ChartDirector Ver 3.0 (Perl Edition)

Line Comparison




ChartDirector supports filling the area between two lines. The lines can be from a LineLayer, SplineLayer, StepLineLayer, TrendLayer or from an axis Mark. Two colors can be used for filling, depending on which line is on top.

The effects in this example is achieved using the following methods:

Source Code Listing

[File: perldemo/linecompare.pl] (The CGI version is available as "perldemo_cgi/linecompare.pl".)
#!/usr/bin/perl use perlchartdir; #The data for the upper and lower bounding lines my $upperY = [60, 60, 100, 100, 60, 60]; my $lowerY = [40, 40, 80, 80, 40, 40]; my $zoneX = [0, 2.5, 3.5, 5.5, 6.5, 10]; #The data for the spline curve my $curveY = [50, 44, 54, 48, 58, 50, 90, 85, 104, 82, 96, 90, 74, 52, 35, 58, 46, 54, 48, 52, 50]; my $curveX = [0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10]; #Create a XYChart object of size 600 x 300 pixels, with a light grey (0xc0c0c0) #background, a black border, and 1 pixel 3D border effect. my $c = new XYChart(600, 300, 0xc0c0c0, 0, 1); #Set the plotarea at (55, 50) and of size 520 x 205 pixels, with white #background. Turn on both horizontal and vertical grid lines with light grey #color (0xc0c0c0) $c->setPlotArea(55, 50, 520, 205, 0xffffff, -1, -1, 0xc0c0c0, 0xc0c0c0); #Add a legend box at (55, 25) (top of the chart) with horizontal layout. Use 8 #pts Arial font. Set the background and border color to Transparent. $c->addLegend(55, 25, 0, "", 8)->setBackground($perlchartdir::Transparent); #Add a title box to the chart using 13 pts Arial Bold Italic font. The title is #in CDML and includes embedded images for highlight. The text is white #(0xffffff) on a black background, with a 1 pixel 3D border. $c->addTitle( "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=star.png*><*img=star.png*> Performance ". "Enhancer <*img=star.png*><*img=star.png*><*/*>", "arialbi.ttf", 13, 0xffffff)->setBackground(0x0, -1, 1); #Add a title to the y axis $c->yAxis()->setTitle("Temperature"); #Add a title to the x axis using CMDL $c->xAxis()->setTitle( "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=clock.png*> Elapsed Time (hour)<*/*>"); #Set the axes width to 2 pixels $c->xAxis()->setWidth(2); $c->yAxis()->setWidth(2); #Add a purple (0x800080) spline layer to the chart with a line width of 2 pixels my $splineLayer = $c->addSplineLayer($curveY, 0x800080, "Molecular Temperature") ; $splineLayer->setXData($curveX); $splineLayer->setLineWidth(2); #Add a line layer to the chart with two dark green (0x338033) data sets, and a #line width of 2 pixels my $lineLayer = $c->addLineLayer2(); $lineLayer->addDataSet($upperY, 0x338033, "Target Zone"); $lineLayer->addDataSet($lowerY, 0x338033); $lineLayer->setXData($zoneX); $lineLayer->setLineWidth(2); #Color the zone between the upper zone line and lower zone line as #semi-transparent light green (0x8099ff99) $c->addInterLineLayer($lineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(1), 0x8099ff99, 0x8099ff99); #If the spline line gets above the upper zone line, color to area between the #lines red (0xff0000) $c->addInterLineLayer($splineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(0), 0xff0000, $perlchartdir::Transparent); #If the spline line gets below the lower zone line, color to area between the #lines blue (0xff) $c->addInterLineLayer($splineLayer->getLine(0), $lineLayer->getLine(1), $perlchartdir::Transparent, 0xff); #Add a custom CDML text at the bottom right of the plot area as the logo $c->addText(575, 255, "<*block,valign=absmiddle*><*img=small_molecule.png*> <*block*>". "<*font=timesbi.ttf,size=10,color=804040*>Molecular\nEngineering<*/*>" )->setAlignment($perlchartdir::BottomRight); #output the chart $c->makeChart("linecompare.png")