Get X and Y Labels from a JFreeChart

[pooo]

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to get the XLabel and YLabel from a JFreeChart object. I searched the Javadoc and saw that I can get the Title of the chart, or even the Legend items, but I can't figure how to get the axis labels. I know that these labels only exist in some types of charts, such as bar charts, and I assume this is the reason why there is no getXLabel() method in the JFreeChart class. Nevertheless, it must be stored somewhere.

I am using JFreeChart v1.0.13 and JDK v1.6.0_21.

Thank you for your time.

[skunk]

Depends on which labels you are looking for. First, get a reference to the axis by calling plot.getDomainAxis(...) or plot.getRangeAxis(...)
The base class org.jfree.chart.axis.Axis defines this method

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public String getLabel()

If you are looking for the actual tick labels, call this method

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public abstract java.util.List refreshTicks(java.awt.Graphics2D g2,
                                            AxisState state,
                                            java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D dataArea,
                                            org.jfree.ui.RectangleEdge edge)

Each element of the returned List is an instance of org.jfree.chart.axis.Tick

[pooo]

Thank you ! Problem solved !

For future reference, this is the exact code I used :

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JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createBarChart3D(...);

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String xLabel = chart.getCategoryPlot().getDomainAxis().getLabel();
String yLabel = chart.getCategoryPlot().getRangeAxis().getLabel();