Commons scales options

To change the global scale, Charba is providing the method getScale in the defaults.

With this method you can get all global configuration of Chart.JS for scale (common one, not related to chart type) and you have got all set and get methods to change or retrieve the global configuration items.

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().setStacked(true);

boolean stacked = Defaults.get().getScale().isStacked();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
alignToPixels	boolean	false	Align pixel values to device pixels.
animate	boolean	true	If true, animate scaling the chart from the center.
backgroundColor	String - IsColor	rgba(255,255,255,0) -	The background color of scale area.
beginAtZero	boolean	false	If true, scale will include 0 if it is not already included.
bounds	Bounds	Bounds.TICKS	Determines the scale bounds on time axis.
display	boolean - Display	Display.TRUE	If Display.TRUE, the axis is shown.
grace	int	0	Amount of pixels for added room in the scale range above and below data.
graceAsPercentage	double	0	Sets a value, between 0 and 1, as percentage, for added room in the scale range above and below data.
labels	Labels	empty Labels	The labels to display.
max	double - String - Date	See description	User defined maximum number for the scale, overrides maximum value from data. As value, you can set a: - double for linear, logarithmic and radial scales, with Double.MAX_VALUE as default; - Date for time and time series scales, with null as default; - String for category scales, with null as default.
min	double - String - Date	See description	User defined minimum number for the scale, overrides minimum value from data. As value, you can set a: - double for linear, logarithmic and radial scales, with Double.MIN_VALUE as default; - Date for time and time series scales, with null as default; - String for category scales, with null as default.
offset	boolean	false	If true, extra space is added to the both edges and the axis is scaled to fit in the chart area.
offsetAfterAutoskip	boolean	false	If true, bar chart offsets are computed with auto skipped ticks.
position	Position	Position.TOP	Position of the axis.
reverse	boolean	false	Reverses order of tick labels.
singleStacked	boolean	false	If you might want to stack positive and negative values together.
stack	String	Undefined.STRING	Sets the stack group. Axes at the same position with same stack are stacked.
stacked	boolean	false	If the axis are stacked.
stackWeight	double	1	Sets the weight of the scale in stack group. Used to determine the amount of allocated space for the scale within the group.
startAngle	double	0	Starting angle to draw arcs for the first item in a data set. In degrees, 0 is at top.
suggestedMax	double - String - Date	See description	Adjustment used when calculating the maximum data value. As value, you can set a: - double for linear, logarithmic and radial scales, with Double.MAX_VALUE as default; - Date for time and time series scales, with null as default; - String for category scales, with null as default.
suggestedMin	double - String - Date	See description	Adjustment used when calculating the minimum data value. As value, you can set a: - double for linear, logarithmic and radial scales, with Double.MIN_VALUE as default; - Date for time and time series scales, with null as default; - String for category scales, with null as default.
weight	double	0	The weight used to sort the axis. Higher weights are further away from the chart area.

The Bounds controls the scale boundary strategy (bypassed by min/max time options):

• Bounds.DATA: make sure data are fully visible, labels outside are removed.
• Bounds.TICKS: make sure ticks are fully visible, data outside are truncated.

Grid

The grid configuration defines options for the lines that are run perpendicular to the axis.

The grid configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getGrid().setCircular(true);

boolean circular = Defaults.get().getScale().getGrid().isCircular();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
circular	boolean	false	If true, grid lines are circular (on radar chart only).
color	String - String[] - IsColor - IsColor[]	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getBorderColorAsString()	The color of the grid lines. If specified as an array, the first color applies to the first grid line, the second to the second grid line and so on. See default colors.
display	boolean	true	If false, do not display grid lines for this axis.
drawOnChartArea	boolean	true	If true, draw lines on the chart area inside the axis lines. This is useful when there are multiple axes and you need to control which grid lines are drawn.
drawTicks	boolean	true	If true, draw lines beside the ticks in the axis area beside the chart.
lineWidth	int - int[]	1	Stroke width of grid lines.
offset	boolean	false	If true, grid lines will be shifted to be between labels. This is set to true in the bar chart by default.
tickBorderDash	int[]	See description	Length and spacing of the tick mark line. If not set, defaults to the grid line borderDash value.
tickBorderDashOffset	double - double[]	See description	Offset for the line dash of the tick mark. If unset, defaults to the grid line borderDashOffset value
tickColor	String - String[] - IsColor - IsColor[]	See description	Color of the tick line. If unset, defaults to the grid line color.
tickLength	int	10	Length in pixels that the grid lines will draw in the axis area.
tickWidth	int - int[]	See description	Width of the tick mark in pixels. If unset, defaults to the grid line lineWidth.
z	int	-1	z-index of the grid line layer. Values less than or equals to 0 are drawn under datasets, greater than 0 on top.

