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FIX: MSChart Legend Text Gets Truncated

Article ID: 176632

Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q176632

SYMPTOMS

When you change the ColumnLabel property of an MSChart control at run-time, the text in the legend appears truncated.

RESOLUTION

To work around this property, you can change the legend text at run-time by setting the LegendText property of the Series:

   MSChart1.Plot.SeriesCollection(1).LegendText = "My Legend Text"

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Basic 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.
Click Components on the Project menu, and check "Microsoft Chart Control."
Add an MSChart control to Form1.
Set the ShowLegend property of MSChart1 to True.

Add the following code to the Load event of Form1:

      Dim i as Integer
      For i = 1 To MSChart1.Plot.SeriesCollection.Count
         MSChart1.Column = i
         MSChart1.ColumnLabel = "Legend Text " & i
      Next

Press the F5 key to run the project. Note that the text in the legend is truncated.

To work around the problem with this example, change the following line of code:

   MSChart1.ColumnLabel = "Legend Text " & i

   MSChart1.Plot.SeriesCollection(i).LegendText = "Legend Text " & i

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