PointLabels on a line chart

[User (Legacy)]

When printing charts to a b/w printer its impossible to work out what legend

item corresponds with what series in a standard line chart. Pie charts allow

you to very simply attach a PointLabel which gives a caption for each pie

segment. If I try and attach the same to a line chart (ie

myChart.series(0).PointLabels = true) every data point is labelled. How can

I attach a single label for each series in my chart?

Thanks,

Stephen

[Software FX]

Labeling the series in the chart itself is not supported.

You could label the Last point of each series and use the PointLabelMask

property to display the series legend there. This, however, possess a lot of

problems with overlapping and label positioning.

So depending on your data this code may work for you:

chart1.PointLabelMask = "%s";

chart1.PointLabelAlign = LabelAlign.Left | LabelAlign.VCenter;

chart1.Point[chart1.NValues-1].PointLabels = true;

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FP

Software FX

[Software FX]

Also note that using different line styles and/or widths could help

differentiate series in a b/w printout.

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Regards,

JC

Software FX Support

"Stephen Miller" <chartfx@3la.com.au> wrote in message

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> When printing charts to a b/w printer its impossible to work out what

legend

> item corresponds with what series in a standard line chart. Pie charts

allow

> you to very simply attach a PointLabel which gives a caption for each pie

> segment. If I try and attach the same to a line chart (ie

> myChart.series(0).PointLabels = true) every data point is labelled. How

can

> I attach a single label for each series in my chart?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Stephen

>

>