GWT Highcharts - Basic Column Chart

Following is an example of a column Chart.

We have already seen the configurations used to draw a chart in Highcharts Configuration Syntax chapter. Now, let us see an example of a basic column chart. We will also understand additional configuration. We have changed the type attribute in chart.

chart

Configure the chart type to be 'column' based. chart.type decides the series type for the chart. Here, the default value is "line".

chart.setType(Type.COLUMN);

Example

HelloWorld.java

package com.tutorialspoint.client;

import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.AxisTitle;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.Chart;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.Credits;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.Legend;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.Series.Type;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.ToolTip;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.ToolTipData;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.ToolTipFormatter;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.labels.DataLabels;
import org.moxieapps.gwt.highcharts.client.plotOptions.ColumnPlotOptions;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.RootPanel;

public class HelloWorld implements EntryPoint {
   public void onModuleLoad() {
      Chart chart = new Chart()  
         .setType(Type.COLUMN)  
         .setChartTitleText("Historic World Population by Region")  
         .setChartSubtitleText("Source: Wikipedia.org")  
         .setColumnPlotOptions(new ColumnPlotOptions()  
            .setDataLabels(new DataLabels()  
               .setEnabled(true)  
            )  
         )  
         .setLegend(new Legend()  
            .setLayout(Legend.Layout.VERTICAL)  
            .setAlign(Legend.Align.RIGHT)  
            .setVerticalAlign(Legend.VerticalAlign.TOP)  
            .setX(-100)  
            .setY(100)  
            .setFloating(true)  
            .setBorderWidth(1)  
            .setBackgroundColor("#FFFFFF")  
            .setShadow(true)  
         )  
         .setCredits(new Credits()  
            .setEnabled(false)  
         )  
         .setToolTip(new ToolTip()  
            .setFormatter(new ToolTipFormatter() {
               @Override
               public String format(ToolTipData toolTipData) {
                  return toolTipData.getSeriesName() + ": " + toolTipData.getYAsLong() +" million";  
               }
         }));
         chart.getXAxis()  
            .setCategories("Africa", "America", "Asia", "Europe", "Oceania");  
         chart.getYAxis()  
            .setAxisTitle(new AxisTitle()  
               .setText("Population (millions)")  
               .setAlign(AxisTitle.Align.HIGH)  
            );  
         chart.addSeries(chart.createSeries()  
            .setName("Year 1800")  
            .setPoints(new Number[] { 107, 31, 635, 203, 2 })  
         );  
         chart.addSeries(chart.createSeries()  
            .setName("Year 1900")  
            .setPoints(new Number[] { 133, 156, 947, 408, 6 })  
         );  
         chart.addSeries(chart.createSeries()  
            .setName("Year 2008")  
            .setPoints(new Number[] { 973, 914, 4054, 732, 34 })  
         );  
      RootPanel.get().add(chart);
   }
}

Result

Verify the result.