Creating a Pie chart

This chart shows only one dataset as the pie's slices. The bigger a corresponding value, the bigger its slice:

// chapter10/chart/PieChartDemo.java
ObservableList<PieChart.Data> pieChartData =
    FXCollections.observableArrayList(
                new PieChart.Data("Luck", 10),
                new PieChart.Data("Skill", 30),
                new PieChart.Data("Power of Will", 15),
                new PieChart.Data("Pleasure", 5),
                new PieChart.Data("Pain", 40));

The JavaFX PieChart for this looks as follows:

Note that numbers in PieChart.Data are not always percents—the total sum is calculated on each new element and each number represents a share of this total sum.

Additionally, all you need to create PieChart is to choose the title and legend options:

PieChart chart = new PieChart(data);
chart.setTitle("Success");
chart.setLegendSide(Side.LEFT);

stage.setScene(new Scene(chart, 530, 400));
stage.setTitle("Pie Chart Demo");
stage.show();

Note that the chart will automatically resize, doing its best to adapt to the new size:

And it can be animated; try this code to see an animation:

chart.setOnMouseClicked((e)-> {
    pieChartData.add(new PieChart.Data("Stuff",10));
});

The legend is not that useful in our example, so you can either hide it or the chart labels using the PieChart.setLabelsVisible(boolean value) and PieChart.setLegendVisible(boolean value) methods.

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