In my JFreeChart timeseries plots I find the legends lines to thin to see the colour accurately. Another post [ jfreechart - change sample of colors in legend ] suggested overriding a renderer method as follows:
renderer = new XYLineAndShapeRenderer()
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public Shape lookupLegendShape(int series)
{
return new Rectangle(15, 15);
}
};
this approach works fine until you do what I did
renderer.setSeriesShapesVisible(i, false);
Once I did that the legend reverts back to a line. Is there any way round this?
The solution I adopted is close to that suggested by TrashGod I overrode the getLegendItem() method, forcing the legend shape to the desired box.
renderer = new XYLineAndShapeRenderer()
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public LegendItem getLegendItem(int datasetIndex, int series)
{
LegendItem legend = super.getLegendItem(datasetIndex, series);
return new LegendItem(legend.getLabel(), legend.getDescription(), legend.getToolTipText(), legend.getURLText(), Plot.DEFAULT_LEGEND_ITEM_BOX, legend.getFillPaint());
}
};