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Style crosshair axis annotations

Hilma Tivegård posted over 3 years ago

Hi,

I have a crosshair layer with x- and y-axis annotations displayed. Is it possible to style these? More specific, I would like to display the x-axis annotation above my xamdatachart and the y-axis annotation on the side opposite to the y-axis itself to avoid to hide the values on the x- and y-axis.

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Hilma Maria

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Offline Bozhidara Pachilova posted over 3 years ago in reply to Hilma Tivegård +1 verified
Hello Hilma Maria, I have been looking into your question and, as already mentioned, changing the CrosshairLayer axis annotations is not available...view reply »

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Offline Bozhidara Pachilova posted over 3 years ago in reply to Hilma Tivegård

Hello Hilma Maria,

I have been looking into your question and, as already mentioned, changing the CrosshairLayer axis annotations is not available out of the box, since they are dynamically drawn paths on a canvas. Their position on the axes is by design and is uniform across other Infragistics products’ chart components as well.

What I can suggest is considering the Item Tooltip Layer in addition to the CrosshairLayer in order to avoid labels over the axes values. The Item Tooltip layer allows to define a tooltip template, where the XAxis and YAxis values can be shown, for instance. The tooltip will be displayed on hovering over the particular series. Please, find attached a small sample, where a XamDataChart using crosshair and item tooltip layers is demonstrated.

Sincerely,
Bozhidara Pachilova
Associate Software Developer

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Offline Hilma Tivegård posted over 3 years ago in reply to Bozhidara Pachilova

I see. I have another problem with the annotations - Since I have multiple line series, the curves sometimes intersect each other. When they do, and when they are close to each other, the y axis annotations can not be read sometimes because one value is on top of the other. Is there any way to solve this? See attached picture.

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Hilma Maria
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Offline Bozhidara Pachilova posted over 3 years ago in reply to Hilma Tivegård

Hello Hilma Maria,

Styling the CrosshairLayer AxisAnnotations and more specifically moving them would not be accomplishable neither through xaml styling, nor code-behind. Changing the position of the CrosshairLayer AxisAnnotations is considered to be a new product idea.

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Bozhidara Pachilova
Associate Software Developer
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Offline Hilma Tivegård posted over 3 years ago in reply to Bozhidara Pachilova

Hi Bozhidara,

I am aware of the properties you mentioned, is there any way to accomplish what I need through xaml styling?

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Hilma Maria
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Offline Bozhidara Pachilova posted over 3 years ago

Hello Hilma Maria,

After doing some research, I determined that while the CrosshairLayer provides some properties to style the XAxis and YAxis Annotation Labels, such as XAxisAnnotationBackgroundProperty, XAxisAnnotationTextColorProperty , etc. (please see this link for further reference), configuring their position is currently not provided out of the box. What I can suggest is submitting a new product idea. You can suggest new product ideas for future versions (or vote for existing ones) at http://ideas.infragistics.com.

There are many benefits to submitting a product idea:

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Thank you for contacting Infragistics.

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Bozhidara Pachilova
Infragistics
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