Hey everyone,

I got a quick question. I am using a LineSeries chart at the moment and am supplying my own text labels for the xAxis ( xAxis.DimensionScale.AutoLabels = false;). I get my labels rendering just fine which is great. The issue I am having is that my labels are kinda long, so they tend to overwrite each other. 

How can I get them to display vertically with a bit of a tilt as is common in such situations? Having them display horizontally right now is not working very well. 

Thanks!

 

Any body has a solution to this ? I am running into this same issue .

 

Hi,

If you launch the Xceed Chart Explorer for .NET (located in "C:\Program Files\Xceed Components\Bin\.NET\Xceed Chart Explorer.exe" by default), and if you open the "Texts and Labels" chapter and if you click on "General", you will see that you can add a new label and give it the orientation you want.  You can then click on the C# Code (or VB.NET Code). 

private void UpdateLabelFromControls()
    {
      ChartLabel label = GetSelectedLabel();

      if (m_bUpdating)
        return;

      m_bUpdating = true;

      if (label != null)
      {
        EnableControls(true);

        label.HorizontalMargin = HorizontalMarginScrollBar.Value;
        label.VerticalMargin = VerticalMarginScrollBar.Value;
        label.TextProps.HorzAlign = (HorzAlign)HorizontalAlignComboBox.SelectedIndex;
        label.TextProps.VertAlign = (VertAlign)VerticalAlignComboBox.SelectedIndex;
        label.TextProps.Orientation = OrientationScrollBar.Value;
        label.TextProps.Backplane.Visible = HasBackplaneCheckBox.Checked;
        label.TextProps.Backplane.Style = (BackplaneStyle)ShapeComboBox.SelectedIndex;

        m_ChartControl.Refresh();
      }

      m_bUpdating = false;
    }

So the important, here, is label.TextProps.Orientation = OrientationScrollBar.Value;

Okay, this for a normal label.  If we are looking for the axes labels, then, still in the Xceed Chart Explorer for .NET,

go to All Examples -> Axes -> General -> Appearance and, from there, click on the "Axis Texts Properties" at the right. 

This is what is getting called :

    private void TextsFontButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
      if (m_Chart.Axis(StandardAxis.PrimaryY).Text.ShowEditor())
      {
        m_ChartControl.Refresh();
      }
    }

So if you set:

        m_Chart.Axis(StandardAxis.PrimaryY).Text.Orientation = 45.0f; 

you will be setting the Y axis text orientation 45 degrees counterclockwise.

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Ghislain
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Xceed Software Inc.
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