ChartDirector 6.0 (Perl Edition)

3D Line Chart




This example demonstrates setting the line to 3D by using Layer.set3D.

Source Code Listing

[Standalone Version] perldemo\threedline.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 line chart
my $data = [30, 28, 40, 55, 75, 68, 54, 60, 50, 62, 75, 65, 75, 91, 60, 55, 53, 35, 50, 66, 56, 48,
    52, 65, 62];

# The labels for the line chart
my $labels = ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15",
    "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24"];

# Create a XYChart object of size 300 x 280 pixels
my $c = new XYChart(300, 280);

# Set the plotarea at (45, 30) and of size 200 x 200 pixels
$c->setPlotArea(45, 30, 200, 200);

# Add a title to the chart using 12pt Arial Bold Italic font
$c->addTitle("Daily Server Utilization", "arialbi.ttf", 12);

# Add a title to the y axis
$c->yAxis()->setTitle("MBytes");

# Add a title to the x axis
$c->xAxis()->setTitle("June 12, 2001");

# Add a blue (0x6666ff) 3D line chart layer using the give data
$c->addLineLayer($data, 0x6666ff)->set3D();

# Set the labels on the x axis.
$c->xAxis()->setLabels($labels);

# Display 1 out of 3 labels on the x-axis.
$c->xAxis()->setLabelStep(3);

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

[CGI Version] perldemo_cgi\threedline.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 line chart
my $data = [30, 28, 40, 55, 75, 68, 54, 60, 50, 62, 75, 65, 75, 91, 60, 55, 53, 35, 50, 66, 56, 48,
    52, 65, 62];

# The labels for the line chart
my $labels = ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15",
    "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24"];

# Create a XYChart object of size 300 x 280 pixels
my $c = new XYChart(300, 280);

# Set the plotarea at (45, 30) and of size 200 x 200 pixels
$c->setPlotArea(45, 30, 200, 200);

# Add a title to the chart using 12pt Arial Bold Italic font
$c->addTitle("Daily Server Utilization", "arialbi.ttf", 12);

# Add a title to the y axis
$c->yAxis()->setTitle("MBytes");

# Add a title to the x axis
$c->xAxis()->setTitle("June 12, 2001");

# Add a blue (0x6666ff) 3D line chart layer using the give data
$c->addLineLayer($data, 0x6666ff)->set3D();

# Set the labels on the x axis.
$c->xAxis()->setLabels($labels);

# Display 1 out of 3 labels on the x-axis.
$c->xAxis()->setLabelStep(3);

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