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karra
karra

Reputation: 378

MSChart axis moves depending on text size

Does anybody now how to prevent the Y-axis from moving (horizontally) when the text area increases (for example when displaying 100 instead of 1 on a label on the Y-axis).

The following image illustrates the problem; when a decimal is added to the number on the labels, the diagram is resized and the Y-axis is moved to the right: enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 280

Answers (1)

TaW
TaW

Reputation: 54433

The reason the Axis and other a few other ChartElements may move is that their Positions are set to Automatic by default; so when the lables need more space they get it and the inner portion is reduced.

So if you want to prevent that you need to set an explicit values for the X values of its Position.

Note that the values are in percent of the respective containers.

Unless you set a special Crossing value, the primary axes are always drawn to the left and bottom of the InnerPlotArea.

So you want to set the position, maybe like this:

ChartArea ca = chart1.ChartAreas[0];
ca.InnerPlotPosition.X = 10;

Note however, that this means: The Y-Axis will start at 10% of the whole ChartArea.Width, which usually means something like 'almost 10%' of the whole Chart.Width. (The Legend and some white space will usually take some space, too).

So if you resize your chart the axis may sit a little too much to the right.. You may want ot play with the number and maybe code an extra line in the Resize event of the Chart.

Upvotes: 1

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