ChartDirector Ver 5.0 (PHP Edition)

BaseMeter

The BaseMeter class represents a generic meter. It is the base class for AngularMeter and LinearMeter.

Method | Inherited | Description
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setScale | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale.
setScale2 | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale with the given text labels and tick positions.
setScale3 | (Self) | Sets the meter to use the given scale with the given numeric labels and tick positions.
addPointer | (Self) | Adds a pointer to the meter.
setLabelStyle | (Self) | Sets the font style used to for the meter labels.
setLabelFormat | (Self) | Sets the format of the labels computed by ChartDirector.
setLabelPos | (Self) | Sets the positions of the meter scale labels.
setMeterColors | (Self) | Sets the colors of the meter scale line, scale label and tick.
setLineWidth | (Self) | Sets the line widths of the scale line and the ticks on the meter.
setTickLength | (Self) | Set the lengths of the ticks.
addLabel | (Self) | Adds a label to a specific position on the meter scale.
getLabel | (Self) | Gets the label at the specified position on the meter scale.
getCoor | (Self) | Gets the geometric coordinates given the data value.
getTicks | (Self) | Returns the positions of all ticks as values on the meter scale.
setSize | BaseChart | Sets the size of the chart, exclusive of the drop shadow (if any).
getWidth | BaseChart | Gets the width of the chart.
getHeight | BaseChart | Gets the height of the chart.
setBackground | BaseChart | Sets the background color, border color and 3D border effect of the chart.
setRoundedFrame | BaseChart | Sets the border style of the chart to rounded corners.
setDropShadow | BaseChart | Adds a drop shadow to the chart.
setBorder | BaseChart | Sets the border color of the chart.
setWallpaper | BaseChart | Uses the image from the specified file as the wallpaper to repetitively fill the background of the chart.
setBgImage | BaseChart | Uses the image from the specified file as the background image of the chart.
setSearchPath | BaseChart | Sets the file system search path for loading image files.
setTransparentColor | BaseChart | Specifies a certain color to mean transparent when creating a raster image output, or to include alpha transparency channel in the output.
setAntiAlias | BaseChart | Controls whether anti-alias is used when drawing lines, shapes and text.
addTitle | BaseChart | Adds a title at the top center of the chart.
addTitle2 | BaseChart | Adds a title to the chart.
addLegend | BaseChart | Adds a legend box to the chart.
addLegend2 | BaseChart | Adds a legend box to the chart with grid layout.
getLegend | BaseChart | Gets the LegendBox object representing the legend box in the chart.
layoutLegend | BaseChart | Lays out and gets the LegendBox object representing the legend box in the chart.
getDrawArea | BaseChart | Retrieves the internal DrawArea object that is used to draw the chart.
addText | BaseChart | Adds a text box to the chart.
addTable | BaseChart | Adds a CDML table to the chart.
addLine | BaseChart | Adds a line to the chart.
addExtraField | BaseChart | Adds an array of text to be used as an extra field in various places.
addExtraField2 | BaseChart | Adds an array of numbers/dates to be used as an extra field in various places.
setColor | BaseChart | Change the color at the specified position in the palette.
setColors | BaseChart | Change the colors in the palette.
setColors2 | BaseChart | Change the colors in the palette, starting from the specified position in the palette.
getColor | BaseChart | Gets the color at the specified position of the palette.
adjustBrightness | BaseChart | Creates a color that is a darkened or brightened version of the given color.
halfColor | BaseChart | Creates a color that is half the intensity of the given color.
dashLineColor | BaseChart | Creates a dash line color.
patternColor | BaseChart | Creates a pattern color using an array of colors as the bitmap pattern.
patternColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a pattern color by loading the pattern from an image file.
linearGradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point linear gradient color.
linearGradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point linear gradient color.
radialGradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point radial gradient color.
radialGradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point radial gradient color.
gradientColor | BaseChart | Creates a two-point linear gradient color.
gradientColor2 | BaseChart | Creates a multi-point linear gradient color.
setDefaultFonts | BaseChart | Sets the defaults for normal, bold, italic and bold-italic fonts.
setFontTable | BaseChart | Sets an entry in the font table to the specified font name.
formatValue | BaseChart | Formats a number/date using the ChartDirector formatting syntax as is in Parameter Substitution and Formatting.
setNumberFormat | BaseChart | Sets the characters used for thousand separator, decimal point, and negative sign.
setMonthNames | BaseChart | Sets the names of the months for date/time formatting purposes.
setWeekDayNames | BaseChart | Sets the names of the week days for date/time formatting purposes.
setAMPM | BaseChart | Sets the names to be used to denote morning and afternoon.
layout | BaseChart | Perform auto-scaling of the axes (if any) and compute the positions of the various objects in the chart.
enableVectorOutput | BaseChart | Enables true vector graphics output.
makeChart | BaseChart | Generates the chart image and save it into a file.
makeChart2 | BaseChart | Generates the chart as an image in memory.
makeChart3 | BaseChart | Generates the chart in internal format and return a DrawArea object to allow adding custom drawings on top of the chart.
makeSession | BaseChart | Generates the chart as an image and save it to a session variable.
getHTMLImageMap | BaseChart | Generates an HTML image map for the chart.
getChartMetrics | BaseChart | Gets the chart metrics for passing to WebChartViewer.setChartMetrics to support view ports.

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