Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
You may notice in the screenshot that I made some other changes. Besides aligning
and sizing the objects, I also fixed the following things:
• Removed the border from the
Search
box.
• Changed the fixed number of columns from the
Quarter
listbox to
4
.
• Changed the fixed number of columns from the
Month
listbox to
12
.
• Added a caption to the
Traffic per Year
chart.
• Right-aligned the expression labels in the
Top 10 Routes
chart.
See if you can apply these changes as well.
Creating and applying a default color map
Now there is only one thing left to do to finish styling up our document: apply
the standard HighCloud
color scheme to our charts.
Defining chart colors
We'll start by applying the HighCloud colors to the
Traffic per Year
chart. Follow
these steps:
1.
Right-click on the bar chart and select
Properties…
.
2.
Navigate to the
Colors
tab.
3.
From the
Data Appearance
section, click on the first color button under the
Colors 1-6
list, and the already familiar
Color Area
dialog will appear.
4.
Change the
Base Color
to the already defined
HighCloud Blue
and close the
Color Area
window.
5.
Then, click on the second color button from the color map and change it to
HighCloud Brown
.
6.
Click on
OK
to close the
Chart Properties
window.
Once we've changed the color map, our chart will adopt the new colors in the order
that was defined. At this time, only one color (
HighCloud Blue
) is used by the chart.
However, we will use the same color map for all of our future charts, and some of
them will indeed require more of the defined colors.
