As shown here , JCheckBox more flexible, but clicking directly on the chart may be more convenient. The following example adds a ChartMouseListener that makes the series invisible when you click on XYItemEntity in the series or LegendItemEntity . Of course, once a series is invisible, it cannot be pressed again; You will need a way to restore visibility. Among some alternatives, the first is illustrated below:
Restore the visibility of all series by clicking elsewhere on the chart.
Combine this with the approach above by switching JCheckBox in your implementation of chartMouseClicked() .
Run a loop in the button handler, restoring the visibility of each of them.
import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.EventQueue; import javax.swing.JFrame; import org.jfree.chart.ChartMouseEvent; import org.jfree.chart.ChartMouseListener; import org.jfree.chart.ChartPanel; import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart; import org.jfree.chart.axis.NumberAxis; import org.jfree.chart.entity.ChartEntity; import org.jfree.chart.entity.LegendItemEntity; import org.jfree.chart.entity.XYItemEntity; import org.jfree.chart.labels.StandardXYToolTipGenerator; import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation; import org.jfree.chart.plot.XYPlot; import org.jfree.chart.renderer.xy.XYLineAndShapeRenderer; import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeries; import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeriesCollection; public class VisibleTest { private void display() { JFrame f = new JFrame("Test"); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); XYSeriesCollection dataset = new XYSeriesCollection(); for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) { XYSeries series = new XYSeries("value" + i); for (double t = 0; t < 2 * Math.PI; t += 0.5) { series.add(t, Math.sin(t) + i); } dataset.addSeries(series); } NumberAxis xAxis = new NumberAxis("domain"); NumberAxis yAxis = new NumberAxis("range"); XYLineAndShapeRenderer renderer = new XYLineAndShapeRenderer(true, true); renderer.setBaseToolTipGenerator(new StandardXYToolTipGenerator()); XYPlot plot = new XYPlot(dataset, xAxis, yAxis, renderer); JFreeChart chart = new JFreeChart("Test", plot); ChartPanel chartPanel = new ChartPanel(chart) { @Override public Dimension getPreferredSize() { return new Dimension(640, 480); } }; chartPanel.addChartMouseListener(new ChartMouseListener() { @Override public void chartMouseClicked(ChartMouseEvent e) { ChartEntity ce = e.getEntity(); if (ce instanceof XYItemEntity) { XYItemEntity item = (XYItemEntity) ce; renderer.setSeriesVisible(item.getSeriesIndex(), false); } else if (ce instanceof LegendItemEntity) { LegendItemEntity item = (LegendItemEntity) ce; Comparable key = item.getSeriesKey(); renderer.setSeriesVisible(dataset.getSeriesIndex(key), false); } else { for (int i = 0; i < dataset.getSeriesCount(); i++) { renderer.setSeriesVisible(i, true); } } } @Override public void chartMouseMoved(ChartMouseEvent e) {} }); f.add(chartPanel); f.pack(); f.setLocationRelativeTo(null); f.setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new VisibleTest()::display); } }