PRB: MSChart Legend Text Gets Truncated

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

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 is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.

2. Click Components on the Project menu, and check "Microsoft Chart Control."

3. Add an MSChart control to Form1.

4. Set the ShowLegend property of MSChart1 to True.

5. 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
   
   

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

   MSChart1.ColumnLabel = "Legend Text " & i

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