ChartDirector Ver 3.0 (Perl 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: perldemo/threedarea.pl] (The CGI version is available as "perldemo_cgi/threedarea.pl".)
#!/usr/bin/perl use perlchartdir; #The data for the area chart my $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 my $labels = ["0", "", "", "3", "", "", "6", "", "", "9", "", "", "12", "", "", "15", "", "", "18", "", "", "21", "", "", "24"]; #Create a XYChart object of size 300 x 300 pixels my $c = new 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")