#! /usr/bin/perl use lib ("../lib"); # if you don't install the module but just untar & run example use strict; use warnings; use Image::BoxModel::Chart; my $image = new Image::BoxModel::Chart ( width => 800, height => 400, lib=> "GD", # [IM|GD] verbose =>0, background => 'white', @ARGV # used to automate via run_all_examples.pl # If you pass arguments directly from the command line be aware that there is no error-checking! ); # title $image -> Annotate ( text => 'Skip Grid and Ticks For Some Values', padding_top => 10, textsize => 20, padding_bottom => 20, ); # title for scale $image -> Annotate ( text => 'High Values', box_position => 'left', rotate => -90, textsize => 20, padding_right => 10, ); # subtitle for scale $image -> Annotate ( text => '(skip 100, determined automatically)', box_position => 'left', rotate => -90, textsize => 15, padding_right => 10, ); $image -> Annotate ( text => 'Something (long ticks, see?)', textsize => 15, box_position => 'bottom', ); print $image -> Chart ( dataset_00 => [12, 543, 32, 234, 124, 0, 34], dataset_01 => [-23, 342, 543. -500, -102, 500, 762], style => 'bar', box_border => 0, #how far the chart is set inside its grey rectangle border_thickness => 1, draw_from_base => 1, # if the chart is to be drawn from the base or not (perl-true / perl-false) scale_ticks_length => 2, values_ticks_length => 10, #~ scale_skip => 50, # let's determine scale_skip automagically :-) If you want to specify it, decomment. scale_expand_to_grid => 1, scale_annotation_rotate => 0, scale_annotation_size => 15, values_annotations => [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], values_annotation_position=>'bottom', values_annotation_size => 15, ); (my $name = $0) =~ s/\.pl$//; $image -> Save(file=> $name."_$image->{lib}.png");