Why aren't line styles supported for user legends?

[User (Legacy)]

They should be. What is the point of having a user legend if you can't make 

it accurately reflect the chart?

Very frustrating.

[Software FX]

The line style IS used in the legend box, however, if you are displaying a 

marker, the space may not be enough to see the line style as the marker 

takes precedence, if there is a marker the marker is a better way of 

distinguishing series than the line style.

Do you have markers on ? Try setting MarkerShape = MarkerShape.None.

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Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:22:51 -0500, "SoftwareFX Support"

<noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote:

>The line style IS used in the legend box, however, if you are displaying a 

>marker, the space may not be enough to see the line style as the marker 

>takes precedence, if there is a marker the marker is a better way of 

>distinguishing series than the line style.

>

>Do you have markers on ? Try setting MarkerShape = MarkerShape.None.

I found a message on your support site stating that this is not

supported:

From: SoftwareFX Support

Subject: Re: How to set a UserLegend LineStyle

Date: 8/14/2003 1:31:15 PM

 Message 2 in thread 

From: SoftwareFX Support Date: 8/14/2003 1:31:15 PM 

Line styles are not supported in the user legend box, they are only

supported in the series legend box.

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FP

Software FX, Inc.

I don't understand why you wouldn't support it, since you just have to

change your pen style before you draw.

Here is my code:

        Dim StoreLineStyles As Drawing2D.DashStyle() =

{Drawing2D.DashStyle.Solid, Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dash,

Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dot}

        For Each s As Store In state.Stores

            Dim item As SoftwareFX.ChartFX.UserLegendBoxItem =

Chart.UserLegendBoxObj.Item(s.StoreID)

            item.Label = s.StoreName

            item.Color = Color.Black

            item.MarkerShape = SoftwareFX.ChartFX.MarkerShape.None

            item.Attributes.LineStyle = StoreLineStyles(s.StoreID)

            item.ShowLine = True

        Next

Enough of the line is showing that I would expect to see the dash and

dot styles.

David Beardsley

[Software FX]

My mistake. I didn't realize you were referring to User Legend Box Items.

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Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

So why not support this? I could make good use of this feature for my

current client.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:52:44 -0500, "SoftwareFX Support"

<noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote:

>My mistake. I didn't realize you were referring to User Legend Box Items.