accessing ticklabels

losganjas · Post by **losganjas** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:23 pm

hello jfreecharters !

as a newbie, I m trying to accessing the ticklabels in order to change them. Instead of only displaying numbers like 0, 5, 10, etc I m trying to have 0%, 5%, 10%, etc...is there any way to pass a string or something else to the ticklabels ?

does anyone have a clue ? thanx !

astenwick · Post by **astenwick** » Wed May 12, 2004 5:50 pm

You can create your own NumberFormat class that appends a percentage sign to all numbers (NumberFormat is an abstract class). Then use NumberAxis and set the NumberFormatOverride with your new class.

ex:

PercentFormat myFormatter = new PercentFormat();
NumberAxis axis = new NumberAxis();
axis.setNumberFormatOverride(myFormatter);

Post by **david.gilbert** » Wed May 12, 2004 10:53 pm

You can use this method from the standard Java libraries to get a percent formatter:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api ... ntInstance()

...or create an instance of DecimalFormat with a format string something like "0.00%".