Combined Chart with Jfreechart

Question

I am using jfreechart-0.9.3 for drawing 4 charts on the same plot. I want to have two of them horizontally and two vertically next to eachother. When I tried to imitate the code of Demo combined charts by jfreechart (which only draws two charts next to eachother horizontally), I can't do that vertically. Because there is no
com.jrefinery.chart.HorizontalXYBarRenderer and com.jrefinery.chart.VerticalDateAxis classes. How can I make it vertically? Is there any other classes which could be usefull in jfreechart?
The code of two horizontal charts looks like this:
import com.jrefinery.chart.JFreeChart;
import com.jrefinery.chart.ChartPanel;
import com.jrefinery.chart.XYPlot;
import com.jrefinery.chart.XYItemRenderer;
import com.jrefinery.chart.VerticalXYBarRenderer;
import com.jrefinery.chart.HorizontalDateAxis;
import com.jrefinery.chart.VerticalNumberAxis;
import com.jrefinery.chart.CombinedXYPlot;
import com.jrefinery.chart.tooltips.TimeSeriesToolTipGenerator;
import com.jrefinery.data.BasicTimeSeries;
import com.jrefinery.data.TimeSeriesCollection;
import com.jrefinery.data.Day;
import com.jrefinery.data.XYDataset;
import com.jrefinery.data.IntervalXYDataset;
import com.jrefinery.date.SerialDate;
import com.jrefinery.ui.ApplicationFrame;
import com.jrefinery.ui.RefineryUtilities;
* A demonstration application showing a time series chart overlaid with a vertical XY bar chart.
public class CombinedXYPlotDemo extends ApplicationFrame {
* Constructs a new demonstration application.
public CombinedXYPlotDemo(String title) {
super(title);
JFreeChart chart = createCombinedChart();
ChartPanel panel = new ChartPanel(chart, true, true, true, false, true);
panel.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(500, 270));
this.setContentPane(panel);
* Creates a combined XYPlot chart.
private JFreeChart createCombinedChart() {
// create a parent plot...
CombinedXYPlot plot = new CombinedXYPlot(new VerticalNumberAxis("Value"),
CombinedXYPlot.HORIZONTAL);
// create subplot 1...
IntervalXYDataset data1 = this.createDataset1();
XYItemRenderer renderer1 = new VerticalXYBarRenderer(0.20);
renderer1.setToolTipGenerator(new TimeSeriesToolTipGenerator("d-MMM-yyyy", "0,000.0"));
XYPlot subplot1 = new XYPlot(data1, new HorizontalDateAxis("Date"), null, renderer1);
// create subplot 2...
XYDataset data2 = this.createDataset2();
XYPlot subplot2 = new XYPlot(data2, new HorizontalDateAxis("Date"), null);
XYItemRenderer renderer2 = subplot2.getRenderer();
renderer2.setToolTipGenerator(new TimeSeriesToolTipGenerator("d-MMM-yyyy", "0,000.0"));
// add the subplots...
plot.add(subplot1, 1);
plot.add(subplot2, 1);
// return a new chart containing the overlaid plot...
return new JFreeChart("Horizontal Combined Plot",
JFreeChart.DEFAULT_TITLE_FONT, plot, true);
* Creates a sample dataset.
private IntervalXYDataset createDataset1() {
// create dataset 1...
BasicTimeSeries series1 = new BasicTimeSeries("Series 1", Day.class);
series1.add(new Day(1, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 12353.3);
series1.add(new Day(2, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 13734.4);
series1.add(new Day(3, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14525.3);
series1.add(new Day(4, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 13984.3);
series1.add(new Day(5, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 12999.4);
series1.add(new Day(6, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14274.3);
series1.add(new Day(7, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 15943.5);
series1.add(new Day(8, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14845.3);
series1.add(new Day(9, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14645.4);
series1.add(new Day(10, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 16234.6);
series1.add(new Day(11, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 17232.3);
series1.add(new Day(12, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14232.2);
series1.add(new Day(13, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 13102.2);
series1.add(new Day(14, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 14230.2);
series1.add(new Day(15, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 11235.2);
return new TimeSeriesCollection(series1);
* Creates a sample dataset.
private XYDataset createDataset2() {
// create dataset 2...
BasicTimeSeries series2 = new BasicTimeSeries("Series 2", Day.class);
series2.add(new Day(3, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 16853.2);
series2.add(new Day(4, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 19642.3);
series2.add(new Day(5, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 18253.5);
series2.add(new Day(6, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 15352.3);
series2.add(new Day(7, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 13532.0);
series2.add(new Day(8, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 12635.3);
series2.add(new Day(9, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 13998.2);
series2.add(new Day(10, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 11943.2);
series2.add(new Day(11, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 16943.9);
series2.add(new Day(12, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 17843.2);
series2.add(new Day(13, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 16495.3);
series2.add(new Day(14, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 17943.6);
series2.add(new Day(15, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 18500.7);
series2.add(new Day(16, SerialDate.MARCH, 2002), 19595.9);
return new TimeSeriesCollection(series2);
* Starting point for the demonstration application.
public static void main(String[] args) {
CombinedXYPlotDemo demo = new CombinedXYPlotDemo("Combined XY Plot Demo");
demo.pack();
RefineryUtilities.centerFrameOnScreen(demo);
demo.setVisible(true);

Answer 1

I don't believe it supports putting them vertically and horizontally... only one way or the other. ...
Although, 0.9.3 is pretty old... what about a newer version... I haven't played with those charts in about 9 months, so my info is a little out of date. Problem is, after 0.9.6 (I think) they changed a lot of the packages around so a lot needs to change.