Steema Central

We often want to display bar charts where the x-axis is represented as a non-numeric item. Also, bubble charts where we have the same non-numeric items along both axes and the intersecting points document frequency of pairings of items.

The results of our data analyses often get published in academic journals, and it would be really handy to be able to have the chart display the proper labels along the axes instead of numeric identifiers that don't relate to anything except how the charter wants to be fed its data. In fact, it would even be better if we could feed the data into the charter using symbolic labels and let the charter do the counting.

Last I checked, this is impossible with TeeChart (V5, anyway). Has anything changed in newer versions?

Thanks

Hi David,

you can show non numeric items on the Axis setting the Axis.LabelStyle to talText (in case you've defined a labels for the data added into the Chart) or set a custom text on each axis label using the OnGetAxisLabel event.
In TeeChart v6 and above you can also define custom axis labels with arbitrary interval.