLayer($splineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(0), 0xff0000, $perlchartdir::Transparent); # If the spline line gets below the lower zone line, color to area between the lines blue (0000ff) $c->addInterLineLayer($splineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(1), $perlchartdir::Transparent, 0x0000ff); # Add a custom CDML text at the bottom right of the plot area as the logo $c->addText(575, 250, "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=small_molecule.png*> <*block*><*font=Times New Roman Bold ". "Italic,size=10,color=804040*>Molecular\nEngineering<*/*>")->setAlignment( $perlchartdir::BottomRight); # Output the chart $c->makeChart("linecompare.png");