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2D Stacked Bars Chart

Author: Antony Corsten Reference Number: AA-00325 Views: 4733 Last Updated: 07/24/2009 09:04 AM

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Sample XML for 2D Stacked Bars Chart:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<graph>

<general_settings bg_color="CCCCCC" type_graph="v" />

<header text="Test header" font="Verdana" color="000000" size="18" />

<subheader text="Test Subheader" font="Verdana" color="000000" size="15" />

<legend font="Verdana" color="000000" font_size="11" />

<legend_popup font="Verdana" bgcolor="FFFFE3" font_size="10" />

<Xheaders rotate="90" color="000000" size="10" title="Test Xheaders" title_color="000000" />

<Yheaders color="000000" size="10" title="Test Yheaders" title_rotate="90" title_color="000000" />

<grid grid_width="550" grid_height="250" grid_color="000000" grid_alpha="40" grid_thickness="1" bg_color="ffffff" bg_alpha="100" alternate_bg_color="00FFFF" border_color="000000" border_thickness="2" />

<bars view_value="1" width="55" alpha="70" view_double_bar="1" color_double_bar="b7b7b7" pieces_grow_bar="40" />

<data>

<categorie name="N. America">

<subcategorie name="Rice" value="30" color="FDC12E" />

<subcategorie name="Wheat" value="67" color="56B9F9" />

<subcategorie name="Grain" value="97" color="C9198D" />

</categorie>

<categorie name="Europe">

<subcategorie name="Rice" value="-37.9" color="FDC12E" />

<subcategorie name="Wheat" value="15" color="56B9F9" />

<subcategorie name="Grain" value="23" color="C9198D" />

<subcategorie name="Black" value="30" color="000000" />

</categorie>

<categorie name="Grain">

<subcategorie name="Rice" value="-8.8" color="FDC12E" />

<subcategorie name="Wheat" value="-50" color="56B9F9" />

<subcategorie name="Grain" value="-51" color="C9198D" />

</categorie>

</data>

</graph>

Description:

Header tag of the XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<graph>...</graph>

You should place a valid XML header at the beginning of every XML file. If you use symbols different from Latin-1 encoding, please set the right encoding for you. In order to get more universality you can use Unicode:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<graph>

Setting up the appearance of the Bar Chart:

<general_settings bg_color="CCCCCC" type_graph="v" />

Data:

Attribute	Description
bg_color	'CCCCCC' - Bar Chart background general color
type_graph	"v" - Chart bars type of arrangement: "v" - vertical "h" - horizontal

Setting up the top row of the Bar Chart header (the uppermost text):

Data:

Attribute	Description
text	'Test header' - Header content
font	'Verdana' - Header font
color	'000000' - Header color
size	'18' - Header font size

Setting up the bottom row of the Bar Chart header (the text second from above):

Data:

Attribute	Description
text	'Test subheader' - Header content
font	'Verdana' - Header font
color	'000000' - Header color
size	'15' - Header font size

Setting up the legend (Conformity of bar color and bar name):

Data:

Attribute	Description
font	'Verdana' - caption font
color	'000000' - caption color
font_size	'11' - caption font size

Setting up the view of the popup hint on mouse on the sectors of Bar Chart:

<legend_popup font="Verdana" bgcolor="FFFFE3" font_size="10" />

Data:

Attribute	Description
font	'Verdana' - caption font
bgcolor	'FFFFE3' - popup background color
font_size	'10' - caption font size

Setting up the view of calibration text on axis X of the graph:

Data:

Attribute	Description
rotate	'90' - Text rotation angle (there are two values possible, 0 and 90)
color	'000000'- text color
size	'10'- font size
title	'Test Xheaders' - caption content for X axis
title_color	'000000' - caption text color

Setting up the view of graduation text on axis Y of the graph:

Data:

Attribute	Description
color	'000000'- text color
size	'10'- font size
title	'Test Yheaders' - caption content for Y axis
title_rotate	'90' - Caption rotation angle (there are two values possible, 0 and 90)
title_color	'000000' - caption text color

Setting up the view of the Bar Chart grid:

Data:

Attribute	Description
grid_width, grid_height	grid_width='550' grid_height='250' - grid height and width(in pixels)
grid_color	'000000' - grid lines color
grid_alpha	'40' - grid lines alpha-transparency (from 0 to100 )
grid_thickness	'1' - grid lines thickness
bg_color	'ffffff' - grid field background color
bg_alpha	'100' - grid field background alpha-transparency
alternate_bg_color	'00FFFF' - grid vertical rectangular alternate fields color
border_color	'000000' - grid border color
border_thickness	'2' - grid border thickness

Setting up the view of the bars:

Data:

Attribute	Description
view_value	'1' Showing the value near the left side of the bar: '1' - to show '0' - not to show
alpha	'70' - bar transparency
view_double_bar	"1"- Showing the double bars: '1' - to show '0' - not to show
color_double_bar	"b7b7b7" - Bar copy color
pieces_grow_bar	'40' - Number of shares (pieces) into which maximum bar length will be divided when calculating the step. One share is equal to an incremental step when drawing bars. A bigger value of pieces_grow_bar means a smaller speed of bars. If pieces_grow_bar=1, bars will reach their real length instantly.

Setting up the data:

Data:

Attribute	Description
categorie name	"N. America" - data on Y axis
subcategorie name	"Rice" - data series name that is displayed at the legend and at the popup hint
value	"30" - data on Y axis
color	"FDC12E" - chart bar color

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