ChartDirector 7.0 (Perl Edition)

Pyramid Rotation


            

This example demonstrates viewing the pyramid at different rotation angles, configured with PyramidChart.setViewAngle.

Source Code Listing

perldemo\pyramidrotation.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; sub createChart { my $chartIndex = shift; # The data for the pyramid chart my $data = [156, 123, 211, 179]; # The semi-transparent colors for the pyramid layers my $colors = [0x400000cc, 0x4066aaee, 0x40ffbb00, 0x40ee6622]; # The rotation angle my $angle = $chartIndex * 15; # Create a PyramidChart object of size 200 x 200 pixels, with white (ffffff) background and grey # (888888) border my $c = new PyramidChart(200, 200, 0xffffff, 0x888888); # Set the pyramid center at (100, 100), and width x height to 60 x 120 pixels $c->setPyramidSize(100, 100, 60, 120); # Set the elevation to 15 degrees and use the given rotation angle $c->addTitle("Rotation = $angle", "Arial Italic", 15); $c->setViewAngle(15, $angle); # Set the pyramid data $c->setData($data); # Set the layer colors to the given colors $c->setColors2($perlchartdir::DataColor, $colors); # Leave 1% gaps between layers $c->setLayerGap(0.01); # Output the chart $c->makeChart("pyramidrotation$chartIndex.png"); } createChart(0); createChart(1); createChart(2); createChart(3); createChart(4); createChart(5); createChart(6);