Set Background color for 3D Chart

[James]

I need to know how to set the background color of the charting area of a 3D chart.  For the 2D chart I create a MarkedZone object and apply a solidcolorbrush as follows:

 MarkedZone bgZone = new MarkedZone();
 bgZone.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Aqua);
 this.radChart1.DefaultView.ChartArea.Annotations.Clear();
 this.radChart1.DefaultView.ChartArea.Annotations.Add(bgZone);

This does not work for the 3D chart!  How would I make this work for the 3D chart or is it even possible.

Thanks,

James

[James]

Please help with this!  I really need an answer to this soon.

[Petar Marchev]

Hello James,

Unfortunately the RadChart control does not support marked zones with 3D series and we are not planning on developing such a feature.

All the best,
Petar Marchev
the Telerik team

[James]

Petar,

Thanks for answering about the marked zones.  How would I go about setting the background for the 3D chart then?  That is really what I need to know.  The marked zone was just the way of making it happen with the 2D.

James

[James]

I really need to know if there is anyway to set a plot area background brush, both solid and linear gradient, for a 3D WPF RadChart.  The version that I am using is 2010.2.10.806.  I would really appreciate a member from the Telerik team letting me know an answer to this question.

Thanks,

James

[Petar Marchev]

Hi James,
 
Setting the background for the 3D RadChart can not be achieved with out-of-the-box means. However, below I have pasted some code that might be of help to you:

<UserControl.Resources>

    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush1" Color="Aquamarine"/>
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush2" Color="Aquamarine"/>
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush3" Color="Aquamarine"/>

    <telerik:MaterialsCollection x:Key="3DStripLinesStyle">
        <media3d:DiffuseMaterial Brush="{StaticResource StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush1}" />
        <media3d:DiffuseMaterial Brush="{StaticResource StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush2}" />
        <media3d:DiffuseMaterial Brush="{StaticResource StripLinesDiffuseMaterialBrush3}" />
    </telerik:MaterialsCollection>

</UserControl.Resources>

   
Place this in the resources and now the background of the chart should be Aquamarine color.
 
Greetings,
Petar Marchev
the Telerik team

[James]

Petar,
This is a WPF application.  Will that make any difference?  When I copied the xaml in the code and tried to find an appropriate namespace for media3 I could not find one.  I tried this in a silverlight application and found the namespace telerik.windows.controls.media.media3d.  Thanks for any help you can offer.

James

[Petar Marchev]

Hello James,

My apologies for overlooking that you inquired this about WPF. Indeed I tested the provided code on a Silverlight project, not a WPF one.

After some investigation, I am sorry to inform you that setting the background with 3D series in WPF cannot is not possible. I am sorry for the caused inconvenience. 

All the best,
Petar Marchev
the Telerik team

[James]

Petar,
Thanks for the reply.

James