5.3 Containers

Chart container isolates the physical medium for chart output. Chart container is required to create an interactive chart. By providing different containers, chart can be rendered in AWT, Swing or a custom component hierarchy.

No chart container is required for static charts, such as charts, generated by servlets.

The main types of containers:

Class Description
JChartPanel This container is used for Swing applications
ChartCanvas This container is used for AWT applications

Table 5.3.1 Containers

Using JChartPanel: 

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//... chart creation code...
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    LabeledChart topChart = new LabeledChart(chart);
// .. topChart settings
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    JChartPanel  m_chartPanel = new JChartPanel(topChart);
// .. m_chartPanel settings
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// adding m_chartPanel to JFrame
add(m_chartPanel);

Using ChartCanvas: 

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//... chart creation code...
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    LabeledChart topChart = new LabeledChart(chart);
// .. topChart settings
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    ChartCanvas  panel = new ChartCanvas(topChart);
// .. panel settings
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// adding panel to Frame
add(panel);