Chart Legend

Chart control supports 2 legend types: simple (built-in) or advanced (external)

Legend formatting includes the following customizable elements:

• Legend Position and Visibility
  • Hidden Legend
  • A Legend takes left, right, top, top-right and bottom positions
  • A Legend can overlap the plot area, or take place outside of the plot area
  • Custom legend position
• Legend appearance, which includes outline and fill colors, border width and stroke style, text color, font family and size for legend entries.
• The text appearance for each legend entry can be formatted separately.

A Legend can display individual Data Point values:

• A series can specify what content should be included into legend entry (it's series-wide option)
• It's possible to specify a custom string to be displayed in the legend entry for each Data Point.

The advanced chart legend has the following features:

• Ability to show legend entries from multiple charts.
• Custom entries support.
• Custom legend title.
• Custom legend cell format (including colors and text label formats).
• Custom columns.
• Vertical and horizontal layouts.
• Automatic scrolling.
• Print and print preview support.
• Mouse events support allows to create an interactive legend entries (such as buttons or checkboxes).
• Ability to show the legend in any window such as Visual Container, docking pane or any others.

Simple Chart Legend:

Advanced Chart Legend:

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