This example demonstrates rectangular angular meters.
The angular span of the meter scale in this example is from -60 to 60 degrees, which is one third of a circle. The meter is configured to have a rectangular frame with rounded corners. A semi-transparent rectangle is put at the bottom of the meter to create the object that covers the meter cap. The rectangle is created by using
BaseChart.addText to create an empty text box, and then use
Box.setSize and
Box.setBackground to configure it to have the proper size and color.
pythondemo\rectangularmeter.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# The ChartDirector for Python module is assumed to be in "../lib"
import sys, os
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.path[0]), "..", "lib"))
from pychartdir import *
def createChart(chartIndex) :
# The value to display on the meter
value = 72.55
# Create an AngularMeter object of size 240 x 170 pixels with very light grey (0xeeeeee)
# background, and a rounded 4-pixel thick light grey (0xcccccc) border
m = AngularMeter(240, 170, 0xeeeeee, 0xcccccc)
m.setRoundedFrame(Transparent)
m.setThickFrame(4)
# Set the default text and line colors to dark grey (0x222222)
m.setColor(TextColor, 0x222222)
m.setColor(LineColor, 0x222222)
# Center at (120, 145), scale radius = 128 pixels, scale angle -60 to +60 degrees
m.setMeter(120, 145, 128, -60, 60)
# Meter scale is 0 - 100, with major/minor/micro ticks every 20/10/5 units
m.setScale(0, 100, 20, 10, 5)
# Set the scale label style to 14pt Arial Italic. Set the major/minor/micro tick lengths to
# 16/16/10 pixels pointing inwards, and their widths to 2/1/1 pixels.
m.setLabelStyle("Arial Italic", 14)
m.setTickLength(-16, -16, -10)
m.setLineWidth(0, 2, 1, 1)
# Demostrate different types of color scales and putting them at different positions
smoothColorScale = [0, 0x3333ff, 25, 0x0088ff, 50, 0x00ff00, 75, 0xdddd00, 100, 0xff0000]
stepColorScale = [0, 0x00cc00, 60, 0xffdd00, 80, 0xee0000, 100]
highLowColorScale = [0, 0x00ff00, 70, Transparent, 100, 0xff0000]
if chartIndex == 0 :
# Add the smooth color scale at the default position
m.addColorScale(smoothColorScale)
elif chartIndex == 1 :
# Add the smooth color scale starting at radius 128 with zero width and ending at radius 128
# with 16 pixels inner width
m.addColorScale(smoothColorScale, 128, 0, 128, -16)
elif chartIndex == 2 :
# Add the smooth color scale starting at radius 70 with zero width and ending at radius 60
# with 20 pixels outer width
m.addColorScale(smoothColorScale, 70, 0, 60, 20)
elif chartIndex == 3 :
# Add the high/low color scale at the default position
m.addColorScale(highLowColorScale)
elif chartIndex == 4 :
# Add the step color scale at the default position
m.addColorScale(stepColorScale)
else :
# Add the smooth color scale at radius 60 with 15 pixels outer width
m.addColorScale(smoothColorScale, 60, 15)
# Add a text label centered at (120, 120) with 15pt Arial Italic font
m.addText(120, 120, "CPU", "Arial Italic", 15, TextColor, BottomCenter)
# Add a red (0xff0000) pointer at the specified value
m.addPointer2(value, 0xff0000)
# Add a semi-transparent light grey (0x3fcccccc) rectangle at (0, 120) and of size 240 x 60
# pixels to cover the bottom part of the meter for decoration
cover = m.addText(0, 120, "")
cover.setSize(240, 60)
cover.setBackground(0x3fcccccc)
# Output the chart
m.makeChart("rectangularmeter%s.png" % chartIndex)
createChart(0)
createChart(1)
createChart(2)
createChart(3)
createChart(4)
createChart(5)
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