Let's Make a Bar Chart

Sébastien Janaud - May 26, 2015 - updated june 2017 / Samples

Bar Charts

A bar chart or bar graph is a chart that presents Grouped data with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a column bar chart. A bar graph is a chart that uses either horizontal or vertical bars to show comparisons among categories. One axis of the chart shows the specific categories being compared, and the other axis represents a discrete value. Some bar graphs present bars clustered in groups of more than one (grouped bar graphs), and others show the bars divided into subparts to show cumulative effect (stacked bar graphs).

Resource : sample source code

Learn : javascript symbol plugin sources

Part : Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7



function createSymbolBarView(container, width, height) {

	var view = new JenScript.View({
		name : container,
		width : width,
		height : height,
		
		west : 80,
		south:60
	});
	
	var proj = new JenScript.LinearProjection({
		name : "proj",
		policy : {paint : 'ACTIVE'},
		minX : 0,
		maxX : 0,
		minY : -100,
		maxY : 1200
	});
	view.registerProjection(proj);

	var outline = new JenScript.DeviceOutlinePlugin({
		color : 'pink'
	});

	proj.registerPlugin(outline);
	
	
	var minor = {
			tickMarkerSize : 2,
			tickMarkerColor : 'yellow',
			tickMarkerStroke : 1
	};
	var median = {
		tickMarkerSize : 4,
		tickMarkerColor : '#d35400',
		tickMarkerStroke : 1.2,
		tickTextColor : '#d35400',
		tickTextFontSize : 10
	};
	var major = {
		tickMarkerSize : 8,
		tickMarkerColor : '#2980b9',
		tickMarkerStroke : 3,
		tickTextColor : '#2980b9',
		tickTextFontSize : 12,
		tickTextOffset : 16
	};
	
	var metrics = new JenScript.AxisMetricsModeled({
		axis : JenScript.Axis.AxisWest,
		minor:minor,
		median:median,
		major:major
	});
	proj.registerPlugin(metrics);
	
	var gridPlugin = new JenScript.GridModeledPlugin({
		gridOrientation : 'Horizontal',
		gridColor : 'white',
		gridWidth : 0.5,
		gridOpacity : 0.5
	});
	proj.registerPlugin(gridPlugin);
	
	//TOOL
	var tx1 = new JenScript.TranslatePlugin({
		mode : 'ty',
	});
	proj.registerPlugin(tx1);
	tx1.registerWidget(new JenScript.TranslateCompassWidget({
		ringFillColor : 'pink'
	}));
	tx1.select();
	
	var zoomwheel = new JenScript.ZoomWheelPlugin({
		mode : 'wheelY'
	});
	proj.registerPlugin(zoomwheel);
	
	var symbolPlugin = new JenScript.SymbolPlugin({
		nature : 'Vertical'
	});
	proj.registerPlugin(symbolPlugin);
	
	
	
	//symbol factory
	var createBar = function(val){
		var symbol = new JenScript.SymbolBar({
			base : 0,
			value: val,
			thickness : 32,
			direction : 'ascent',
			morpheStyle : 'Round',
			themeColor : '#c0392b',
			opacity : 1,
			barFill : new JenScript.SymbolBarFill1({}),
			barEffect  : new JenScript.SymbolBarEffect0({}),
		});
		return symbol;
	}
	
	var barLayer = new JenScript.SymbolBarLayer();
	symbolPlugin.addLayer(barLayer);
	
	var random = function getRandomArbitrary(min, max) {
	  return Math.random() * (max - min) + min;
	}
	
	barValue = function (){
		return random(200,800);
	}
	
	//lay out
	barLayer.addSymbol(JenScript.SymbolFiller.createGlue(),false); //glue stretch
	for (var i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
		var bar = createBar(barValue());
		barLayer.addSymbol(bar,false);
		
		if(i < 10)
		barLayer.addSymbol(JenScript.SymbolFiller.createStrut(20),false); //glue rigid except after last bar
	}
	barLayer.addSymbol(JenScript.SymbolFiller.createGlue(),false);//glue stretch
	
	//invoke repaint only one time
	symbolPlugin.repaintPlugin();
	
}