I found a thermometer demo and customized it for my dashboard project. http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Chart/JFreeChartThermometerDemo2.htm
In my dashboard I have six thermometer with different Mercury Color. However, I cannot seem to find a way to change the color of the range numbers that are displayed beside the thermometer.
How do I change the range number text color from Black to White?
My Demo Thermometer screenshot
package Thermometers;
import java.awt.BasicStroke;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartPanel;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.ThermometerPlot;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultValueDataset;
import App.App_v2;
public class ThermometerDemo2 extends JPanel
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public ThermometerDemo2(Color color, double maxValue)
{
// create a dataset...
final DefaultValueDataset dataset = new DefaultValueDataset(110);
// create the chart...
final ThermometerPlot plot = new ThermometerPlot(dataset);
plot.setRange(0.0, maxValue);
plot.setSubrange(ThermometerPlot.CRITICAL, 250, 300);
plot.setValueFont(new Font("Georgia", Font.BOLD, 32));
plot.setThermometerStroke(new BasicStroke(2.0f));
plot.setBackgroundPaint(new Color(20,42,60));
plot.setMercuryPaint(color);
final JFreeChart chart = new JFreeChart(plot);
chart.setBorderVisible(false);
// add the chart to a panel...
ChartPanel chartPanel = new ChartPanel(chart);
this.add(chartPanel);
this.setBackground(new Color(20,42,60));
}
public static void main(final String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("change the black range color into white");
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setSize(500, 500);
ThermometerDemo2 demo = new ThermometerDemo2(Color.magenta, 300);
demo.setVisible(true);
frame.add(demo);
frame.pack();
}
}