User (Legacy) Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hi The Legend Box toolbar button is disabled for bar graphs but available for pie charts. However if it is pressed whilst in pie chart mode then I switch the graph to be a bar chart, the legend box appears. Is this a bug and is there a workaround so the button is enabled whilst viewing a bar chart? Chris Bell -- Fancy a pint? Visit the Random Pub Finder http://www.randompubfinder.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software FX Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 This is because you don't have a series legend, only a Values legend. This toolbar button turn on/off the appropriate legend box based on the current chart type. This is by design. Normally the values legend is not useful in a bar chart unless you have set MultipleColors = true and your chart has only one series (which doesn't seem to be the case as in this case the toolbar button will behave differently). Can you please attach a screenshot of both the Bar and Pie charts and explain why do you want to see the values legend in a bar chart ? Notice the this toolbar button can easily be replaced with another command that will turn on the values legend regardless of the chart type. Here is how: chart1.ToolBarObj[17] = (int) CommandID.Legend; Note: 17 corresponds to the default position of the LegendBox button in the toolbar. If you have customized the toolbar, this number may be different. -- FP Software FX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User (Legacy) Posted December 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 Thanks chart1.ToolBarObj[17] = (int) CommandID.Legend; did the trick. The reason I want a value legend is because I don't have a huge amount of space and my value names can be pretty long so I prefer to have a number along the x-axis and a legend. One thing that follows on from this is that the legend is placed seemingly at random. Sometimes the legend has a lot of space to its right, other times the text is cut off because it is too far to the right and sometimes it's just right. Any ideas? Chris Bell -- Fancy a pint? Visit the Random Pub Finder http://www.randompubfinder.com "SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message news:K8sm5bl2EHA.1116@webserver3.softwarefx.com... > This is because you don't have a series legend, only a Values legend. This > toolbar button turn on/off the appropriate legend box based on the current > chart type. > > This is by design. > > Normally the values legend is not useful in a bar chart unless you have set > MultipleColors = true and your chart has only one series (which doesn't seem > to be the case as in this case the toolbar button will behave differently). > Can you please attach a screenshot of both the Bar and Pie charts and > explain why do you want to see the values legend in a bar chart ? > > Notice the this toolbar button can easily be replaced with another command > that will turn on the values legend regardless of the chart type. Here is > how: > > chart1.ToolBarObj[17] = (int) CommandID.Legend; > > Note: 17 corresponds to the default position of the LegendBox button in the > toolbar. If you have customized the toolbar, this number may be different. > > -- > FP > Software FX > > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software FX Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 Can you please attach some screenshots. I don't understand which space you are referring to. -- FP Software FX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User (Legacy) Posted December 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 Indeed, see the three attachments. OK.jpg is as I'd expect it, not OK.jpg and not OK2.jpg show the legend strangely positioned. Chris Bell -- Fancy a pint? Visit the Random Pub Finder http://www.randompubfinder.com "SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message news:cPR5xK62EHA.1120@webserver3.softwarefx.com... > Can you please attach some screenshots. I don't understand which space you > are referring to. > > -- > FP > Software FX > > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software FX Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I am unable to reproduce this problem. How do you make it happen ? What do you do different to get the three different behaviors ? -- FP Software FX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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