Document on Seam iText charting ------------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-2275 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2275 Project: JBoss Seam Issue Type: Patch Affects Versions: 2.0.0.GA Environment: JBoss 4.2.1.GA Reporter: Joshua Partogi Fix For: 2.0.1.GA Point 16.2 1. Write in doc to use the charting support, we need to add the jfreechart.jar and jcommon-*.jar in the project classpath. We can also add this is our build.xml 2. The key attribute is needed upon p:data component usage otherwise it will throw this exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null 'key' argument. at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues.setValue(DefaultKeyedValues.java:239) at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues2D.setValue(DefaultKeyedValues2D.java:337) at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues2D.addValue(DefaultKeyedValues2D.java:303). In examples, it is used in (the ones below are the fixed value): Barchart, Linechart, Series PieChart 1. Attributes: title — The chart title text. legend — A boolean value indicating whether or not the chart should include a legend. Default value is true is3D - A boolean value indicating that the chart should be rendered in 3D instead of 2D. labelLinkMargin - The link margin labelLinkPaint - The paint used for the label linking lines. labelLinkStroke - The stroke used for the label linking lines. labelLinksVisible - A flag that controls whether or not the label links are drawn. labelOutlinePaint - The paint used to draw the outline of the section labels labelOutlineStroke - The stroke used to draw the outline of the section labels labelShadowPaint - The paint used to draw the shadow for the section labels labelPaint - The color used to draw the section labels labelGap - The gap between the labels and the plot as a percentage of the plot width. labelBackgroundPaint - The color used to draw the background of the section labels. If this is null, the background is not filled. startAngle - The starting angle circular - A boolean value indicating whether whether to draw an ellipse or a perfect circle. direction - The direction for the pie segments. If value is not set "anticlockwise" then by default it is clockwise. sectionOutlinePaint - The outline paint for ALL sections (overrides list). sectionOutlineStroke - The outline stroke for ALL sections (overrides list). sectionOutlinesVisible - A flag that controls whether or not an outline is drawn for each section in the plot. baseSectionOutlinePaint - The base section outline paint baseSectionPaint - The base section paint baseSectionOutlineStroke - The base section outline stroke 2. Usage: <p:document xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"> <p:piechart title="Pie Chart" circular="false" direction="anticlockwise" startAngle="30" labelGap="0.1" labelLinkPaint="red"> <p:series key="Prices"> <p:data key="2003" columnKey="2003" value="7.36" /> <p:data key="2004" columnKey="2004" value="11.50" /> <p:data key="2005" columnKey="2005" value="34.625" /> <p:data key="2006" columnKey="2006" value="76.30" /> <p:data key="2007" columnKey="2007" value="85.05" /> </p:series> </p:piechart> </p:document> -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira