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Hi:

When I try to set a series name as follows:

With TChart1(TChartIndex).Series(foo)
' remove previous existing points from the Series
.Clear
.Name = Blox(MyBID).ebLabel


I get a runtime error complaining that the contents of "eblabel" (a simple string) is "not a valid component name".

Isn't this the way to override the "series0, series1" names used by tchart by default? If not, how does one do this?

Thanks,

Matt

Hi Matt,

Yes, code below works fine for me here.
Which is the exact string you have in Blox(MyBID).ebLabel?

Thanks in advance.

Hi:

The string is: " Commodity X Amount"

The code is:

With TChart1(TChartIndex).Series(foo)
' remove previous existing points from the Series
.Clear
.Name = Blox(MyBID).ebLabel

' add new points to the Series...
For i = 0 To NumXNodes - 1
.Add XNodes(i).Value, XNodes(i).Name, clTeeColor
Next i

End With

Hi:

So setting the string to "foo" works. But using the string: " Commodity X Amount" does not. I tried removing the leading space to no avail.

Is there a length limit? It's a strange error message given I'm only trying to set a string.

Thanks,

Matt

Hi:

It appears that anything over 9 characters produces this strange error message: "<long name> is not a valid component name"

Hi again:

Sorry, I was wrong: it's any special character including space, I've discovered that & and / are also not allowed. I guess I'll restrict it to "A-Z and a-z".

-- Matt

Hi:

More information: the series names get reset also.

Please ignore the last message from me -- wrong topic.

My apologies.