Styles

The style page lists the styles available and displays the style used by the chart that you are currently editing.

A style specifies the appearance of a chart. A single style can be used by one or more charts. If you want to change the appearance of all of them then simply edit the properties of the style that they use.

The application comes with a set of styles which you can edit or you can add your own new styles by pressing the New.. button.

To specify a style for the current chart

Select the desired style from the list - it will then be applied as the style for the current chart.

Press "Next >" to continue to the next page where you can set up naming for your chart.

Creating a new style

To create a new style click on New... and fill out the details for your style.

Editing the properties of an existing style

To edit an existing style click on Properties... and edit the properties of the style.

NOTE: editing the properties of a style affects all charts using that style.

Style Properties Form

The styles properties form is a composed of a variety of property sheets. There is a slight difference in the options available between Pie Charts and Column/Line charts but the are a lot of common options.

Property Sheets Common to all charts

Chart Area

The chart area property sheet allows configuration of the size of the chart, text color, background color and animation duration.

Plot Area

This property sheet allows configuration of the appearance of the main chart area: series colors, background shading, horizontal lines, the appearance of the individual elements (fill style: solid, linear gradient, radial gradient etc.,), the animation effect (fade, grow, etc.,)

For 2D charts the user can select either column or line chart display. For column charting a "Stacked" check box specifies that columns should be stacked on top of each other instead of being "clustered" next to each other.

For 2D column charts the user can also turn on 'hovering value display'. When this is turned on the value of the various data elements on the chart will appear above the element when the mouse enters the element and will fade out when the mouse exits the element.

Title/Legend

Allows specification of the fonts used for title, subtitle and legend text.