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Hi,

I have a TChart (5.01) in which a variable amount of series can be placed.

I have a legend at the bottom, and have set the Legend.ResizeChart to true, and some margin (like 4%) to bottom.

Sometimes the legend is nicely spread out like;

--
Series 1 Series 2 Series 3
Series 4
--

But sometimes the legend refuses to do this, but it stacks the legend like;

--
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
---

Is there a property that prevents stacking it like this ? I have 7 series max, and would like to have them ordered 3 on a row max, or else the chart gets drastically resized.

Thanks in advance,
- Jorgen

Hi Jorgen,

you could try using :
Chart1.Legend.MaxNumRows := 3;
This will allow to show 3 Rows as maximum.

Thanks Pep!

But would that not just constrain the number of items on the row to max 3? Right now it does not even reach 3, it sticks to 1 item per row and stacks them under each other, when there is no real need for it.

Thanks again,
- Jorgen

Hi Jorgen,

There's no way of doing it directly, la best way is creating a custom legend with the canvas using Annotation tool for example.

Ok Guys,

Here's the kicker! The problem was that I displayed one extra series in my legend which was containing a strange symbol (e.g. with a circle in it) all other line series that are normal series. Whenever I remove that one from the legend, the series display 3x? rows. Thanks a lot for all the help, it appeared some weird artefact in TChart.


- Jorgen