Contents

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Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Organization

Related Documents

Conventions

1 Introducing Oracle Chart Builder

1.1 What Is Chart Builder?

1.2 Who Should Use Chart Builder?

1.3 Types of Charts

1.3.1 Axis Charts

1.3.2 Pie Charts

1.3.3 Interactive Charts

1.3.4 Dynamic Charts

2 Building Basic Static Charts

2.1 Chart Builder Class Library

2.2 Building Basic Axis Charts

2.2.1 Building a Line Chart

2.2.2 Building an Area Chart

2.2.3 Building a Bar Chart

2.2.4 Building a Stock Chart

2.2.5 Building a Horizontal Bar Chart

2.3 Building Basic Pie Charts

2.4 Loading Data into Charts

2.4.1 Loading Data from a Text File

2.4.2 Loading Data from an Input Stream

2.4.3 Loading Data from a Database

2.5 Generating Image Files of Charts

2.5.1 Improving Image Quality

3 Customizing Charts

3.1 Using Descriptors to Customize Charts

3.2 Adding and Modifying Titles, Subtitles, and Footnotes

3.3 Modifying the Color of Chart Elements

3.4 Adding Special Effects

3.4.1 Adding Special Effects to Bar Charts

3.4.2 Adding Special Effects to Pie Charts

3.5 Customizing the X-Axis

3.5.1 Replacing Label Names

3.5.2 Disabling Labels for the X-Axis

3.5.3 Specifying Minimum and Maximum Labeling Dimensions

3.5.4 Setting the Minimum Number of Lines for Labels

3.6 Customizing the Y-Axis

3.6.1 Setting the Extents and Increments

3.6.2 Disabling Labels for the Y-Axis

3.6.3 Formatting the Numerical Labels

3.7 Adding Annotations and Point Labels

4 Building More Complex Static Charts

4.1 Building Multiple-Series Charts

4.1.1 Building Multiple-Series Line and Area Charts

4.1.2 Building Clustered and Stacked Bar Charts

4.1.3 Building Charts with Mixed Graph Types

4.1.4 Building Dual-Axis Charts

4.1.5 Building Mixed-Frequency Charts

4.2 Customizing Legends in Axis Charts

4.3 Customizing Legends and Labels in Pie Charts

4.3.1 Customizing Legends in Pie Charts

4.3.2 Customizing Labels in Pie Charts

4.4 Building Charts with More Timestamps than Data Values

4.4.1 Building Charts with Missing Data at the End of a Chart

4.4.2 Building Charts with Missing Data at the Beginning of a Chart

4.4.3 Building a Sparse Series Chart

4.5 Building Subcharts

5 Building Interactive and Dynamic Charts

5.1 Building Interactive Charts

5.1.1 Building Interactive Charts Using Image Maps

5.1.2 Building Interactive Charts That Use Events

5.1.2.1 Building Interactive Axis Charts

5.1.2.2 Building Interactive Pie Charts

5.2 Building Dynamic Charts

5.2.1 Adding Data Incrementally

5.2.1.1 Incrementally Adding Y-Axis Values

5.2.1.2 Incrementally Adding Timestamps and Y-Axis Values

5.2.2 Adding New Series Dynamically

5.2.3 Deleting or Replacing Series Dynamically

A Class Hierarchy

A.1 Hierarchy

B Error Messages

B.1 Message Formats

B.2 Error Messages

Index