Webchart in asp.net

Question

Am working with webchart control in asp.net(http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/WebChart/) The X-axis labels are long(say 30 chars) and hence gets truncated. is there a better way of displaying them?

Thanks, Geetha

Answer 1

some of the charting components automatically change x-axis label orientation if there are many of them or some of them are long. You should also be programmatically able to set it. I had done this while using ChartFX charts.

Answer 2

What I have done is programatically change the bottom padding of the chart in order to change the height available to the strings on the x axis.

To change the truncation settings of the chart control using the ChartText.StringFormat property and instantiate it with the appropriate enum (you can turn truncation off). The Enums can be added to combine effects. instantiate a new StringFormat object and go from there.

If you are iterating over your data (like I am) you can add a line like

If strXVal.Length > 15 Then objEngine.BottomChartPadding = 150

that will programatically provide more room for your x-axis text.