Legend Tab
Use the Legend tab to display and format a legend for your graph. The Legend tab includes the following controls:
Style Tab
Use the Style tab to set up and display a legend for your graph. The Style tab contains the following controls:
| Visible | Lets you show or hide the legend for your graph. |
| Inverted | Lets you draw legend items in the reverse direction. Legend strings are displayed starting at top for Left and Right Alignment and starting at left for Top and Bottom Legend orientations. |
| Check boxes | Activates/deactivates check boxes associated with each series in the Legend. When these boxes are unchecked in the legend, the associated series are invisible. |
| Font Series Color | Sets text in the legend to the same color as the graph element to which it applies. |
| Legend Style | Lets you select what appears in the legend. |
| Text Style | Lets you select how the text in the legend is aligned and what data it contains. |
| Vert. Spacing | Controls the space between rows in the legend. |
| Dividing Lines | Lets you use and define lines that separate columns in the legend. The Border Editor opens, see "Border Editor Dialog Box" . |
Position Tab
Use the Position tab to control the placement of the legend. The Position tab contains the following controls:
| Position | Lets you place the legend on the left, top, right, or bottom of the chart. |
| Resize Chart | Lets you resize your graph to accommodate the legend. If you do not select this check box, the graph and legend might overlap. |
| Margin | Lets you set the amount of space between the graph and the legend. |
| Position Offset % | Determines the vertical size of the Legend. Lower values place the Legend higher up in the display |
| Custom | Lets you use the Left and Top settings to control the placement of the legend. xxxx seems broken |
| Left/Top | Lets you enter a value for custom placement of the legend.xxxx seems broken |
Symbols Tab
Use the Symbols tab to add to the legend symbols that represent the series in the graph. The Symbols tab contains the following controls:
| Visible | Lets you display the series symbol next to the text in the legend. |
| Width | Lets you resize the symbol that displays in the legend. You must clear Squared to use this control. |
| Width Units | Lets you set the units that are used to size the width of the symbol. |
| Default border | Lets you use the default TeeChart format for the symbol. If you clear this check box, you can set a custom border using the Border button. |
| Border | Lets you set a custom border for the symbols. You must clear Default Border to use this option. The Border Editor opens, see "Border Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Position | Lets you put the symbol to the left or right of its text. |
| Continuous | Lets you attach or detach legend symbols. If you select this check box, the color rectangles of the different items are attached to each other with no vertical spacing. If you clear this check box, the legend symbols are drawn as separate rectangles. |
| Squared | Lets you override the width of the symbol, so you can make the symbol square shaped. |
Format Tab
Use the Format tab to set and format the box that contains the legend. The Format tab contains the following controls:
| Color | Lets you set a color for the fill of the legend’s box. The Color Editor opens, see "Color Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Frame | Lets you define the outline of the legend’s box. The Border Editor opens, see "Border Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Pattern | Lets you set a pattern for the fill of the legend’s box. The Hatch Brush Editor opens, see "Hatch Brush Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Round Frame | Lets you round the corners of the legend’s box. Select this check box to round the corners of the shape. |
| Transparent | Lets you set the fill of the legend’s box as transparent. If the shape is completely transparent, you cannot see it, so clear this check box if you cannot see a shape that you expect to see. |
| Transparency | Lets you set transparency for the legend’s box, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque. |
Text Tab
Use the Text tab to format the text used in the legend. The Text tab contains the following controls:
| Font | Lets you set the font properties for the text. This opens the Windows Font dialog box. |
| Color | Lets you select the color for the text. Double-click the colored square between Font and Fill to open the Color Editor dialog box (see "Color Editor Dialog Box" ). |
| Fill | Lets you set a pattern for the text. The Hatch Brush Editor opens, see "Hatch Brush Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Shadow | Lets you set a shadow for the text. Visible —Lets you display a shadow for the text. Select this check box to display the axis label shadow. Size —Lets you set the location of the shadow. Use larger numbers to offset the shadow by a large amount. Color —Lets you set a color for the shadow. You might set this to gray but can set it to any other color. The Color Editor opens. Pattern —Lets you set a pattern for the shadow. The Hatch Brush Editor opens. Transparency —Lets you set transparency for your shadow, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque. |
Gradient Tab
Use the Gradient tab to create a gradient color background for your legend. The Gradient tab contains the following controls:
| Format Tab | |
| Visible | Sets whether a gradient displays or not. Select this check box to display a gradient you have set up, clear this check box to hide the gradient. |
| Direction | Sets the direction of the gradient. Vertical causes the gradient to display from top to bottom, Horizontal displays a gradient from right to left, and Backward/Forward diagonal display gradients from the left and right bottom corners to the opposite corner. |
| Angle | Lets you customize the direction of the gradient beyond the Direction selections. |
| Colors Tab | |
| Start | Lets you set the starting color for your gradient. |
| Middle | Lets you select a middle color for your gradient. The Color Editor opens. Select the No Middle Color check box if you want a two-color gradient. |
| End | Lets you select the final color for your gradient. |
| Gamma Correction | Lets you control the brightness with which the background displays to your screen; select or clear this check box to change the brightness of the background on-screen. This does not affect printed output. |
| Transparency | Lets you set transparency for your gradient, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque. |
| Options Tab | |
| Sigma | Lets you use the options controls. Select this check box to use the controls in the Options tab. |
| Sigma Focus | Lets you set the location on the chart background of the gradient’s end color. |
| Sigma Scale | Lets you control how much of the gradient’s end color is used by the gradient background. |
Shadow Tab
Use the Shadow tab to create a shadow for the legend. The Shadow tab contains the following controls:
| Visible | Lets you display a shadow. Select this check box to display the shadow, clear this check box to turn off the shadow effect. |
| Size | Set the size of the shadow by increasing or decreasing the numbers for Horizontal and/or Vertical Size. |
| Color | Lets you set a color for the shadow. You might set this to gray but can set it to any other color. The Color Editor opens, see "Color Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Pattern | Lets you set a pattern for the shadow. The Hatch Brush Editor opens, see "Hatch Brush Editor Dialog Box" . |
| Transparency | Lets you set transparency for your shadow, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque. |
Bevels Tab
Use the Bevels tab to create a rounded effects for the legend. The Bevels tab contains the following controls:
| Bevel Outer | Lets you set a raised or lowered bevel effect, or no bevel effect, for the background for the selected title. |
| Color | Lets you set the color for the bevel effect that you use; inner and outer bevels can use different color values. |
| Bevel Inner | Lets you set a raised or lowered bevel effect, or no bevel effect, for the inside of the background for the selected title. |
| Size | Lets you set a thickness for the bevel effect that you use; inner and outer bevels use the same size value. |