ChartDirector Ver 3.0 (Python Edition)

Percentage Area Chart




A percentage area chart is like a stacked area chart, except the areas are individually scaled so that they stacked up to 100.

Note that in this example, the legend box contains icons. This is achieved by including the icons in the data set name using CDML.

The key features demonstrated in this example are:

Source Code Listing

[File: pythondemo/percentarea.py] (The CGI version is available as "pythondemo_cgi/percentarea.py".)
#!/usr/bin/python from pychartdir import * #The data for the area chart data0 = [42, 49, 33, 38, 51, 46, 29, 41, 44, 57, 59, 52, 37, 34, 51, 56, 56, 60, 70, 76, 63, 67, 75, 64, 51] data1 = [50, 55, 47, 34, 42, 49, 63, 62, 73, 59, 56, 50, 64, 60, 67, 67, 58, 59, 73, 77, 84, 82, 80, 84, 98] data2 = [87, 89, 85, 66, 53, 39, 24, 21, 37, 56, 37, 23, 21, 33, 13, 17, 14, 23, 16, 25, 29, 30, 45, 47, 46] #The labels for the area chart labels = ["1996", "-", "-", "-", "1997", "-", "-", "-", "1998", "-", "-", "-", "1999", "-", "-", "-", "2000", "-", "-", "-", "2001", "-", "-", "-", "2002"] #Create a XYChart object of size 500 x 280 pixels, using 0xffffcc as background #color, with a black border, and 1 pixel 3D border effect c = XYChart(500, 280, 0xffffcc, 0, 1) #Set the plotarea at (50, 45) and of size 320 x 200 pixels with white #background. Enable horizontal and vertical grid lines using the grey (0xc0c0c0) #color. c.setPlotArea(50, 45, 320, 200, 0xffffff).setGridColor(0xc0c0c0, 0xc0c0c0) #Add a legend box at (370, 45) using vertical layout and 8 points Arial Bold #font. legendBox = c.addLegend(370, 45, 1, "arialbd.ttf", 8) #Set the legend box background and border to transparent legendBox.setBackground(Transparent, Transparent) #Set the legend box icon size to 16 x 32 pixels to match with custom icon size legendBox.setKeySize(16, 32) #Add a title to the chart using 14 points Times Bold Itatic font and white font #color, and 0x804020 as the background color c.addTitle("Quarterly Product Sales", "timesbi.ttf", 14, 0xffffff ).setBackground(0x804020) #Set the labels on the x axis c.xAxis().setLabels(labels) #Add a percentage area layer to the chart layer = c.addAreaLayer2(Percentage) #Add the three data sets to the area layer, using icons images with labels as #data set names layer.addDataSet(data0, 0x40ddaa77, "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=service.png*> Service<*/*>") layer.addDataSet(data1, 0x40aadd77, "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=software.png*> Software<*/*>") layer.addDataSet(data2, 0x40aa77dd, "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=computer.png*> Hardware<*/*>") #For a vertical stacked chart with positive data only, the last data set is #always on top. However, in a vertical legend box, the last data set is at the #bottom. This can be reversed by using the setLegend method. layer.setLegend(ReverseLegend) #output the chart c.makeChart("percentarea.png")