ChartDirector 7.1 (C++ Edition)

Polar Spline Chart




This example demonstrates polar spline line and polar spline area.

The polar spline line is created using PolarChart.addSplineLineLayer. The polar spline area is created using PolarChart.addSplineAreaLayer.

Source Code Listing

The following is the command line version of the code in "cppdemo/polarspline". 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[]) { // The data for the chart double data0[] = {5.1, 2.6, 1.5, 2.2, 5.1, 4.3, 4.0, 9.0, 1.7, 8.8, 9.9, 9.5, 9.4, 1.8, 2.1, 2.3, 3.5, 7.7, 8.8, 6.1, 5.0, 3.1, 6.0, 4.3}; const int data0_size = (int)(sizeof(data0)/sizeof(*data0)); double angles0[] = {0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 195, 210, 225, 240, 255, 270, 285, 300, 315, 330, 345}; const int angles0_size = (int)(sizeof(angles0)/sizeof(*angles0)); double data1[] = {8.1, 2.5, 5, 5.2, 6.5, 8.5, 9, 7.6, 8.7, 6.4, 5.5, 5.4, 3.0, 8.7, 7.1, 8.8, 7.9, 2.2, 5.0, 4.0, 1.5, 7.5, 8.3, 9.0}; const int data1_size = (int)(sizeof(data1)/sizeof(*data1)); double angles1[] = {0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 195, 210, 225, 240, 255, 270, 285, 300, 315, 330, 345}; const int angles1_size = (int)(sizeof(angles1)/sizeof(*angles1)); // Create a PolarChart object of size 460 x 460 pixels PolarChart* c = new PolarChart(460, 460); // Add a title to the chart at the top left corner using 15pt Arial Bold Italic font c->addTitle(Chart::TopLeft, "<*underline=2*>EM Field Strength", "Arial Bold Italic", 15); // Set center of plot area at (230, 240) with radius 180 pixels c->setPlotArea(230, 240, 180); // Set the grid style to circular grid c->setGridStyle(false); // Add a legend box at the top right corner of the chart using 9pt Arial Bold font c->addLegend(459, 0, true, "Arial Bold", 9)->setAlignment(Chart::TopRight); // Set angular axis as 0 - 360, with a spoke every 30 units c->angularAxis()->setLinearScale(0, 360, 30); // Add a red (0xff9999) spline area layer to the chart using (data0, angles0) c->addSplineAreaLayer(DoubleArray(data0, data0_size), 0xff9999, "Above 100MHz")->setAngles( DoubleArray(angles0, angles0_size)); // Add a blue (0xff) spline line layer to the chart using (data1, angle1) PolarSplineLineLayer* layer1 = c->addSplineLineLayer(DoubleArray(data1, data1_size), 0x0000ff, "Below 100MHz"); layer1->setAngles(DoubleArray(angles1, angles1_size)); // Set the line width to 3 pixels layer1->setLineWidth(3); // Output the chart c->makeChart("polarspline.png"); //free up resources delete c; return 0; }