Create adjacent bar charts in Grapher via automation

To create a bar chart graph, add a second adjacent bar chart, and change some properties:

1. Click here to download the BAS file: Bar Chart-Adjacent.BAS
2. Click Automation | Scripts | Run, select the BAS file from your downloads directory, and click Open.

OR:

1. Copy the script below.
2. Open Grapher and turn on the Script Manager by clicking View | Display | Script Manager.
3. Press Ctrl+A to select all of the existing lines in the Script Manager and then press DELETE.
4. Press Ctrl+V to paste it into the Script Manager.
5. Click the Start/Resume icon () in the Script Manager. 

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Sub Main
'This script shows how to create two bar charts and make them adjacent to each other

'Declares objects
 Dim GrapherApp, Plot, Graph, BarChart1 As Object

'Creates an instance of the Grapher Application called "GrapherApp"
 Set GrapherApp = CreateObject("Grapher.Application")

'Makes Grapher Visible
 GrapherApp.Visible = True

'Creates a plot document in Grapher called "Plot"
 Set Plot = GrapherApp.Documents.Add(grfPlotDoc)

'Create a bar chart
Set Graph = Plot.Shapes.AddBarChartGraph(GrapherApp.Path+"\samples\bar chart orientations.dat",,,)

'Add a second bar chart to the graph
Graph.AddBarChart(GrapherApp.Path+"\samples\bar chart orientations.dat",,3,)

'Assign the first bar chart to the object name BarChart1
 Set BarChart1 = Graph.Plots.Item(1)

'Set the bars to use only rows 1-10
 BarChart1.AutoLastRow = False
 BarChart1.LastRow = 10

'Change the first bar chart to blue fill
 BarChart1.Fill.foreColor(grfColorNavyBlue)

 'Make the bar charts adjacent
 BarChart1.Stacked=False

 'Turns off the axes titles
 Graph.Axes.Item(1).title.text = ""
 Graph.Axes.Item(2).title.text = ""

'Sets a custom x axis maximum value
 Graph.Axes.Item(1).AutoMax = False
 Graph.Axes.Item(1).Max = 10.5

End Sub

Updated August 2019