How can I print CustomGridLines behind OHLC series and sort legend items?

[User (Legacy)]

Hi,

I have two Chart FX for Winforms for VS .NET 2005 questions:

1. I currently print daily Open High Low Close bars for stocks like Google, 

and also print horizontal CustomGridLines on the same chart.  The problem is 

that the CustomGridLines always print on top of the Open High Low Close 

bars.  I would like to print the Custom Grid Lines behind the Open High Low 

Close bars.  How can I do this?

2. I like the way that the Text of my horizontal CustomGridLines prints 

nicely on the legend, but currently the order that the horizontal 

CustomGridLines are printed on the Legend is different than the order that 

the CustomGridLines are printed on the chart, from lowest price to high 

price.  How can I print the horinzontal CustomGridLines on the legend in the 

same order that they appear vertically on the chart (I want the highest 

priced CustomGridLines to print above the lowest priced CustomGridLines)?

Thanks in advance,

Brook Hunter

[Software FX]

> 1) ... I would like to print the Custom Grid Lines behind the Open High 

> Low Close bars.  How can I do this?

This one is easy:

customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;

> 2) ... How can I print the horinzontal CustomGridLines on the legend in 

> the same order that they appear vertically on the chart (I want the 

> highest priced CustomGridLines to print above the lowest priced 

> CustomGridLines)?

The easies way is to add them in the order in which you want them to display 

in the legend box. You can also sort them in the legend box using 

LegendBox.ItemAttributes but that would be more work. Simply add them to the 

chart so that the highest value is first in the list.

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for the help.

I was able to get the CustomGridLines to be displayed the 

Open-High-Low-Close bars, and the chart now looks better.

One problem I noticed, however, is that when I use the line

customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;,

the ToolTips no longer show up when the user puts the cursor over a 

CustomGridLine, even if the Custom Grid Line is not obscured but an 

Open-High-Low-Close bar.

1.  How can I get ToolTips to show up for CustomGridLines that are set to 

display behind all Open-High-Low-Close bars?

2. Is there any way to set a CustomAxisSection to display behind all 

CustomGridLines that have CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly set?  The problem is 

that when I set a BackColor of a CustomAxisSection, that all 

CustomGridLines, and their Text, is printed behind the BackColor of the 

CustomAxisSection.  The only solution I could find to this problem was to 

set the Alpha Channel of the CustomAxisSection BackColor to a very 

transparent value.

3. I was able to sort the items in the Legend as you described as well. 

Everything looks great when there is only one column worth of CustomGridLine 

values to display.  The problem is that when two columns of CustomGridLine 

values are displayed in the Legend, that sorting occurs like this:

1   2

3   4

5   6

7   8

9   10

I would like to sort these items from top to bottom first, like:

1   6

2   7

3   8

4   9

5   10

Is there any way to sort the values this way?  This kind of sorting would 

match most other multi-column sorting in most software that I have seen.

Thanks in advance once again!

Brook Hunter

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>> 1) ... I would like to print the Custom Grid Lines behind the Open High 

>> Low Close bars.  How can I do this?

>

> This one is easy:

>

> customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;

>

>> 2) ... How can I print the horinzontal CustomGridLines on the legend in 

>> the same order that they appear vertically on the chart (I want the 

>> highest priced CustomGridLines to print above the lowest priced 

>> CustomGridLines)?

>

> The easies way is to add them in the order in which you want them to 

> display in the legend box. You can also sort them in the legend box using 

> LegendBox.ItemAttributes but that would be more work. Simply add them to 

> the chart so that the highest value is first in the list.

>

> -- 

> Francisco Padron

> www.chartfx.com

>

[Software FX]

> 1.  How can I get ToolTips to show up for CustomGridLines that are set to 

> display behind all Open-High-Low-Close bars?

This is not supported.

> 2. Is there any way to set a CustomAxisSection to display behind all 

> CustomGridLines that have CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly set? ...

I think you are experiencing a bug that has been fixed. Please contact Tech. 

support for a Hotfix or wait for the next Service Pack

> 3. I was able to sort the items in the Legend as you described as well. 

> Everything looks great when there is only one column worth of 

> CustomGridLine ...

This is not supported. The only multi-column layout we provide is the one 

you see here:

1   2

3   4

5   6

7   8

9   10

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

>> 1) ... I would like to print the Custom Grid Lines behind the Open

>> High Low Close bars.  How can I do this?

>> 

> This one is easy:

> 

> customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;

Am I missing something??  I cannot find an ExtraStyle property on the CustomGridLine 

class...

I need to have the custom grid lines draw behind my bars and point labels 

and this seems to be what I need - Just can´t seem to find it....

Thanks -

Mark

[Software FX]

Is there. It may not show in the intellisense but it is there.

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

> Is there. It may not show in the intellisense but it is there.

> 

´ChartFX.WebForms.CustomGridLine´ does not contain a definition for ´ExtraStyles´

using v2.0.50727 of the ChartFX.WebForms assembly

[Software FX]

customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;

Is ExtraStyle not ExtraStyles !

-- 

Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

[User (Legacy)]

> customGridline.ExtraStyle |= CustomGridLineStyles.BackOnly;

> 

> Is ExtraStyle not ExtraStyles !

> 

Grrrr....   Thanks - works now....   ;-)