How to format the series tooltip on a pie chart

[User (Legacy)]

How do I format the popup tooltip that appears when the user hovers over a

pie sector. If you search the Samples & Resource Centre for PointLabelMask,

the sample chart has nicely formatted flyout point labels, but if you mouse

over a pie sector the popup looks like:

  Series name

  Legend Text

  Value out of Total

  (Percentage)

I would like to limit the popup to the Legend Text only. I've tried looping

through the dataset and setting the Series Tag property, with no effect. ie:

Dim intIdx as Long

With myChart

  For Each myRow In myDataSet.Tables("myData").Rows

  intIdx += 1

 .Legend(intIdx) += " (" & String.Format("{0:###.0}", .Value(0, intIdx) *

100) & "%)"

 .Series(intIdx).Tag = .Legend(intIdx)

Next

Ideally I would like this to work even when PointLabels are set to False

Also, I want to add a general tooltip description to my chart. I have set

ShowTips="True" and assigned Tooltip="This pie chart shows some data", but I

can't seem to get Tooltip to appear when the mouse is over the chart. Is

this possible?

Thanks,

Stephen

[Software FX]

The TipMask property does this for you.

It works like PointLabelMask but this one is used for the tooltip.

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FP

Software FX

[User (Legacy)]

Thanks, that's great.

What about if you want percentage to 1 decimal points (it seems to default

to 2 decimal points)?

"SoftwareFX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

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> The TipMask property does this for you.

>

> It works like PointLabelMask but this one is used for the tooltip.

>

> -- 

> FP

> Software FX

>

>

[Software FX]

This is controlled through the YAxis.

chart.AxisY.DataFormat.Decimals = 0;

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FP

Software FX