Have you been able to straighten this out?

Not yet. even switching to an Annotation has its drawbacks. Seems like the anchor point for an Annotation is centerred vertically and horizontally.

i just want to add text in the bottom left corner that has the date and time and some text.

Is there an easier way?

Thanks

pat

Pat,

You could simply place a label over the chart in that lower left-hand corner and display the information that way, but if you really want to do this in the FillSceneGraph event you could do something like this:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

    UltraChart chart = new UltraChart();

    chart.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

    chart.ChartType = ChartType.Composite;

    ChartArea area = new ChartArea();

    chart.CompositeChart.ChartAreas.Add(area);

    AxisItem x = new AxisItem(chart, AxisNumber.X_Axis);

    x.DataType = AxisDataType.String;

    x.SetLabelAxisType = Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Layers.SetLabelAxisType.GroupBySeries;

    AxisItem y = new AxisItem(chart, AxisNumber.Y_Axis);

    y.DataType = AxisDataType.Numeric;

    area.Axes.Add(x);

    area.Axes.Add(y);

    NumericSeries series = new NumericSeries();

    series.Points.Add(new NumericDataPoint(1, "", false));

    series.Points.Add(new NumericDataPoint(2, "", false));

    series.Points.Add(new NumericDataPoint(3, "", false));

    chart.Series.Add(series);

    ChartLayerAppearance layer = new ChartLayerAppearance();

    layer.ChartArea = area;

    layer.AxisX = x;

    layer.AxisY = y;

    layer.ChartType = ChartType.ColumnChart;

    layer.Series.Add(series);

    chart.CompositeChart.ChartLayers.Add(layer);

    Controls.Add(chart);

    chart.FillSceneGraph += (o, args) =>

        {

            Text label = new Text();

            label.SetTextString("custom label");

            Size labelSize = Size.Ceiling(Platform.GetLabelSizePixels(label.GetTextString(), label.labelStyle));

            label.bounds = new Rectangle(5, chart.Height - labelSize.Height - 5, labelSize.Width, labelSize.Height);

            args.SceneGraph.Add(label);

        };

}

You will need a reference to the UltraWinChart and the following "using" statements:

using Infragistics.UltraChart;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Layers;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Resources.Appearance;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Shared;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Shared.Styles;

using Infragistics.Win;

using Infragistics.Win.UltraWinChart;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Primitives;

using Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Util;

Try that and let me know how it goes.

If you are talking about a standard .NET Label control, that would work only it won't print using

Private Sub tpPrintPreview_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tpPrintPreview.Click

Me.UltraPrintPreviewDialog1.Document = Me.UltraChart1.PrintDocument

If Me.UltraPrintPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then

Me.UltraPrintPreviewDialog1.Document.Print()

End If

End Sub

--------------------------------------------------------

Did you try your code above with the Print Preview or just Print. In my case the Text Primitive gets moved.

i am basically do whay you show about only in VB. See code below.

Within the FillSceneGraph event handler i have:

targetLabel = New Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Primitives.Text()

targetLabel.SetTextString(labelText)

targetLabelSize = Size.Ceiling(Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Util.Platform.GetLabelSizePixels(targetLabel.GetTextString(), targetLabel.labelStyle))

targetLabel.bounds = New Rectangle(5, UltraChart1.Height - targetLabelSize.Height - 5, targetLabelSize.Width, targetLabelSize.Height)

e.SceneGraph.Add(targetLabel)

End

Pat,

I will try your code and get back to you.

Pat,

OK, I tried it with the PrintPreviewDialog and I see what you mean.  I will show this to my developer and get back to you early in the week.

Pat,

I'm glad it works perfectly.  Let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks! Works perfectly.

Here is my VB.net version

Dim chartSize As Size

chartSize = UltraChart1.Size

Dim titleLayer As TitleLayer

titleLayer = e.ChartCore.GetTitleLayer()

If Not titleLayer.OuterBound.IsEmpty() Then

chartSize = titleLayer.OuterBound.Size

End If

Dim targetLabel As Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Primitives.Text

targetLabel = New Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Primitives.Text()

targetLabel.SetTextString(labelText)

Dim targetLabelSize As Size

targetLabelSize = Size.Ceiling(Infragistics.UltraChart.Core.Util.Platform.GetLabelSizePixels(targetLabel.GetTextString(),targetLabel.labelStyle))

targetLabel.bounds = New Rectangle(5, chartSize.Height - targetLabelSize.Height - 5, targetLabelSize.Width, targetLabelSize.Height)

e.SceneGraph.Add(targetLabel)

Pat,

The PrintPreview changes the size of the Chart o fit the page so we have to get the Chart's true bounds inside FillSceneGraph.  Try this code inside the FillSceneGraph event instead of the code I gave you before:

Size chartSize = chart.Size;

                TitleLayer titleLayer = args.ChartCore.GetTitleLayer();

                if (!titleLayer.OuterBound.IsEmpty)

                {

                    chartSize = titleLayer.OuterBound.Size;

                }

                Text label = new Text();

                label.SetTextString("Date with text");

                Size labelSize = Size.Ceiling(Platform.GetLabelSizePixels(label.GetTextString(), label.labelStyle));

                label.bounds = new Rectangle(5, chartSize.Height - labelSize.Height - 5, labelSize.Width, labelSize.Height);

                args.SceneGraph.Add(label);

I am attaching here a sample application which uses this code so you can see it in action.  Let me know if you have further questions.