An example demonstrating how to set the background color of a number of areas of the StackedTimePlot2D

TimelineBackgroundColorExample.java

import com.metsci.glimpse.examples.Example;
import com.metsci.glimpse.layout.GlimpseLayout;
import com.metsci.glimpse.painter.decoration.BackgroundPainter;
import com.metsci.glimpse.plot.timeline.StackedTimePlot2D;
import com.metsci.glimpse.plot.timeline.layout.TimePlotInfo;
import com.metsci.glimpse.support.color.GlimpseColor;
import com.metsci.glimpse.support.settings.OceanLookAndFeel;

public class TimelineBackgroundColorExample extends CollapsibleTimelinePlotExample
{
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
    {
        Example example = Example.showWithSwing( new TimelineBackgroundColorExample( ) );

        // use the ocean look and feel
        example.getCanvas( ).setLookAndFeel( new OceanLookAndFeel( ) );
    }

    @Override
    public StackedTimePlot2D getLayout( )
    {
        StackedTimePlot2D plot = super.getLayout( );

        plot.setBackgroundColor( GlimpseColor.getRed( ) );

        // get a reference to one of the plots
        TimePlotInfo plotInfo = plot.getTimePlot( "speed-plot-1-id" );

        // set the background color of the plot
        plotInfo.getBackgroundPainter( ).setColor( GlimpseColor.getBlue( ) );

        // set the background color of the plot label
        // the API doesn't provide quite as clean a way to do this at the moment, but it is possible
        
        // first get the GlimpseLayout which defines the location of the plot label
        GlimpseLayout labelLayout = plotInfo.getLabelLayout( );
        
        // add a new BackgroundPainter (which paints a solid color) to the GlimpseLayout and set
        // its ordering value so that it appears behind all other painters
        labelLayout.addPainter( new BackgroundPainter( ).setColor( GlimpseColor.getGreen( ) ), Integer.MIN_VALUE );

        return plot;
    }
}