Narcís,

Okay, let me get this straight. No commercials AND Girona is only a stone's throw away???? That's it. I'M MOVING TO SPAIN! LEAVE THE FRONT PORCH LIGHT ON!!!

Thank you for the thread links, I'll read through them, pick out what I can...

Regards,
richard diamond

Narcís, Let me add to this. The appeal of setting Marks distance, rather than arrow length, is Mark distance has no impact on the pie chart's size (radius). It doesn't get bigger or smaller, just sits there, as the marks move closer or further from the chart's center. In contrast, values for ArrowLe...

Well hello, Narcís..:) Yes, thanks, that is the work-around I've been using for some time now: Chart1.GetASeries.Marks.ArrowLength := iArrowDistance so I'm glad to see I wasn't that far off the ... [wait for it, wait for it...] mark... HA! The issue there, obviously, is I'm unable to provide the eff...

Well heck... What am I doing wrong? With 3D pie charts (7.12), when I set a label's distance from the chart: Chart1.Series[ iChartNbr ].Marks.callout.distance := iArrowDistance often the label is clipped, as though the additional space taken up by the positioned label isn't being accounted for. I lo...

Follow up to this post... Based on the observation that an ascending or descending sort fixes the problem, in TeEngine's TChartValueList.Sort procedure I remmed out the loNone check: procedure TChartValueList.Sort; begin // if Order<>loNone then TeeSort(0,Count-1,CompareValueIndex,Owner.SwapValueInd...

Professor Narcís...;) (using D7 with TeeChart 7.12) ====================================== I am having a problem with exploded slices. I've been battling it for three days. Don Quixote had better luck with windmills than I am with this one.... It's exactly the same issue a user described in a post i...

Tony,

Did you ever get this resolved? I just posted an identical issue to the VCL / CLX group.

Was your <YourPieSeries>.YValues.Order set to loNone, and you were manually setting <YourPieSeries>.ExplodedSlice[] array?

Regards,
richard diamond

Narcís, Wow!!! Thanks for that link. I have been a follower of Dali even as I kid, when I saw his works at a Museum in New York City. A multi-talented, multi-faceted (and FUNNY as hell) genius, that man. I went back to the city for the first time in over thirty years, and what did I do? See Dali's e...

Narcis, I thought I'd give you (and anyone interested in this thread) an update. I tracked down the issue. Elevation. Don't set that property to a value less than 270. Ever. Trust me. LOL! I was allowing values in the range 0 to 360. While I guess theoretically that's the permissible range, values l...

Folks, (V7.12) I have a 3D pie chart with an exploded slice. If you look at the produced chart, there are "wings", little bits of the slices that extend past where they should, so that there are, in effect, excess overlapping lines for the slices. I'm wondering what I can do to make that effect go a...

Two questions having to do with Other: 1) In addition to the values that get automatically grouped into OtherSlice (for example by: with PieSeries do begin OtherSlice.Style:=poBelowPercent; OtherSlice.Value:=10; end; can I manually force a slice to be a part of the Other grouping, even if it's above...

Marc, In playing with your solution a bit more, here's what I came up with. procedure TForm1.Chart1BeforeDrawChart(Sender: TObject); begin if( ( Chart1.Legend.VertSpacing <> 0 ) and ( Chart1.Legend.Symbol.Squared ) ) then begin Chart1.Legend.Symbol.Squared := False; Chart1.Legend.Symbol.WidthUnits :...

Marc, Okay, thank you..:) That then leads to my original reason for asking. Does this suggest a system's screen resolution (96 or 120 dpi) will affect, say, the margin effect? Given the following: procedure SomeProcedure; var Meta : TMetaFile; begin // let's say when it comes in here, the chart's al...

Marc,

Thanks so much. It's brilliant and straightforward.

I apologize for not mentioning this. I'm using V7. I'm guessing the Items property is in, and new with, V8?

While your solution will be of value to V8 owners, how would I V7'ize this?

Thanks!
richard diamond