Pattern Fills


Chart objects such as bars and symbols can be pattern filled. The use of pattern fills allows people viewing charts printed on black and white printers to better distinguish between data sets. The new CDL parameters that implement pattern fills all have the same general format. This parameter is a vector of tuples. Each tuple defines the pattern fill for a particular data set and contains 4 attributes, (except the dialchart fill which has 5 tuples). The legal values for these attributes are defined in the following table. Pattern fills were introduced in NetCharts 4.0.

Chart Specific Pattern Fill CDL Parameters

Background CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill

  BackgroundFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BackgroundFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
BarChart CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill
  BarFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
  STACKEDGROUPED: BarFillPattern[1-50]P[1-50] =(type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarFillPattern1P2 = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
  BarRightFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarRightFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
  STACKEDGROUPED: BarRightFillPattern[1-50]P[1-50] =(type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarRightFillPattern1P2 = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
  BarTopFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarTopFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);
  STACKEDGROUPED: BarTopFillPattern[1-50]P[1-50] =(type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarTopFillPattern1P2 = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

BoxChart CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill

  BoxFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BoxFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

BubbleChart CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill

  BubbleFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BubbleFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

ComboChart CDL Parameters for Pattern Fill

  BarFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  LineFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: LineFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  BarRightFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarRightFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  BarTopFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarTopFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

DialChart CDL Parameters for Pattern Fill

  DialFillPatterns = (name,type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: DialFillPatterns = ("DialName",GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  DialOuterFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL);
    example: DialOuterFillPattern = (GRADIENTVERTICAL, teal, xfcfce9 );

  Specifies the background color behind the Dial chart and inside a beveled border specified by
  DialOuterBorder.  If DialOuterBorder is specified and DialOuterFillPattern is NOT specified,
  DialOuterFillPattern defaults to a GRADIENTVERTICAL using color1 and color2 from DialOuterBorder.

  SectorFillPatterns = (name,type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: SectorFillPatterns = ("SectorName",GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

LineChart CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill

  LineFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
     example: LineFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

PieChart CDL Parameter for Pattern Fill

  SliceFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: SliceFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

StockChart CDL Parameters for Pattern Fill

  BarFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  LineFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: LineFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  StockFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: StockFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  BarRightFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarRightFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

  BarTopFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: BarTopFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

StripChart CDL Parameters for Pattern Fill

 LineFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: LineFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

XY Chart CDL Parameters for Patterm Fill

 LineFillPattern = (type, color1, color2, imageURL), ...;
    example: LineFillPattern = (GRADIENTHORIZONTAL, white, blue);

Type NONE no pattern, do default fill, if any
  Built-In Patterns
  FSLASH front slash type
  BSLASH back slash type
  DGRID diagonal grid lines, (front and back slash lines)
  HORIZONTAL horizontal lines
  VERTICAL vertical lines
  GRID grid lines, (horizontal and vertical lines)
  Gradients
  GRADIENTVERTICAL bottom to top style gradient
  GRADIENTHORIZONTAL left to right style gradient
  GRADIENTFDIAG top right to bottom left style gradient
  GRADIENTBDIAG top left to bottom right style gradient
  GRADIENTRADIAL radial style gradient
  GRADIENTCENTERHORIZONTAL center out horizontal gradient
  GRADIENTCENTERVERTICAL center out vertical gradient
  Images
  IMAGE use an image specified in the optional imageURL element
color1 This color is used in the following ways:
- Foreground color for patterns
- Starting color for gradients
- Ignored in images		  
color 2

This color is used in the following ways:

- Background color for patterns
- Stopping color for gradients
- Ignored in images

  
imageURL The URL to an image to use as the fill  

Note: The Gradient and Translucent effects work well together, however, the Built-In patterns do not display
well using a translucent color scheme.