Speedometer with JFreeChart in Eclipse

mklinke — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:25:18 +0000

There is a great tutorial on vogella.de describing how to add a pie chart with JFreeChart to an Eclipse RCP application or plug-in. The ChartFactory that is used to create the pie chart does not include a method to create a speedometer (or dial) as shown in the sample section of JFreeChart. The following code fragment creates a view that displays a very basic speedometer using the org.jfree.chart.plot.MeterPlot class:

package com.martinklinke.eclipse.jfreechart.demo.views;
 
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.MeterPlot;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultValueDataset;
import org.jfree.experimental.chart.swt.ChartComposite;
 
/**
* @author martin
*
*/
public class MeterChartView extends ViewPart {
   public static final String ID = "com.martinklinke.eclipse.jfreechart.demo.views.MeterChartView";
 
   public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
      JFreeChart chart = createChart();
      final ChartComposite frame = new ChartComposite(parent, SWT.NONE, chart, true);
   }
 
   public void setFocus() {
   }
 
   /**
    * Creates the Chart based on a dataset
    */
   private JFreeChart createChart() {
      DefaultValueDataset data = new DefaultValueDataset(20.0);
      MeterPlot plot = new MeterPlot(data);
      JFreeChart chart = new JFreeChart("Meter Chart",
      JFreeChart.DEFAULT_TITLE_FONT, plot, false);
      plot.setNoDataMessage("No data available");
      return chart;
   }
}

The result should look like the following screenshot:

JFreeChart Speedometer in Eclipse View

Of course, the MeterPlot can be further customized by calling the plot.setXXX(…) methods. However, this exercise is left to the willing reader ;)

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Speedometer with JFreeChart in Eclipse