# Example (JKQTPlotter): Simple stacked barchart {#JKQTPlotterStackedBarChart} This project (see `./examples/simpletest_stackedbars/`) simply creates a JKQTPlotter widget (as a new window) and adds several stacked barcharts. The source code of the main application is (see [`jkqtplotter_simpletest_stackedbars.cpp`](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/tree/master/examples/simpletest_stackedbars/jkqtplotter_simpletest_stackedbars.cpp): ```.cpp #include #include "jkqtplotter/jkqtplotter.h" #include "jkqtplotter/graphs/jkqtpbarchart.h" #define Ndata 5 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { QApplication app(argc, argv); // 1. create a plotter window and get a pointer to the internal datastore (for convenience) JKQTPlotter plot; plot.getPlotter()->setUseAntiAliasingForGraphs(true); // nicer (but slower) plotting plot.getPlotter()->setUseAntiAliasingForSystem(true); // nicer (but slower) plotting plot.getPlotter()->setUseAntiAliasingForText(true); // nicer (but slower) text rendering JKQTPDatastore* ds=plot.getDatastore(); // 2. now we create data for the charts (taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Energiemix_Deutschland.svg) QVector year, percentage_other, percentage_coaloil, percentage_gas, percentage_nuclear, percentage_green; year << 1990 << 1995 << 2000 << 2005 << 2010 << 2015; percentage_other << 3.5 << 3.5 << 4.4 << 4.4 << 5 << 5 ; percentage_coaloil << 58.7 << 55.7 << 51.5 << 48.2 << 42.9 << 43.1; percentage_gas << 6.5 << 7.7 << 8.5 << 11.7 << 14.1 << 9.6 ; percentage_nuclear << 27.7 << 28.7 << 29.4 << 26.2 << 22.2 << 14.2; percentage_green << 3.6 << 4.4 << 6.2 << 9.5 << 15.8 << 28.1; // 3. make data available to JKQTPlotter by adding it to the internal datastore. // Note: In this step the data is copied (of not specified otherwise) // the variables cYear, cOther ... will contain the internal column ID of the // newly created columns with names "year" and "other" ... and the (copied) data size_t cYear=ds->addCopiedColumn(year, "year"); size_t cOther=ds->addCopiedColumn(percentage_other, "other"); size_t cCoalOil=ds->addCopiedColumn(percentage_coaloil, "coal & oil"); size_t cGas=ds->addCopiedColumn(percentage_gas, "natural gas"); size_t cNuclear=ds->addCopiedColumn(percentage_nuclear, "nuclear energy"); size_t cGreen=ds->addCopiedColumn(percentage_green, "green energy"); // 4. create graphs in the plot, which plots the dataset year/other, year/coal, ... // The color of the graphs is set by calling setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(), which sets the // fillColor to the given color and makes the outline of the bars (i.e. their "color") a darker // shade of the given color. QVector graphs; graphs.push_back(new JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph(&plot)); graphs.back()->setXColumn(cYear); graphs.back()->setYColumn(cOther); graphs.back()->setTitle(QObject::tr("other sources")); graphs.back()->setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(QColor("red")); graphs.push_back(new JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph(&plot)); graphs.back()->setXColumn(cYear); graphs.back()->setYColumn(cCoalOil); graphs.back()->setTitle(QObject::tr("coal & oil")); graphs.back()->setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(QColor("darkgrey")); graphs.back()->stackUpon(graphs[graphs.size()-2]); graphs.push_back(new JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph(&plot)); graphs.back()->setXColumn(cYear); graphs.back()->setYColumn(cGas); graphs.back()->setTitle(QObject::tr("natural gas")); graphs.back()->setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(QColor("blue")); graphs.back()->stackUpon(graphs[graphs.size()-2]); graphs.push_back(new JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph(&plot)); graphs.back()->setXColumn(cYear); graphs.back()->setYColumn(cNuclear); graphs.back()->setTitle(QObject::tr("nuclear energy")); graphs.back()->setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(QColor("gold")); graphs.back()->stackUpon(graphs[graphs.size()-2]); graphs.push_back(new JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph(&plot)); graphs.back()->setXColumn(cYear); graphs.back()->setYColumn(cGreen); graphs.back()->setTitle(QObject::tr("green energy")); graphs.back()->setFillColor_and_darkenedColor(QColor("darkgreen")); graphs.back()->stackUpon(graphs[graphs.size()-2]); // 5. add the graphs to the plot, so it is actually displayed plot.addGraphs(graphs); // 6. set axis labels plot.getXAxis()->setAxisLabel("year"); plot.getYAxis()->setAxisLabel("fraction of energy production in Germany [%]"); // 7. finally we move the plot key/legend to the outside, top-right // and lay it out as a single row // NOTE: plot is a descendent of QWidget, which uses an internal object of // type JKQTBasePlotter, which does the actual plotting. // So many properties of the plot are only available in this internal // object, which you can access by plot.getPlotter(). plot.getPlotter()->setKeyPosition(JKQTPKeyOutsideTopRight); plot.getPlotter()->setKeyLayout(JKQTPKeyLayoutOneRow); // 8 autoscale the plot so the graph is contained plot.zoomToFit(); // show plotter and make it a decent size plot.show(); plot.resize(600,400); return app.exec(); } ``` The result looks like this: ![JKQTPBarVerticalGraphStacked](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkriege2/JKQTPlotter/master/doc/images/JKQTPbarVerticalGraphStacked.png) If you use `JKQTPBarHorizontalGraphStacked` instead of `JKQTPBarVerticalStackableGraph`, you'll get a result like this: ![JKQTPBarHorizontalGraphStacked](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkriege2/JKQTPlotter/master/doc/images/JKQTPbarHorizontalGraphStacked.png)