ChartDirector Margin

Bryan_Dodson · October 17, 2016, 1:52am

Does anyone know how to change the space between the y-axis and the left edge of the chart? When I have y-axis labels with more than 3 significant digits, there is no longer enough room for the y-axis title, and it is partially cropped.

KarenA · October 17, 2016, 2:19am

Chart.SetPlotArea

Christian_Schmitz · October 17, 2016, 6:16am

Thanks Karen

KarenA · October 17, 2016, 6:50pm

Better yet might be to use XYChart.packPlotArea

That should automatically give you enough space.

Karen

Bob_Keeney · October 17, 2016, 8:35pm

Ooohhh…I might have to try this on a few problem charts.

If I had one complaint about Chart Directory it’s that the plot area always seems to be a pain and hard to adjust. My second complaint is documentation. I’m sure I could come up with others as we tend to use it a lot.

Bryan_Dodson · October 17, 2016, 9:36pm

Thanks! I used the code below, and it works perfectly now.

call c.setPlotArea(65, 65, me.Width-100, me.Height-150, &hffffff, -1, &hc0c0c0, &hc0c0c0, -1)

The first 65 is the padding to the left side of the plot area, and the second 65 is the padding above the plot area.

Bryan_Dodson · October 17, 2016, 9:37pm

Does anyone have a XYchart.packPlotArea example? I cannot get past a syntax error.

Christian_Schmitz · October 17, 2016, 10:19pm

A couple examples have it:

https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.net/example-chartdirector-markbar.shtml

Here:

// Adjust the plot area size, such that the bounding box (inclusive of axes) is // 10 pixels from the left edge, just below the title, 15 pixels from the right // edge, and 10 pixels above the legend box. c.packPlotArea(10, title.getHeight, c.getWidth - 15, c.layoutLegend.getTopY - 10)