flex stacked column graph

Flex: Stacked column chart – programmatically in actionscript

By bishopondevelopment

I was looking for ages for an example of a dynamically generated stacked column chart in Flex, but most of the examples were incorporating some MXML, or contained hard-coded series objects.

The example below is based on Adobe Livedocs, but I show how to generate the series arrays programatically in as3, with no use of mxml code, and apply these series to a column chart (added topanelActionscript as seen in the code below). Also, this could be easily adapted to a barchart.

If youve got any suggestions, let me know.

Flex Stacked Chart

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="initApp()" width="622" height="660">

<mx:Script>

<![CDATA[

   import mx.charts.CategoryAxis;

   import mx.charts.series.ColumnSeries;
  import mx.charts.ColumnChart;
  import mx.charts.series.ColumnSet;
   import mx.charts.Legend;
   import mx.charts.BarChart;
   import mx.charts.series.BarSet;
   import mx.charts.series.BarSeries;
   import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

[Bindable]
     private var yearlyData:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([
        {month:"January", revenue:120, costs:45, overhead:102, oneTime:23},
        {month:"February", revenue:108, costs:42, overhead:87, oneTime:47},
        {month:"March", revenue:150, costs:82, overhead:32, oneTime:21},
        {month:"April", revenue:170, costs:44, overhead:68},
        {month:"May", revenue:250, costs:57, overhead:77, oneTime:17},
        {month:"June", revenue:200, costs:33, overhead:51, oneTime:30},
        {month:"July", revenue:145, costs:80, overhead:62, oneTime:18},
        {month:"August", revenue:166, costs:87, overhead:48},
        {month:"September", revenue:103, costs:56, overhead:42},
        {month:"October", revenue:140, costs:91, overhead:45, oneTime:60},
        {month:"November", revenue:100, costs:42, overhead:33, oneTime:67},
        {month:"December", revenue:182, costs:56, overhead:25, oneTime:48},
        {month:"May", revenue:120, costs:57, overhead:30}
     ]);

private function initApp():void {

// Create a column chart object

        var stackedColumnChart:ColumnChart = new ColumnChart();
        stackedColumnChart.dataProvider = yearlyData;
        stackedColumnChart.showDataTips = true;

 stackedColumnChart.width = 460;

 

 // Set the horizontal axix category

        var xAxis:CategoryAxis = new CategoryAxis();
        xAxis.categoryField = "month";
        stackedColumnChart.horizontalAxis = xAxis;

 // ColumnSet.series is an array which contains

 // an array of ColumnSeries objects.

        var columnSet:ColumnSet = new ColumnSet();
        columnSet.type = "stacked";

// Each item in seriesDetails becomes a different segment of
        // a column in the stacked chart i.e. each item represents a series.
        var seriesDetails:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([
        {YField:"costs", DisplayName:"Recurring Costs"},
        {YField:"overhead", DisplayName:"Overhead Costs"},
        {YField:"oneTime", DisplayName:"One-Time Costs"}
        ]);

// Create a ColumnSeries, and an array to be
        // populated with dynamically generated columnSeries objects
        var columnSeries:ColumnSeries;

var seriesArray:Array = new Array();

// Generate an array of ColumnSeries objects
        // which are then be applied to the ColumnSet series.
        for(var i:int = 0; i < seriesDetails.length; i++){
        columnSeries = new ColumnSeries();
        columnSeries.yField = seriesDetails[i].YField;
        columnSeries.displayName = seriesDetails[i].DisplayName;
        seriesArray.push(columnSeries);
        }
        columnSet.series = seriesArray;

 // c.series could take an array of column sets

 // for displaying mixed charts i.e. c.series = [columnSet1, columnSet2];

 stackedColumnChart.series = [columnSet];

var legend:Legend = new Legend();
        legend.direction = "horizontal";
        legend.dataProvider = stackedColumnChart;

panelActionscript.addChild(stackedColumnChart);
        panelActionscript.addChild(legend);

}

  ]]></mx:Script>

  <mx:VBox height="100%">
    <mx:Panel title="Stacked chart (dynamically created in ActionScript)"
    id="panelActionscript" width="490">
    </mx:Panel>
  </mx:VBox>
  <mx:Panel title="Same chart created solely in MXML" id="panelMxml" width="490">
    <mx:ColumnChart id="mxmlColumnChart" dataProvider="{yearlyData}"
    showDataTips="true" width="470">
      <mx:horizontalAxis>
           <mx:CategoryAxis categoryField="month"/>
       </mx:horizontalAxis>
       <mx:series>
           <mx:ColumnSet type="stacked">
               <mx:ColumnSeries
                   yField="costs"
                   displayName="Recurring Costs"/>
               <mx:ColumnSeries
                   yField="overhead"
                   displayName="Overhead Costs"/>
               <mx:ColumnSeries
                   yField="oneTime"
                   displayName="One-Time Costs"/>
           </mx:ColumnSet>
       </mx:series>
    </mx:ColumnChart>
    <mx:Legend dataProvider="{mxmlColumnChart}" direction="horizontal"/>
  </mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>