Common options

The configuration is used to change how the chart behaves. There are properties to control styling, fonts, the legend, etc.

These sections describe general configuration options that can apply elsewhere to the charts.

• Responsive defines responsive chart options that apply to all charts.
• Pixel ratio defines the physical display pixel ratio.
• Locale defines the language tag to use for internationalization.
• Font defines the graphical representation of text to use in the chart.

To change the chart options, Charba is providing the method getOptions in all charts classes.

Responsive

When it comes to change the chart size based on the window size, a major limitation is that the chart canvas render size can not be expressed with relative values, contrary to the display size. Furthermore, these sizes are independent from each other and thus the canvas render size does not adjust automatically based on the display size, making the rendering inaccurate.

The following examples do not work without setting maintainAspectRatio to false, because, setting to false, the chart will maintain the provided dimensions:

// invalid values, the canvas of chart doesn't resize
chart.setWidth("80vh");
chart.setHeight("80vh");
// in order to use the passed dimensions
chart.getOptions().setMaintainAspectRatio(false);

Leveraging on Chart.JS capabilities, Charba provides options to enable responsiveness and control the resize behavior of charts by detecting when the canvas display size changes and update the render size accordingly.

To change and apply own properties, you can invoke the set methods, both at chart and global level, as following:

// chart
chart.getOptions().setResponsive(true);
boolean responsive = chart.getOptions().isResponsive();
// global
Defaults.get().getGlobal().setResponsive(true);
boolean globalResponsive = Defaults.get().getGlobal().isResponsive();

The default values are set in global defaults options, see default global chart options.

Table with options:

Name	Type	Description
aspectRatio	double	Canvas aspect ratio (i.e. width / height, a value of 1 representing a square canvas). Note: this option is ignored if the height is explicitly defined either as attribute or via the style.
maintainAspectRatio	boolean	Maintain the original canvas aspect ratio (width / height) when resizing.
responsive	boolean	Resizes the chart canvas when its container does.
resizeDelay	int	Delay the resize update by give amount of milliseconds. This can ease the resize process by debouncing update of the elements.

Printing

CSS media queries allow changing styles when printing a page. The CSS applied from these media queries may cause charts to need to resize. However, the resize won't happen automatically. To support resizing charts when printing, one needs to invoke the following statement after the Charba setup:

JsWindowHelper.enableResizeOnBeforePrint();

Device pixel ratio

By default the chart's canvas will use a 1:1 pixel ratio, unless the physical display has a higher pixel ratio (e.g. Retina displays).

For applications where a chart will be converted to a bitmap, or printed to a higher DPI medium it can be desirable to render the chart at a higher resolution than the default.

Setting devicePixelRatio property to a value other than 1 will force the canvas size to be scaled by that amount, relative to the container size. There should be no visible difference on screen; the difference will only be visible when the image is zoomed or printed.

To change and apply own property value, you can invoke the set methods, both at chart and global level, as following:

// chart
chart.getOptions().setDevicePixelRatio(2D);
double devicePixelRatio = chart.getOptions().getDevicePixelRatio();
// global
Defaults.get().getGlobal().setDevicePixelRatio(2D);
double globalDevicePixelRatio = Defaults.get().getGlobal().getDevicePixelRatio();

The default value is set in global defaults options, see default global chart options.

Table with options:

Name	Type	Description
devicePixelRatio	double	Override the window's default devicePixelRatio.

Locale

For applications where the numbers of ticks on scales must be formatted accordingly with a language sensitive number formatting, you can enable this kind of formatting by setting the locale option.

The locale is a CLocale object which represents a string that is a Unicode BCP 47 locale identifier.

A Unicode BCP 47 locale identifier consists of

1. a language code,
2. (optionally) a script code,
3. (optionally) a region (or country) code,
4. (optionally) one or more variant codes, and
5. (optionally) one or more extension sequences,

with all present components separated by hyphens.

// chart
chart.getOptions().setLocale(CLocale.US);
CLocale locale = chart.getOptions().getLocale();
// global
Defaults.get().getGlobal().setLocale(CLocale.US);
CLocale globalLocale = Defaults.get().getGlobal().getLocale();

The default value is set in global defaults options, see default global chart options.

Table with options:

Name	Type	Description
locale	CLocale	A string with a BCP 47 language tag. See INTL locale.

Colors

There are chart settings that can change colors on the chart, related to their use case. The colors settings will be consume from the other elements of chart only if they don't have any other specific default, related to the element itself. The default values are set in default global options.

To change and apply own property value, you can invoke the set methods, as following:

// chart
chart.getOptions().setColor(HtmlColor.RED);
HtmlColor color = chart.getOptions().getColor();
// global
Defaults.get().getGlobal().setColor(HtmlColor.RED);
HtmlColor color = Defaults.get().getGlobal().getColor();

Table with options:

Name	Type	Description
autoColors	boolean	true if the chart will cycle through a palette of seven Chart.JS brand colors. See color section.
autoColorsForceOverride	boolean	true if you want to force the auto colors to always color your datasets, for example when using dynamic datasets at runtime. See color section.
backgroundColor	String - IsColor	The default background color to use in the chart.
borderColor	String - IsColor	The default border color to use in the chart.
color	String - IsColor	The default font color to use in the chart.

Font

There are chart settings that can change all fonts on the chart. The font settings will be consume from the other elements of chart only if they don't have any other specific default, related to the element itself. The default values are set in global defaults options, see default global font options.

To change and apply own property value, you can invoke the set methods, as following:

// sets font size at chart level
chart.getOptions().getFont().setSize(16);
// gets the size
int size = chart.getOptions().getFont().getSize();

Name	Type	Description
family	String	Font family for all text.
size	int	Font size (in px) for text.
style	FontStyle	Font style
weight	Weight	Default font weight (boldness). See MDN.
lineHeight	double - String	Height of an individual line of text. See MDN.

Padding

Many elements use the padding to apply space around the element itself.

The Padding provides all set and get methods to manage the configuration, as following:

// creates a radial axis 
RadialAxis axis = new RadialAxis(chart);
// enables point labels
axis.getPointLabels().setDisplay(true);
// set the same padding size to all directions 
axis.getPointLabels().getBackdropPadding().setTop(5);

int top = axis.getPointLabels().getBackdropPadding().getTop();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Description
bottom	int	The padding bottom in pixel.
left	int	The padding left in pixel.
right	int	The padding right in pixel.
top	int	The padding top in pixel.

The Padding provides the methods to:

• set the same value to all dimensions, by set(int).
• set the same value to X dimensions (left and right), by setX(int).
• set the same value to Y dimensions (top and bottom), by setY(int).