Changing Chart Configuration

ZK Charts provides a set of comprehensive API for chart initial configuration, you can change the configuration very easily by simply calling API. For example, if we want to change the title's configuration, we can call chart.getTitle() method to get the Title class then modify its attributes as below:

    // Get the title option of chart
    Title title = chart.getTitle();

    // Set some attributes
    title.setText("It's a title");
    title.setX(100);
    title.setY(250);

Of course you can also create a new Title class and assign it to chart:

    // Create a new Title
    Title title = new Title();

    // Set some attributes
    title.setText("Yet another title");
    title.setX(200);
    title.setY(400);

    // Assign title to chart
    chart.setTitle(title);

The API relation with Highcharts

Since ZK Charts is based on Hicharts, we design its API according to Highcharts options. Normally, ZK Charts has corresponding Java API (getter / setter) for every supported Hightcharts option.

For example:

Highcharts option	ZK Charts API
plotOptions.line.enableMouseTracking	chart.getPlotOptions().getLine().isEnableMouseTracking() chart.getPlotOptions().getLine().setEnableMouseTracking(false)

So you can look Highcharts option document first for an option's function then call the corresponding Java API.

Supported Version

Please remember to check which Highcharts version is available for the option.

You can know the version of Highcharts bundled in ZK Charts by checking chart.wpd in a developer tool.

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