Border

The border defines options for the border that run perpendicular to the axis.

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getBorder().setDisplay(true);
Defaults.get().getScale().getBorder().setColor(HtmlColor.RED);

boolean display = Defaults.get().getScale().getBorder().isDisplay();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
display	boolean	true	If true, draw border at the edge between the axis and the chart area.
color	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getBorderColorAsString()	If set, used as the color of the border line.
dash	int[]	[]	Length and spacing of dashes on grid lines. See MDN.
dashOffset	double	0	Offset for line dashes. See MDN.
width	int	1	If set, used as the width of the border line.
z	int	0	z-index of the border layer. Values less than or equals to 0 are drawn under datasets, greater than 0 on top.

Ticks

The tick configuration defines options for the tick marks that are generated by the axis.

The ticks configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getTicks().setAutoSkip(false);

boolean autoSkip = Defaults.get().getScale().getTicks().isAutoSkip();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
align	TickAlign	TickAlign.CENTER	The tick alignment along the axis.
autoSkip	boolean	true	If true, automatically calculates how many labels that can be shown and hides labels accordingly. Labels will be rotated up to maxRotation before skipping any. Turn autoSkip off to show all labels no matter what.
autoSkipPadding	int	3	The padding between the ticks on the horizontal axis when autoSkip is enabled.
backdropColor	String - IsColor	rgba(255,255,255,0.75) -	Color of label backdrops.
backdropPadding	Padding	2 to all dimensions	The padding of label backdrop. See padding documentation for more details.
color	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getColorAsString()	Color of ticks. See default colors.
count	int	UnefinedValues.INTEGER	The number of ticks to generate. If specified, this overrides the automatic generation.
crossAlign	CrossAlign	CrossAlign.NEAR	The tick alignment perpendicular to the axis.
display	boolean	true	If true, the tick marks are shown.
font	Font	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getFont()	Font of ticks. See Font.
includeBounds	boolean	true	If true, the defined min and max values should be presented as ticks even if they are not "nice".
labelOffset	int	0	Distance in pixels to offset the label from the centre point of the tick (in the x-direction for the x-axis, and the y-direction for the y-axis). Note: This can cause labels at the edges to be cropped by the edge of the canvas.
maxRotation	int	50	The maximum rotation for tick labels when rotating to condense labels. Note: Rotation doesn't occur until necessary and only applicable to horizontal scales.
maxTicksLimit	int	11	Maximum number of ticks and gridlines to show.
minRotation	int	0	The minimum rotation for tick labels.
mirror	boolean	false	The flips tick labels around axis, displaying the labels inside the chart instead of outside. Note: Only applicable to vertical scales.
numberFormat	NumberFormatOptions		The number format options used by the default label formatter. See INTL number format documentation.
padding	int	0	The padding between the tick label and the axis.
precision	int	0	If defined and stepSize is not specified, the step size will be rounded to this many decimal places.
sampleSize	int	Undefined.INTEGER	The number of ticks to examine when deciding how many labels will fit. Setting a smaller value will be faster, but may be less accurate when there is large variability in label length.
showLabelBackdrop	boolean	true	If true, draw a background behind the tick labels
source	TickSource	TickSource.AUTO	How ticks are generated on axis time.
stepSize	double	Double.MIN_VALUE	User defined fixed step size for the scale.
textStrokeColor	String - IsColor	HtmlColor.TRANSPARENT	The color of the stroke around the text.
textStrokeWidth	int	0	Stroke width around the text.
z	int	0	z-index of tick layer. Useful when ticks are drawn on chart area. Values less than or equals to 0 are drawn under data sets, greater than 0 on top.

Major Tick

The major tick configuration enables for the major tick marks that are generated by the axis. A major tick will affect auto-skipping and major will be defined on ticks in the scriptable options context, by ScaleTickItem class and isMajor method.

