ScaleBreakOptions.Style Property

Gets or sets an appearance of scale break edges.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Charts

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Charts.v19.1.dll

Declaration

C#

public ScaleBreakStyle Style { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property Style As ScaleBreakStyle

Property Value

Type	Description
ScaleBreakStyle	The scale break edge style.

Available values:

Name	Description
Straight	The straight style of scale break edges.
Ragged	The ragged style of scale break edges.
Waved	The wavy style of scale breaks edges.

Property Paths

You can access this nested property as listed below:

Object Type	Path to Style
Axis2D	.ScaleBreakOptions.Style
AxisX2D	.ScaleBreakOptions.Style
AxisY2D	.ScaleBreakOptions.Style
SecondaryAxisX2D	.ScaleBreakOptions.Style
SecondaryAxisY2D	.ScaleBreakOptions.Style

Remarks

Use the ScaleBreakStyle enumeration values to specify the Style property. The following table lists all the possible values.

Value	Image
ScaleBreakStyle.Ragged
ScaleBreakStyle.Straight
ScaleBreakStyle.Waved

Example

This example shows how to customize the scale break appearance.

To do this, use the following ScaleBreakOptions class properties:

• The ScaleBreakOptions.SizeInPixels property specifies distance between a scale break’s edges.
• The ScaleBreakOptions.Style property defines the appearance of the scale break edges.
• The ScaleBreakOptions.Brush property sets the a scale break edge color.
• The ScaleBreakOptions.LineStyle property specifies parameters of a line that is used to draw scale break edges.

Note that ScaleBreakOptions define the appearance of both manual and automatic scale breaks.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-manually-insert-scale-breaks-into-an-axis-t553953.

MainWindow.xaml

<dxc:AxisY2D.ScaleBreakOptions>
    <dxc:ScaleBreakOptions SizeInPixels="15" 
                           Style="Waved" 
                           Brush="Gray">
        <dxc:ScaleBreakOptions.LineStyle>
            <dxc:LineStyle Thickness="2"/>
        </dxc:ScaleBreakOptions.LineStyle>
    </dxc:ScaleBreakOptions>
</dxc:AxisY2D.ScaleBreakOptions>

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

how-to-manually-insert-scale-breaks-into-an-axis-t553953/VB/ScaleBreaks/MainWindow.xaml#L38

<dxc:ScaleBreakOptions SizeInPixels="15"
                       Style="Waved"
                       Brush="Gray">