Changing background colour of jFreeChart

java swing jfreechart
enjal picture enjal · Aug 24, 2014 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I am trying to change the background color of jfreechart. It is displaying in grey color and I want a white background. I have tried

chart.setBackgroundPaint(Color.WHITE);

However it does not show me the white background.
I have the following code that displays the the plot

chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Line Chart","Year","Temperature", dataset);
ChartPanel chartPanel = new ChartPanel(chart, false);
graph1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
graph1.add(chartPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
graph1.add(chartPanel);
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);
graph1.updateUI();
System.out.println("Database created successfully...");

How should I set a white background?

Answer

Aubin picture Aubin · Aug 24, 2014

ChartPanel inherit method javax.swing.JComponent.setBackground(java.awt.Color)

chartPanel.setBackground( Color.RED );

Or try:

chart.getPlot().setBackgroundPaint( Color.BLUE );

See documentation of JFreeChart.getPlot() and Plot.setBackgroundPaint()

See this post on SO or this one too.

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