Legends Appearance

• Nov 28, 2022

This document describes how the legend’s appearance can be customized at design time.

With XtraCharts, it is possible to completely customize the legend’s appearance in a large variety of ways:

• To show or hide items’ markers within the legend, use the Legend.MarkerVisible property.
• To define the size of the legend markers (in pixels), use the LegendBase.MarkerSize property.
• Specify the appropriate Legend.MarkerMode property value to use checkboxes instead of markers or both.
• To control the visibility of the legend itself, use the LegendBase.Visibility property.

• The appearance of the legend text can be customized using the following set of properties: LegendBase.DXFont, LegendBase.EnableAntialiasing, and LegendBase.TextColor.

  

• The LegendBase.BackColor, LegendBase.BackImage and LegendBase.FillStyle properties determine the legend’s background appearance.

  

You can also customize the legend’s borders and shadow appearance.

• To access the legend border options, use the LegendBase.Border property. You can customize their appearance using the BorderBase.Color, BorderBase.Thickness and BorderBase.Visibility properties.

  

• To access the legend shadow options, use the LegendPageTab.Shadow property. You can customize its appearance using the Shadow.Color, Shadow.Size and Shadow.Visible properties.