The BaseMeter class represents a generic meter. It is the base class for
| Method | Inherited | Description |
| setScale | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale. |
| setScale2 | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale with the given text labels and tick positions. |
| setScale3 | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale with the given numeric labels and tick positions. |
| addPointer | (Self) | Adds a pointer to the meter. |
| setLabelStyle | (Self) | Sets the font style used to for the meter labels. |
| setLabelFormat | (Self) | Sets the format of the labels computed by ChartDirector. |
| setLabelPos | (Self) | Sets the positions of the meter scale labels. |
| setMeterColors | (Self) | Sets the colors of the meter scale line, scale label and tick. |
| setLineWidth | (Self) | Sets the line widths of the scale line and the ticks on the meter. |
| setTickLength | (Self) | Set the lengths of the ticks. |
| addLabel | (Self) | Adds a label to a specific position on the meter scale. |
| getLabel | (Self) | Gets the label at the specified position on the meter scale. |
| getCoor | (Self) | Gets the geometric coordinates given the data value. |
| getTicks | (Self) | Returns the positions of all ticks as values on the meter scale. |
| setSize | BaseChart | Sets the size of the chart, exclusive of the drop shadow (if any). |
| getWidth | BaseChart | Gets the width of the chart. |
| getHeight | BaseChart | Gets the height of the chart. |
| getAbsOffsetX | BaseChart | Gets the x offset of the chart relative to the outermost MultiChart container. |
| getAbsOffsetY | BaseChart | Gets the y offset of the chart relative to the outermost MultiChart container. |
| setBackground | BaseChart | Sets the background color, border color and 3D border effect of the chart. |
| setRoundedFrame | BaseChart | Sets the border style of the chart to rounded corners. |
| setDropShadow | BaseChart | Adds a drop shadow to the chart. |
| setBorder | BaseChart | Sets the border color of the chart. |
| setWallpaper | BaseChart | Uses the image from the specified file as the wallpaper to repetitively fill the background of the chart. |
| setBgImage | BaseChart | Uses the image from the specified file as the background image of the chart. |
| setSearchPath | BaseChart | Sets the file system search path for loading image files. |
| setTransparentColor | BaseChart | Specifies a certain color to mean transparent when creating a raster image output, or to include alpha transparency channel in the output. |
| setAntiAlias | BaseChart | Controls whether anti-alias is used when drawing lines, shapes and text. |
| addTitle | BaseChart | Adds a title at the top center of the chart. |
| addTitle2 | BaseChart | Adds a title to the chart. |
| addLegend | BaseChart | Adds a legend box to the chart. |
| addLegend2 | BaseChart | Adds a legend box to the chart with grid layout. |
| getLegend | BaseChart | Gets the LegendBox object representing the legend box in the chart. |
| layoutLegend | BaseChart | Lays out and gets the LegendBox object representing the legend box in the chart. |
| getDrawArea | BaseChart | Retrieves the internal DrawArea object that is used to draw the chart. |
| addText | BaseChart | Adds a text box to the chart. |
| addTable | BaseChart | Adds a CDML table to the chart. |
| addLine | BaseChart | Adds a line to the chart. |
| addExtraField | BaseChart | Adds an array of text to be used as an extra field in various places. |
| addExtraField2 | BaseChart | Adds an array of numbers/dates to be used as an extra field in various places. |
| setColor | BaseChart | Change the color at the specified position in the palette. |
| setColors | BaseChart | Change the colors in the palette. |
| setColors2 | BaseChart | Change the colors in the palette, starting from the specified position in the palette. |
| getColor | BaseChart | Gets the color at the specified position of the palette. |
| adjustBrightness | BaseChart | Creates a color that is a darkened or brightened version of the given color. |
| halfColor | BaseChart | Creates a color that is half the intensity of the given color. |
| dashLineColor | BaseChart | Creates a dash line color. |
| patternColor | BaseChart | Creates a pattern color using an array of colors as the bitmap pattern. |
| patternColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a pattern color by loading the pattern from an image file. |
| linearGradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point linear gradient color. |
| linearGradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point linear gradient color. |
| radialGradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point radial gradient color. |
| radialGradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point radial gradient color. |
| gradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point linear gradient color. |
| gradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point linear gradient color. |
| setDefaultFonts | BaseChart | Sets the defaults for normal, bold, italic and bold-italic fonts. |
| setFontTable | BaseChart | Sets an entry in the font table to the specified font name. |
| formatValue | BaseChart | Formats a number/date using the ChartDirector formatting syntax as is in Parameter Substitution and Formatting. |
| setNumberFormat | BaseChart | Sets the characters used for thousand separator, decimal point, and negative sign. |
| setMonthNames | BaseChart | Sets the names of the months for date/time formatting purposes. |
| setWeekDayNames | BaseChart | Sets the names of the week days for date/time formatting purposes. |
| setAMPM | BaseChart | Sets the names to be used to denote morning and afternoon. |
| layout | BaseChart | Perform auto-scaling of the axes (if any) and compute the positions of the various objects in the chart. |
| enableVectorOutput | BaseChart | Enables true vector graphics output. |
| makeChart | BaseChart | Generates the chart image and save it into a file. |
| makeChart2 | BaseChart | Generates the chart as an image in memory. |
| makeChart3 | BaseChart | Generates the chart in internal format and return a DrawArea object to allow adding custom drawings on top of the chart. |
| makeSession | BaseChart | Generates the chart as an image and save it to a session variable. |
| initDynamicLayer | BaseChart | Initializes a dynamic layer for drawing text and shapes. |
| removeDynamicLayer | BaseChart | Removes the dynamic layer if any. |
| getHTMLImageMap | BaseChart | Generates an HTML image map for the chart. |
| getJsChartModel | BaseChart | Gets the Javascript Chart Model for passing to WebChartViewer.setChartModel for the purpose of supporting track cursors in a web application. |
| getChartMetrics | BaseChart | Gets the chart metrics for passing to WebChartViewer.setChartMetrics to support view ports for web applications. |