Style – chart style

Style – chart style

Accepts a wide range of keywords which set global options for the current chart. These can subsequently be reset by prefixing the option with ‘no’ as in ‘nolines’ to plot with markers only.

ch.Set 'boxed,forcezero'
ch.Set ('style' 'boxed,nolines')('xtick' 5 4)( ... etc)

The keyword ‘style’ can be omitted in this case, but only if you set the style option on its own, as in the first example.

Options in detail

lines:nolines Draw lines
marker:nomarker Add markers
fill:nofill Fill area within each line
kite:nokite Draw trace charts as kite diagrams
halo:nohalo Add halo to markers
surface:nosurface Shade below the lines
arrow:noarrow Add arrowheads to risers
cells:nocells Record xy co-ordinates as cells (see Cellsize)
grouped:stacked:floating:horiz Barchart options
shaded:floating Stepchart options
axes:noaxes Draw Axis lines (both)
framed:noframed Draw axes all around chart area
rows:columns Data series presented across or down
spider:nospider Use keys as spider tags in piecharts
XYplot:timeseries 1st column gives x-values
relative:absolute Accumulate data values
index:noindex Re-base values to run from 100
forcezero:noforce Origin must go through zero
risers:norisers Draw risers on step chart
tile:notile Tile response surfaces
errorbars:noerrorbars Draw MinMax as error-bar plot
arrows:noarrows Add arrowheads to MinMax, Dial and line plots
wedge:annular Warning zones on dial plots drawn as complete sectors
values:novalues Add values to bars or beside markers
trend:notrend Draw a simple trendline through a scatter plot
model:nomodel Fit a straight line or polynomial through the data
growth:nogrowth Fit an exponential growth (or decay) curve
annotate:noannotate Add a note to the line giving the fit coefficients

Options shown in bold are the normal default settings. You can over-ride any of these using ch.SetDefault at initialisation time. If you set an inappropriate style (for example you choose ‘tile’ for a barchart) it will be accepted but ignored.

lines:nolines	Draw lines
marker:nomarker	Add markers
fill:nofill	Fill area within each line
kite:nokite	Draw trace charts as kite diagrams
halo:nohalo	Add halo to markers
surface:nosurface	Shade below the lines
arrow:noarrow	Add arrowheads to risers
cells:nocells	Record xy co-ordinates as cells (see Cellsize)
grouped:stacked:floating:horiz	Barchart options
shaded:floating	Stepchart options
axes:noaxes	Draw Axis lines (both)
framed:noframed	Draw axes all around chart area
rows:columns	Data series presented across or down
spider:nospider	Use keys as spider tags in piecharts
XYplot:timeseries	1st column gives x-values
relative:absolute	Accumulate data values
index:noindex	Re-base values to run from 100
forcezero:noforce	Origin must go through zero
risers:norisers	Draw risers on step chart
tile:notile	Tile response surfaces
errorbars:noerrorbars	Draw MinMax as error-bar plot
arrows:noarrows	Add arrowheads to MinMax, Dial and line plots
wedge:annular	Warning zones on dial plots drawn as complete sectors
values:novalues	Add values to bars or beside markers
trend:notrend	Draw a simple trendline through a scatter plot
model:nomodel	Fit a straight line or polynomial through the data
growth:nogrowth	Fit an exponential growth (or decay) curve
annotate:noannotate	Add a note to the line giving the fit coefficients