I was using this code placed here to generate bar-charts for my datasets. However, the colours were all the same (red in the code), so I decided to generate a colour ramp for this. I wrote the following code:
Color[] getColorRamp(int numColours)
{
Color[] colours = new Color[numColours];
int red_1 = 255;
int green_1 = 0;
int blue_1 = 0;
int red_2 = 0;
int green_2 = 0;
int blue_2 = 255;
int count = 0;
for (float t=0.0f;t<1.0f;t+=1.0/(float)numColours) {
colours[count] = new Color((int)(t*red_2 + (1-t)*red_1),
(int)(t*green_2 + (1-t)*green_1),
(int)(t*blue_2 + (1-t)*blue_1),34);
//System.out.print((int)(t*red_2 + (1-t)*red_1) +",");
//System.out.print((int)(t*green_2 + (1-t)*green_1) +",");
//System.out.println((int)(t*blue_2 + (1-t)*blue_1));
}
return colours;
}
It is here, where the problem starts. Only the first colour (pretty light blue) get rendered properly. Other colours are rendered as black! You can see that I have put System.out.println
to verify the colours generated (commented in the code posted here). I saw that colours were generated as perfect RGB combinations.
The modified barchart function is posted here:
void drawBarChart(Graphics g, double[] values, String[] names, String title)
{
if (values == null || values.length == 0)
return;
double minValue = 0;
double maxValue = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
if (minValue > values[i])
minValue = values[i];
if (maxValue < values[i])
maxValue = values[i];
}
//Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)gg;
Dimension d = getSize();
int clientWidth = d.width;
int clientHeight = d.height;
int barWidth = clientWidth / values.length;
Font titleFont = new Font("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 20);
FontMetrics titleFontMetrics = g.getFontMetrics(titleFont);
Font labelFont = new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 10);
FontMetrics labelFontMetrics = g.getFontMetrics(labelFont);
int titleWidth = titleFontMetrics.stringWidth(title);
int y = titleFontMetrics.getAscent();
int x = (clientWidth - titleWidth) / 2;
g.setFont(titleFont);
g.drawString(title, x, y);
int top = titleFontMetrics.getHeight();
int bottom = labelFontMetrics.getHeight();
if (maxValue == minValue)
return;
double scale = (clientHeight - top - bottom) / (maxValue - minValue);
y = clientHeight - labelFontMetrics.getDescent();
g.setFont(labelFont);
Color[] colours = getColorRamp(values.length);
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
int valueX = i * barWidth + 1;
int valueY = top;
int height = (int) (values[i] * scale);
if (values[i] >= 0)
valueY += (int) ((maxValue - values[i]) * scale);
else {
valueY += (int) (maxValue * scale);
height = -height;
}
g.setColor(colours[i]);
g.fillRect(valueX, valueY, barWidth - 2, height);
g.setColor(Color.black);
g.drawRect(valueX, valueY, barWidth - 2, height);
int labelWidth = labelFontMetrics.stringWidth(names[i]);
x = i * barWidth + (barWidth - labelWidth) / 2;
g.drawString(names[i], x, y);
}
//paintComponent(g);
}
I wish to know, what mistake I am making!