ChartDirector Ver 3.0 (Python Edition)

3D Area Chart




This example illustrates how a 3D area chart looks like. The 3D effect is configured using Layer.set3D.

Source Code Listing

[File: pythondemo/threedarea.py] (The CGI version is available as "pythondemo_cgi/threedarea.py".)
#!/usr/bin/python from pychartdir import * #The data for the area chart data = [30, 28, 40, 55, 75, 68, 54, 60, 50, 62, 75, 65, 75, 89, 60, 55, 53, 35, 50, 66, 56, 48, 52, 65, 62] #The labels for the area chart labels = ["0", "", "", "3", "", "", "6", "", "", "9", "", "", "12", "", "", "15", "", "", "18", "", "", "21", "", "", "24"] #Create a XYChart object of size 300 x 300 pixels c = XYChart(300, 300) #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 12 pts 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 green (0x00ff00) 3D area chart layer using the give data c.addAreaLayer(data, 0xff00).set3D() #Set the x axis labels using the given labels c.xAxis().setLabels(labels) #output the chart c.makeChart("threedarea.png")