How to use the same legend for multiple charts?

[Anders]

Hi telerik,

I wish to abuse the chart.
Since ChartLegend is a separate object referenced by the RadChart, I thought I could re-use the legend object to obtain a single legend for several RadCharts. This way I wanted to achieve the interactivity effects of hovering over graphs / legends and seeing the highlight in the other.

My starting point was four charts, where the first three were real plots (with hidden legend) where as the last was a RadChart with hidden ChartArea. That worked well, but with no interactivity.

If I create the ChartLegend object first and reference it from the remaining three RadCharts, I do get the legend headers in the ChartLegend, but still no interactivity.

Is this even possible? Or should I just 'accept' the separation and 'manually' handle the highlighting? Can you send me in a direction where I might get lucky?

Thanks,

Anders, Denmark

[Petar Marchev]

Hi,

Unfortunately automatic synchronization of hovering, in the scenario you described, is not possible. You can, however, achieve such a behavior manually. I have attached a sample project that demonstrates the approach and it can help you accomplish your task.

Hope this helps. 

Note: Attached is a Silverlight project but the approach and code is applicable for WPF.

Greetings,
Petar Marchev
the Telerik team