Multiline XYTextAnnotation

truthsense · Post by **truthsense** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:09 pm

I want to be able to use line wrapping/new lines in XYAnnotations. I want to add statistical annotation options for the user in our application that could be 5-6 lines; however, using html or newline characters in the text doesn't work.

Is adding multiline tooltips currently a possibility, or would I have to work out a way to add another XYAnnotation for each line while adding or subtracting a certain number of pixels?

Allamistakeo · Post by **Allamistakeo** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:46 am

Newline characters don't work indeed, but HTML code works fine with me:

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<html><body>first line<br>second line</body></html>

truthsense · Post by **truthsense** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:05 pm

Thanks Allamistakeo.

I used the string you gave in order to test JFreeChart but when I add a new XYTextAnnotation("<html><body>first line<br>second line</body></html>", x, y); the string is placed exactly as stated on the chart. No formatting.

Is this version specific, or do you have to set a specific property? I am using 1.0 RC2

Post by **david.gilbert** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:35 pm

I think the HTML will work in a tooltip, but not the XYTextAnnotation. It probably wouldn't be too hard to modify XYTextAnnotation to use multiple lines. Patches are welcome, as long as they maintain backwards compatibility of course.

snid3ly · Post by **snid3ly** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:43 pm

Did anyone ever fix this?

I need to pass in multiline Labels to XYPointerAnnotation.

gliesian · Post by **gliesian** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:15 pm

I'm trying to do this too... any resolution or answers here?

Thanks,
Robert

dkrider · Post by **dkrider** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:55 pm

I messed around with this for a while before I finally came across XYTitleAnnotation. This will place a multi-line annotation in the upper left corner of the plot.

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TextTitle textTitle = new TextTitle("first line\nsecond line", new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.PLAIN, 8), Color.BLACK, RectangleEdge.TOP, HorizontalAlignment.LEFT,
            		VerticalAlignment.TOP, new RectangleInsets(2, 2, 2, 2));
XYTitleAnnotation xyTitleAnnotation = new XYTitleAnnotation(0, 1, textTitle, RectangleAnchor.TOP_LEFT);
            
plot.addAnnotation(xyTitleAnnotation);

ricochet99 · Post by **ricochet99** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:02 am

I found this class yesterday (https://github.com/JeremyMcCormick/jfre ... ation.java) and added TextAnchor support in a fork:

https://github.com/rivella50/jfreechart ... ation.java

Works perfectly for me:

Slaysn · Post by **Slaysn** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:29 am

Hi,

had the same problem. Solved it by adding an annotation for each line manually. Here is a quick fix:

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private void addMultilineTextAnnotations(double x, double y, String label, Color color) {
        String[] lines = label.split("\n");
        for(int i=0; i < lines.length;  i++){
            XYTextAnnotation annotationLabel = new XYTextAnnotation(lines[i], 
                    x,  y - (i+1) * XYTextAnnotation.DEFAULT_FONT.getSize());
            annotationLabel.setPaint(color);
            plot.addAnnotation(annotationLabel);
        }
}

Seems to work fine for me.

Cheers,

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