You can use PATTERN
statements to specify patterns, including color or fill type or both.
You can also specify images to fill the bars of two-dimensional bar
charts.
For complete information
about all patterns, see the PATTERN Statement. See also the section on controlling
patterns and colors for each chart type.
When you use PATTERN
statements, the procedure uses the specified patterns until all of
the PATTERN definitions that they generate have been used. Then, if
more patterns are required, it returns to the default pattern rotation.
To change the outline
color of any pattern, whether it is a default or user-defined pattern,
use the COUTLINE= option in the action statement that generates the
chart.
Two-dimensional bar
charts created with the HBAR and VBAR statements can use the PATTERN
statement to fill specified bars with specified images.
For details, see the
option description for IMAGE= fileref | “external-file”. Other means of including images
in charts include adding background images to bar charts. The IBACK=
option specifies an image file that fills the entire area behind the
graph. The IFRAME= option specifies an image file that fills the
area within the axes of the graph.