FIX: MSChart Legend Text Gets Truncated (176632)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 5.0
This article was previously published under Q176632

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 has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Basic 6.0.

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.
To work around the problem with this example, change the following line of code: 
   MSChart1.ColumnLabel = "Legend Text " & i

to: 
   MSChart1.Plot.SeriesCollection(i).LegendText = "Legend Text " & i
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/5/2003
Keywords:kbbug kbfix KB176632
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