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The attached chart is simply too crowded, in my opinion nobody would

understand it no matter where the labels are displayed. The way labels are

currently displayed is the most efficient in terms of space and clarity,

however, Pie chart were not designed to display a large number of points, I

honestly don't see a way of displaying such a Pie chart (with this many

points) can be displayed in a clean way.

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"Peter Collins" <newkleer@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message

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> Would it be too difficult to allow more data points/labels visible on a

> chart (with the legend disabled i think means the names of points are now

on

> the point labels, rather than just values)

>

> ive attached an example if its too hard to visualise.

>

> thanks in advance

>

>

>

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i agree mostly, it probabaly is better to have the labels layed out as they

are, but in this case we would want to be able to note the large slices of

the pie, and disregard all the smaller ones

would it be too difficult to say have an option to disable the names/pts

which take up less than say x% of the pie? this way the major slices (which

would normally by most important in this type of graph) would be labelled

but the whole graph wouldnt be cluttered

"SfxSupport" <support@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

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> The attached chart is simply too crowded, in my opinion nobody would

> understand it no matter where the labels are displayed. The way labels are

> currently displayed is the most efficient in terms of space and clarity,

> however, Pie chart were not designed to display a large number of points,

I

> honestly don't see a way of displaying such a Pie chart (with this many

> points) can be displayed in a clean way.

>

> --

> FP

> Software FX Support

> "Peter Collins" <newkleer@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message

> news:oDRMn00nCHA.3152@webserver1.softwarefx.com...

> > Would it be too difficult to allow more data points/labels visible on a

> > chart (with the legend disabled i think means the names of points are

now

> on

> > the point labels, rather than just values)

> >

> > ive attached an example if its too hard to visualise.

> >

> > thanks in advance

> >

> >

> >

>

>

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You can set PointLabels (true or false) individually for each slice using

chart.Point[i].PointLabels.

You can set this up based on the magnitude of the data or any other

condition.

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"Peter Collins" <newkleer@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message

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> i agree mostly, it probabaly is better to have the labels layed out as

they

> are, but in this case we would want to be able to note the large slices of

> the pie, and disregard all the smaller ones

>

> would it be too difficult to say have an option to disable the names/pts

> which take up less than say x% of the pie? this way the major slices

(which

> would normally by most important in this type of graph) would be labelled

> but the whole graph wouldnt be cluttered

>

> "SfxSupport" <support@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

> news:Z7Hk2Z4nCHA.3152@webserver1.softwarefx.com...

> > The attached chart is simply too crowded, in my opinion nobody would

> > understand it no matter where the labels are displayed. The way labels

are

> > currently displayed is the most efficient in terms of space and clarity,

> > however, Pie chart were not designed to display a large number of

points,

> I

> > honestly don't see a way of displaying such a Pie chart (with this many

> > points) can be displayed in a clean way.

> >

> > --

> > FP

> > Software FX Support

> > "Peter Collins" <newkleer@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message

> > news:oDRMn00nCHA.3152@webserver1.softwarefx.com...

> > > Would it be too difficult to allow more data points/labels visible on

a

> > > chart (with the legend disabled i think means the names of points are

> now

> > on

> > > the point labels, rather than just values)

> > >

> > > ive attached an example if its too hard to visualise.

> > >

> > > thanks in advance

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

>

>

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