Review of other XY charts

The rest of the charts are just variations of a line chart. You can use the same code to show most of them, like in the next screenshot:

There are these interesting points in the code for this example:

  • We are using CategoryAxis for months to show a new API and because bar charts don't work with a horizontal NumberAxis
  • You need to provide a separate instance of axes and series for each chart
  • Charts monitor their data through binding, so to add new data you just need to update the series lists
  • All new data will be animated

Refer to the following code snippet:

// chapter10/chart/XYChartsDemo.javapublic void start(Stage ...

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