PieHint Class

Stores appearance settings of pie chart hints.

Namespace: DevExpress.XamarinForms.Charts

Assembly: DevExpress.XamarinForms.Charts.dll

Declaration

public class PieHint :
    HintBase

The following members return PieHint objects:

Remarks

A hint is a small pop-up rectangle that shows information about a tapped series or point. The pie chart displays its hints as tooltips. Pie Chart Tooltips

How to: Enable Hints in the Pie Chart

Create a new PieHint object and assign it to the PieChartView.Hint property.
Set the Enabled property to True.
Use the ShowMode property to specify a gesture on which the pie chart shows the hint.

XAML

<dxc:PieChartView>
  <!--...-->
  <dxc:PieChartView.Hint>
    <dxc:PieHint Enabled="True" ShowMode="OnTap" />
  </dxc:PieChartView.Hint>
</dxc:PieChartView>

How to: Customize the Hint Appearance

This example shows how to customize the appearance of pie chart hints. To do this, assign a PieHintStyle object with the specified properties to the PieHint.Style property:

XAML

<dxc:PieChartView>
    <dxc:PieChartView.Hint>
        <dxc:PieHint Enabled="True" ShowMode="OnTap">
            <dxc:PieHint.Style>
                <dxc:PieHintStyle BackgroundColor="#424651"
                                  MarkerSize="30"
                                  Padding="15,15,10,10"
                                  TextIndent="20"/>
            </dxc:PieHint.Style>
        </dxc:PieHint>
    </dxc:PieChartView.Hint>
</dxc:PieChartView>

Use the following properties of the PieHintStyle object to configure the hint appearance:

Property	Description
BackgroundColor	Gets or sets the hint label’s background color.
Padding	Gets or sets the hint’s label padding.
MarkerSize	Gets or sets the hint’s marker size.
TextIndent	Gets or sets the indent between a hint marker and text.