Chart Wizard Property Pages
The Advanced section of the Wizard consists of four property pages: General setup, Fill style, Font style, and Misc. The first three pages have a combo box that lets you select a component (from a list of components in the graph) for modification.
The General setup page lets you set the measurement mode, component rectangle, border style, and shadow style. Table 19 shows the additional options that can be modified for selected components. The best combination of chart and axis types for representing your data can be quickly determined.
|
Component type |
Additional features that can be modified |
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Background |
None |
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Title |
Chart title |
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Text Panel |
Body and title text, Title orientation, Use Title flag, Body resize flag |
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Display |
Data scope and Relative Index flag, Chart type and Axis type, Always show zero flag, flags to enable tick marks and grid lines, Use Max Size flag and Max Size (MaxObjectWidth) – sets max width of bars, bubbles, and vectors |
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Legend |
Legend style, Key style, Key size, Key first flag, RCLock flag and the number of rows and columns |
The Fill style page determines how the background of the selected component is filled. You can choose a solid color, a horizontal, vertical or angled vignette (a gradient of colors across the area), or a bitmap image. For vignettes, the starting (top) and ending (bottom) colors can be selected. Bitmap images can come from the project’s resources or a file on disk. Enter the resource name or file path in the provided edit box. The images can be in bitmap, DIB, or JPEG format.
The Font style page determines how text appears in the selected component.