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In my application, the user can create and use multiple charts simultaneously. Currently, each chart is in its own JFrame with DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE set as its default close action. When closing and disposing of a JFrame and ChartPanel, is a call to dispose() sufficient to free up all resources, listener...

For anyone's benefit, here are 2 ways to set a chart into a JPanel: First get your chart setup. Something like: MyCategoryDataset dataset = new MyCategoryDataset( initialData ); JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createBarChart( "Bar Demo", "Category", "Value", dataset, PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, ...

Your suggestion was dead on. the problem was the layout manager.

The layout manager, javax.swing.GroupLayout, was not being used correctly.
There were two fixes--both worked.
1. use the GroupLayout correctly.
2. switch to a simpler LayoutManager such as FlowLayout.

Thanks for the help!
Stu

Dave and all the other contributors to JFreeChart, I just want to pass along some positive comments about JFreeChart. I am sure you get lots of questions and complaints from the various users around the net (especially newbies), but you may not hear much from those that have downloaded and used JFre...

indio, I agree with the intent of the approach you outlined above. The pattern you might use is a Facade. Basically write several classes that instantiate the settings you want. These classes use the ChartFactory as needed. And do all the customized settings. You can further streamline the approach ...

Is there any problem with adding a ChartPanel to a GUI and using one layout manager when the JPanel into which the ChartPanel is added uses a different layout manager? For example, if I use NetBean's GUI builder (NetBeans 6.0.1) to initially build an application, javax.swing.GroupLayout is used to l...