Manage Titles of Excel Charts with C++

In Excel charts, there are 2 kinds of title:

1. Chart Title
2. Axis Titles

Title Options

Aspose.Cells also allows you to manage chart titles at runtime. With the Title object, you can change text, font, and fill format for titles.

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Setting the Titles of Charts or Axes

You can use Microsoft Excel to set the titles of a chart and its axes in a WYSIWYG environment. Aspose.Cells also allows developers to set the titles of a chart and its axes at runtime. All charts and their axes contain a Title property that can be used to set their titles, as shown in the example below.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to set titles for charts and axes.

#include <iostream>
#include "Aspose.Cells.h"
using namespace Aspose::Cells;
using namespace Aspose::Cells::Charts;
using namespace Aspose::Cells::Drawing;

int main()
{
    Aspose::Cells::Startup();

    // Source directory path
    U16String srcDir(u"..\\Data\\01_SourceDirectory\\");

    // Output directory path
    U16String outDir(u"..\\Data\\02_OutputDirectory\\");

    // Instantiating a Workbook object
    Workbook workbook;

    // Adding a new worksheet to the Workbook object
    int sheetIndex = workbook.GetWorksheets().Add();

    // Obtaining the reference of the newly added worksheet by passing its sheet index
    Worksheet worksheet = workbook.GetWorksheets().Get(sheetIndex);

    // Adding sample values to cells
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"A1").PutValue(50);
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"A2").PutValue(100);
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"A3").PutValue(150);
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"B1").PutValue(60);
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"B2").PutValue(32);
    worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"B3").PutValue(50);

    // Adding a chart to the worksheet
    int chartIndex = worksheet.GetCharts().Add(ChartType::Column, 5, 0, 15, 5);

    // Accessing the instance of the newly added chart
    Chart chart = worksheet.GetCharts().Get(chartIndex);

    // Adding SeriesCollection (chart data source) to the chart ranging from "A1" cell to "B3"
    chart.GetNSeries().Add(u"A1:B3", true);

    // Setting the foreground color of the plot area
    chart.GetPlotArea().GetArea().SetForegroundColor(Color::Blue());

    // Setting the foreground color of the chart area
    chart.GetChartArea().GetArea().SetForegroundColor(Color::Yellow());

    // Setting the foreground color of the 1st SeriesCollection area
    chart.GetNSeries().Get(0).GetArea().SetForegroundColor(Color::Red());

    // Setting the foreground color of the area of the 1st SeriesCollection point
    chart.GetNSeries().Get(0).GetPoints().Get(0).GetArea().SetForegroundColor(Color::Cyan());

    // Filling the area of the 2nd SeriesCollection with a gradient
    chart.GetNSeries().Get(1).GetArea().GetFillFormat().SetOneColorGradient(Color::Lime(), 1, GradientStyleType::Horizontal, 1);

    // Setting the title of a chart
    chart.GetTitle().SetText(u"Title");

    // Setting the font color of the chart title to blue
    chart.GetTitle().GetFont().SetColor(Color::Blue());

    // Setting the title of category axis of the chart
    chart.GetCategoryAxis().GetTitle().SetText(u"Category");

    // Setting the title of value axis of the chart
    chart.GetValueAxis().GetTitle().SetText(u"Value");

    // Saving the Excel file
    workbook.Save(outDir + u"book1.out.xls");

    std::cout << "Chart created successfully!" << std::endl;

    Aspose::Cells::Cleanup();
}

Advanced Topics

• Read Chart Subtitle from ODS File