The major ticks configuration is nested in the ticks configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getTicks().getMajor().setEnabled(true);

boolean enabled = Defaults.get().getScale().getTicks().getMajor().isEnabled();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
enabled	boolean	false	If true, major ticks marks are generated.

Title

The scale title configuration defines options for the title of the scale. Note that this only applies to cartesian axes.

The scale title configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getTitle().setColor(HtmlColor.RED);

IsColor color = Defaults.get().getScale().getTitle().getColor();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
align	ScaleTitleAlign	ScaleLabelAlign.CENTER	Alignment of the scale label.
color	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getColorAsString()	Color of scale label. See default colors.
display	boolean	false	If true, the scale label is shown.
font	Font	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getFont()	Font of scale label. See Font.
padding	Padding	4 to all dimensions	The padding of title. Only top and bottom are implemented. See padding documentation for more details.

AngleLines

The angle lines options are used to configure angled lines that are radiated from the center of the chart to the point labels.

The angle lines configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getAngleLines().setLineWidth(2);

int lineWidth = Defaults.get().getScale().getAngleLines().getLineWidth();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
borderDash	int[]	[]	Length and spacing of dashes on grid lines. See MDN.
borderDashOffset	double	0	Offset for line dashes. See MDN.
color	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getBorderColorAsString()	Color of angled lines. See default colors.
display	boolean	true	If true, angle lines are shown.
lineWidth	int	1	Width of angled lines.

PointLabels

The point labels options are used to configure the point labels that are shown on the perimeter of the scale.

The point labels configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getPointLabels().setColor(HtmlColor.RED);

IsColor color = Defaults.get().getScale().getPointLabels().getColor();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
backdropColor	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getBackgroundColorAsString()	Background color of the point label.
backdropPadding	Padding	2 to all dimensions	The padding of label backdrop. See padding documentation for more details.
borderRadius	int - BarBorderRadius	0	The border radius of the point label (in pixels).
display	boolean - Display	true	If true, point labels are shown. When Display.AUTO, the label is hidden if it overlaps with another label.
color	String - IsColor	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getColorAsString()	Color of point labels. See default colors.
font	Font	Defaults.get().getGlobal() .getFont()	Font of point labels. See Font.
padding	int	5	Padding between chart and point labels, in pixel.

Time

The time options are used to configure the time axis.

The time configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getTime().setUnit(TimeUnit.DAY);

TimeUnit unit = Defaults.get().getScale().getTime().getUnit();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
isoWeekday	IsoWeekDay	IsoWeekDay.SUNDAY	The first day of the week.
minUnit	TimeUnit	TimeUnit.MILLISECOND	The minimum display format to be used for a time unit.
parser	String	null	Interpreted as a custom format to be used to parse the date.
round	TimeUnit	null	If defined, dates will be rounded to the start of this unit.
stepSize	int	1	The number of units between grid lines.
tooltipFormat	String	null	Format string to use for the tooltip.
unit	TimeUnit	null	If defined, will force the unit to be a certain type.

For more details, have a look how to configure a cartesian time axis.

Display formats

The display formats are used to configure how different time units are formed in the strings for the axis tick marks.

The display formats configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
// changes the default format (of date adapter) of a time unit
Defaults.get().getScale().getTime().getDisplayFormats().setDisplayFormat(TimeUnit.HOUR, "hh:MM:00");

String displayFormat = Defaults.get().getScale().getTime().getDisplayFormats().getDisplayFormat(TimeUnit.HOUR);

Adapters

The adapters options are used to configure the adapter for external date library if that adapter needs or supports options. The options are leveraging in INTL framework

The adapters options configuration is nested in the scale configuration as following:

// --------------------------------------
// GLOBAL, for all scales (whatever type)
// --------------------------------------
Defaults.get().getScale().getAdapters().setLocale(CLocale.ITALY);

CLocale locale = Defaults.get().getScale().getAdapters().getLocale();

The following are the attributes that you can set:

Name	Type	Default	Description
locale	CLocale	null	Using locale specifying the language to use generating or interpreting strings.
zone	TimeZone	null	Implementation recognizes the time zone names of the IANA time zone database.
outputCalendar	Calendar	null	The calendar type to use.
numberingSystem	NumberingSystem	null	The numbering system to use.

For more details, have a look how to configure a Luxon date adapters and the locale documentation.