Changing background colour of jFreeChart

Question

I am trying to change the background color of jfreechart. It is displaying in grey color and I want a white background. I have tried

chart.setBackgroundPaint(Color.WHITE);

However it does not show me the white background.
I have the following code that displays the the plot

chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Line Chart","Year","Temperature", dataset);
ChartPanel chartPanel = new ChartPanel(chart, false);
graph1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
graph1.add(chartPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
graph1.add(chartPanel);
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);
graph1.updateUI();
System.out.println("Database created successfully...");

How should I set a white background?

Don't call updateComponentTree or. UpdateUI, these are expensive calls and are related to updating the look and feel — MadProgrammer, Aug 24 '14 at 07:33
Please edit your question to include version numbers, an [mcve](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve), and a [screenshot](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/99734/how-do-i-create-a-screenshot-to-illustrate-a-post) that shows the expected result. — trashgod, Aug 24 '14 at 15:14

Aubin · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-17T08:35:54.483

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ChartPanel inherit method javax.swing.JComponent.setBackground(java.awt.Color)

chartPanel.setBackground( Color.RED );

Or try:

chart.getPlot().setBackgroundPaint( Color.BLUE );

See documentation of JFreeChart.getPlot() and Plot.setBackgroundPaint()

See this post on SO or this one too.

edited Apr 17 '20 at 08:35

answered Aug 24 '14 at 07:17

Aubin

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The first example doesn't work on my side, the second one does. – ThCollignon Apr 28 '21 at 06:35

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '18 at 06:54

You have to use JFreeChart.getPlot().setBackgroundPaint(Color.WHITE); like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    DefaultPieDataset pieDataset = new DefaultPieDataset(); 
    pieDataset.setValue("LoggedIn" +": "+ 5, 10);
    pieDataset.setValue("LoggedOut" +": "+ 8, 17);
    JFreeChart jfc = ChartFactory.createPieChart("title", pieDataset, false, false, false );
    jfc.getPlot().setBackgroundPaint(Color.WHITE);
    ChartPanel chart = new ChartPanel(jfc);
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.add(chart);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

I hope it helps!

Changing background colour of jFreeChart

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