[reportlab-users] color individual bars

[Dirk Datzert]

Hi all,

I read thru the mail-archive of this month and found several article 
about coloring bars. My intention is to color each bar with an 
individual color. Context from the mail-archive was that it should be 
possible, but I walked thru the examples and the barcharts.py while
I thing it won't work as expected.

from makeBars:

                lenData = len(self.data)
                reversePlotOrder = self.reversePlotOrder
                for rowNo in range(lenData):
                        if reversePlotOrder: rowNo = lenData-1 - rowNo
                        row = self._barPositions[rowNo]
                        styleCount = len(self.bars)
                        styleIdx = rowNo % styleCount
                        rowStyle = self.bars[styleIdx]
                        for colNo in range(len(row)):
                                barPos = row[colNo]

lenData is the count of data rows
rowNo is the current number of data row which is drawn
styleCount is the count of bars definition

If lenData is 1, and in the one row are the data it is impossible to
color 
each bar with an individual color since styleIdx will always be 0 and
rowStyle will always be self.bars[0] -> All bars will be the same color!

On the other way I found that each barLabel can be individual defined
since self.barLabels[(rowNo, colNo)] will be defined for each row and 
column.

I thing that something like bars[(rowNo, colNo)] should be implemented
in the BarChart or in a derived class, if really individual bar colors
should be useable.

Does anybody agree with this ?

Regards,
Dirk