ChartDirector 7.1 (C++ Edition)

Horizontal Box-Whisker Chart




This example demonstrates creating a multi-color horizontal box-whisker chart.

XYChart.addBoxWhiskerLayer2 is used to create the multi-color box-whisker layer. The chart is set to horizontal orientation using XYChart.swapXY.

Source Code Listing

The following is the command line version of the code in "cppdemo/hboxwhisker". The MFC version of the code is in "mfcdemo/mfcdemo". The Qt Widgets version of the code is in "qtdemo/qtdemo". The QML/Qt Quick version of the code is in "qmldemo/qmldemo".
#include "chartdir.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { // Sample data for the Box-Whisker chart. Represents the minimum, 1st quartile, medium, 3rd // quartile and maximum values of some quantities double Q0Data[] = {40, 45, 35}; const int Q0Data_size = (int)(sizeof(Q0Data)/sizeof(*Q0Data)); double Q1Data[] = {55, 60, 50}; const int Q1Data_size = (int)(sizeof(Q1Data)/sizeof(*Q1Data)); double Q2Data[] = {62, 70, 60}; const int Q2Data_size = (int)(sizeof(Q2Data)/sizeof(*Q2Data)); double Q3Data[] = {70, 80, 65}; const int Q3Data_size = (int)(sizeof(Q3Data)/sizeof(*Q3Data)); double Q4Data[] = {80, 90, 75}; const int Q4Data_size = (int)(sizeof(Q4Data)/sizeof(*Q4Data)); // The labels for the chart const char* labels[] = {"<*img=robot1.png*><*br*>Bipedal Type", "<*img=robot2.png*><*br*>Wolf Type", "<*img=robot5.png*><*br*>Bird Type"}; const int labels_size = (int)(sizeof(labels)/sizeof(*labels)); // Create a XYChart object of size 540 x 320 pixels XYChart* c = new XYChart(540, 320); // swap the x and y axes to create a horizontal box-whisker chart c->swapXY(); // Set the plotarea at (75, 25) and of size 440 x 270 pixels. Enable both horizontal and // vertical grids by setting their colors to grey (0xc0c0c0) c->setPlotArea(75, 25, 440, 270)->setGridColor(0xc0c0c0, 0xc0c0c0); // Add a title to the chart c->addTitle(" Robot Shooting Accuracy Scores"); // Set the labels on the x axis and the font to Arial Bold c->xAxis()->setLabels(StringArray(labels, labels_size))->setFontStyle("Arial Bold"); // Disable x axis ticks by setting the length to 0 c->xAxis()->setTickLength(0); // Set the font for the y axis labels to Arial Bold c->yAxis()->setLabelStyle("Arial Bold"); // Add a Box Whisker layer using light blue 0x9999ff as the fill color and blue (0xcc) as the // line color. Set the line width to 2 pixels c->addBoxWhiskerLayer2(DoubleArray(Q3Data, Q3Data_size), DoubleArray(Q1Data, Q1Data_size), DoubleArray(Q4Data, Q4Data_size), DoubleArray(Q0Data, Q0Data_size), DoubleArray(Q2Data, Q2Data_size))->setLineWidth(2); // Output the chart c->makeChart("hboxwhisker.png"); //free up resources delete c; return 0; }