How to choose a different background color for a chart label

[developer10214]

Hello,

I have pie chart and assigned a custom palette with 4 colors (red, green, orange and blue), only first fill color, no additional setting. This works well so far. I also want to display the according labels. This works also, but all the labels have the same background color as it corrensponding data point/segment. That I would like to change.
When I don't use any palette than each segement has its own color but the all the labels have white background.

Is there a way to change the background color of the labels?

[Ivan Petrov]

Hello,

Thank you for writing.

You can use the LableFormatting event of RadChartView to style lables. Here is an example which demonstrates how to make all labels with white back color:

private void radChartView1_LabelFormatting(object sender, ChartViewLabelFormattingEventArgs e)
{
  e.LabelElement.BackColor = Color.Red;
}

I hope this will help. Should you have further questions, I would be glad to help. 
 
Kind regards,
Ivan Petrov
the Telerik team

[developer10214]

Thank you for your answer. It works.
Is there a chance that the Appearance-Properties as they where in the RadChart will be available in RadChartView too?

[Ivan Petrov]

Hi,

Thank you for writing.

RadChartView elements can be accessed and styled like every other control. You can access a label element using the following code:

this.radChartView1.Series[0].Children[0].Children[0]

In this example the series element has a collection of child elements which are the individual data points elements. Each data point element has a child element which is the label element.
All elements in the chart view element hierarchy derive from UIChartElement. This is an element which has style properties and can be drawn within the chart control.

I hope this is useful. Feel free to write back, should you need further assistance or more information.
 
Kind regards,
Ivan Petrov
the Telerik team

[Gokul]

can anyone give a clarification to a problem in this link

http://www.telerik.com/forums/pie-chart-default-colours-so-similar#LidchSH-bUOZVpwvLZ1-oA

[Stefan]

Hi,

The link you have posted is from our UI for ASP.NET AJAX while the forum here concerns UI for WinForms. Please make sure you are posting in the proper forum to get answer. 
Regards,
Stefan
Telerik