Can Customize the Appearance of the Chart’s Background In the 2006 Volume 3 release, you can now change the appearance of the background layer of the WinChart™ control without affecting the other layers of the chart (e.g., border, title, grid, chart, etc.). Using the new properties, Axis.PE (for non-composite char...
Composite Chart A new ChartType has been added to Chart that allows the composition of existing charts to make new charts. Along with this new chart type, several changes were made to allow for this functionality. New collections have been added to the Chart: A Series collection can contain multiple Series of data...
Create Multi-Line Chart Labels In certain cases you may want to display chart labels over multiple lines. This topic shows how series labels and item label are displayed in separate lines using the FormatString property. It is assumed that an ultraChart bound to a data source is dropped onto your form. For informa...
Custom Layers Can Be Added to Composite Charts The 2006 Volume 2 release exposes its layering architecture (in which each layer is pressed on top of each other into a final chart) to Composite charts. In addition to standard (non-composite charts), you now have the power and flexibility to add and remove custom ch...
Customization of Charts on a Per-Series Basis To make your line charts and area charts even more representative and informative, we have provided new settings that you can enable separately for each series of your chart. These settings can be applied to the following types of 2D line and spline charts: Area Stacke...
Default Preset Available for New Charts Starting in the 2006 Volume 2 release, when you drag a Chart to your form, a default preset is automatically loaded for the chart. This preset applies the optimum property values to the chart (e.g., smart Tickmarks, gradient effect, and automatic layout algorithm), so that y...
Easier to Hide and Display Chart Series In the 2006 Volume 3 release, we’ve improved the WinChart™ control to make it easy for you to hide or display a series in a Composite or non-composite chart. Previously, to show or hide a series, you needed to add/remove the series from the Series collection. In 2006 Volume ...
Extended the Swap Rows and Columns Feature Until now, the ability to swap row and column data (i.e., rows of a data table becoming columns, and columns of the data table becoming rows) was available only to charts bound to a data table via the default data binding mechanism. Starting in the 2006 Volume 2 release, ...
Improved Logic of Date/Time Intervals If your chart plots date/time data on a time-scale axis, you can generate the following types of date/time intervals: Percentage intervals — A line Tickmark is shown every n % along the X-axis from the start date to the end date. Numeric intervals – A number of lines or Tickma...
More Chart Title Formatting Available The 2006 Volume 2 release now offers you more flexibility in how you can format your chart titles. New properties allow you to: change the direction of the chart title (i.e., horizontal or vertical) reverse the text of the horizontal or vertical chart title change the angle of...