Additional Graph Settings dialog box
These tables list and describe the settings and options available in this dialog box.
Layout options
These options pertain to the Layout group.
Field/Option | Description |
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Type | This option sets
the relative position of the chart, title, and legend within a graph component.
For example, to position the graph on the left, the graph title on top, and the legend on the right, select Chart - Left / Title - Top / Legend - Right. To specify custom positions, sizes, and margins for the three objects, select Custom. You can then set layout values on the notebook tabs Chart, Title, and Legend. |
Width | This option
specifies the width of the current object (chart, title, or legend) as a
percentage of the width of the entire graph control container.
For example, to set the width of a chart as half the width of the container, specify the value 50 (50 percent of container width). If you enter the value 0, the object is not displayed. |
Height | This option
specifies the height of the current object (chart, title, or legend) as a
percentage of the height of the entire graph control container.
For example, to set the height of a chart as half the height of the container, specify the value 50 (50 percent of container height). If you enter the value 0, the object is not displayed. |
Left | This option specifies the distance from the left edge of the current object (chart, title, or legend) to the left edge of the graph control container as a percentage of the width of the container. |
Top | This option specifies the distance from the top edge of the current object (chart, title, or legend) to the top edge of the graph control container as a percentage of the height of the container. |
Anchor | This feature is not implemented. |
Top, Bottom, Left, Right (margin) | This option specifies margins around the current chart or legend in graphical units. In a chart that has axis titles, margin settings determine the distance between the chart and the titles. In a legend, margin settings determine the distance between legend items and the outside edges of the legend object. |
Graph Border Box | When selected, this option encloses the entire graph component container in a box border. |
Axis options
These options pertain to the X-axis.
Field/Option | Description |
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Max Points Displayed | This option specifies the maximum number of data points to render in the X-axis. The graph ranges from the current object index to the number defined in this field. |
No Labels | When selected, this option prevents the display of X-axis labels. Labels are not displayed, even if a property is selected in the Prop for X-Axis Labels field in the Specify Graph Settings dialog box. |
Title Position | This option
specifies whether the title for the X-axis is to display above the graph
(Top) or below it (Bottom).
The default is Bottom. |
Label Orientation | This option
specifies what orientation to use for the X-axis data labels:
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These options pertain to the Y-axis.
Field/Option | Description |
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Maximum | This option specifies the maximum possible value for the range of values measured along the Y-axis. |
Minimum | This option specifies the minimum possible value for the range of values measured along the Y-axis. |
Title Position | This option
specifies whether the title for the Y-axis is to display to the
Left of the graph or or to the
Right.
The default is Left. |
Title Orientation | This option
specifies what orientation to use for the title of the Y-axis:
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Auto Round/Truncate | When selected,
this option does two things:
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Levels | This button is enabled only if the Auto Round/Truncate option is selected. When enabled and clicked, it opens the Edit Divisors dialog box, which allows you to set the options to display the scale markers on the Y-axis. |
Legend options
These options pertain to the display of the legend.
Field/Option | Description |
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Border Box | When this option is selected, the legend is enclosed by a border. |
Horizontal | When this option is selected, legend items are arranged left-to-right, rather than in a vertical stack. |
Auto Text Color | When this option
is selected, the system uses your specified text color in the legend box.
When this option is cleared, the system uses the text (foreground) color of the base form. |
Position | This option sets the position of icons or boxes in legend items relative to the text in the items. |
Box Mode | This option sets
the style in which legend items display with graphical elements:
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Others options
These options pertain to miscellaneous other options.
Field/Option | Description |
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Fonts group:
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These options specify what fonts are to be used in the display of various elements of the graph. |
Reset to Default | To clear custom font specifications for the main title, labels, other titles, and legends, click this button. |
Runtime options
These options pertain to system behaviors associated with the graph.
Field/Option | Description |
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Lock Objects | When this option
is selected, users are prevented from moving and resizing of graph objects.
When this option is cleared, users can move and resize a graph, its title, and its legend as separate objects. |
Runtime Buttons
(Print/Copy/Save) |
When this option
is selected,
When this option is cleared, access to these buttons is disabled. |
,
, and
buttons are
enabled for the graph, when the mouse pointer hovers over the graph component.
Runtime Properties | When this option
is selected, the right-click menu command Chart Property Pages, which displays
configurable properties of a graph at run time is enabled.
When this option is cleared, that command is disabled. Note: You can define a standard right-click menu,
using the
Right-Click Menu
property on the Component property page.
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Mouse Hover Data Display | When this option
is selected, the actual value of a graph element displays as tooltip text when
the mouse hovers over the element on the graph.
To improve the formatting of the tooltip text, specify the data type properties for the graph element (for example, Underlying Type, Length, Decimal Point Position, and so on); or specify an existing component class that specifies the proper data type properties. |