ChartDirector 6.0 (Perl Edition)

Simple Pie Chart




This example demonstrates the basic steps in creating pie charts.

Source Code Listing

[Standalone Version] perldemo\simplepie.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

# In the sample code, the ChartDirector for Perl module is assumed to be in "../lib"
use File::Basename;
use lib (dirname($0)."/../lib") =~ /(.*)/;

use perlchartdir;

# The data for the pie chart
my $data = [25, 18, 15, 12, 8, 30, 35];

# The labels for the pie chart
my $labels = ["Labor", "Licenses", "Taxes", "Legal", "Insurance", "Facilities", "Production"];

# Create a PieChart object of size 360 x 300 pixels
my $c = new PieChart(360, 300);

# Set the center of the pie at (180, 140) and the radius to 100 pixels
$c->setPieSize(180, 140, 100);

# Set the pie data and the pie labels
$c->setData($data, $labels);

# Output the chart
$c->makeChart("simplepie.png")

[CGI Version] perldemo_cgi\simplepie.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

# In the sample code, the ChartDirector for Perl module is assumed to be in "../lib"
use File::Basename;
use lib (dirname($0)."/../lib") =~ /(.*)/;

use perlchartdir;

# The data for the pie chart
my $data = [25, 18, 15, 12, 8, 30, 35];

# The labels for the pie chart
my $labels = ["Labor", "Licenses", "Taxes", "Legal", "Insurance", "Facilities", "Production"];

# Create a PieChart object of size 360 x 300 pixels
my $c = new PieChart(360, 300);

# Set the center of the pie at (180, 140) and the radius to 100 pixels
$c->setPieSize(180, 140, 100);

# Set the pie data and the pie labels
$c->setData($data, $labels);

# Output the chart
binmode(STDOUT);
print "Content-type: image/png\n\n";
print $c->makeChart2($perlchartdir::PNG);