Long Labels Problem

[wj]

Hi,

I am implementing a horizontal bar chart drawing out how many times different links are clicked.
The problem is that the labels are not aligned properly. They show up in 2 or 3 columns and alternate between them.
Let say I have bars with equal length and it shows up as such:

bar 2
bar    2
bar 2
bar    2

I have tried setting labelLocation to inside or outside and other settings as well but it did not work.

Another problem is that I want to set the yAxis steps(now horizontal) to integer values because it does not make sense to have decimal places. How do I adjust the steps to jump by exactly 1 instead of 0.2 without specifying the maxvalues, min values etc because I do not know these values.  I tried setting LabelSteps to 5 but it only solves the problem for this chart. Is there a better way to do it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

My entire code is as such:

namespace TelerikTest
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Chart Appearance
            chartControl.PlotArea.Appearance.Border.Visible = false;

            chartControl.IntelligentLabelsEnabled = true;
            chartControl.AutoTextWrap = true;
            chartControl.AutoLayout = true;
            chartControl.SeriesOrientation = Telerik.Charting.ChartSeriesOrientation.Horizontal;

            //Telerik bug: AutoScale will change xAxis Item label to 1.2.3.4.5....
            chartControl.PlotArea.XAxis.AutoScale = false;

            chartControl.Width = 800;
            chartControl.Legend.Visible = false;
            //chartControl.Legend.Appearance.Position.Auto = false;
            chartControl.PlotArea.Appearance.Position.AlignedPosition = Telerik.Charting.Styles.AlignedPositions.Top;

            Dictionary<string,int> items = new Dictionary<string,int>();
            items.Add("First",1);
            items.Add("Second",2);

            for (int i = 0; i < 40; i++)
            {
                items.Add("http://testing1testing2testing3testing4.com" + i, 1);
                int height = (int)chartControl.Height.Value;
                chartControl.Height = height + 15;

            }
            loadBar("",items);
        }

        protected void loadBar(string seriesName, Dictionary<string,int> segments)
        {
            ChartSeries s = new ChartSeries(seriesName, ChartSeriesType.Bar);
            int c = 0;
            foreach (string segmentName in segments.Keys)
            {
                int segmentValue = segments[segmentName];
                s.AddItem(segmentValue);
                s.Items[c].Name = segmentName;
                c++;
            }
            s.Appearance.LegendDisplayMode = ChartSeriesLegendDisplayMode.ItemLabels;
            s.DefaultLabelValue = "#Y";
            s.Appearance.LabelAppearance.Position.Auto = false;
            s.Appearance.LabelAppearance.LabelLocation = Telerik.Charting.Styles.StyleSeriesItemLabel.ItemLabelLocation.Auto;

            loadRadChart("chartTitle", s);
        }

        public void loadRadChart(string chartTitle, ChartSeries chartSeries)
        {
            chartControl.Clear();
            chartControl.PlotArea.XAxis.Clear();

            chartControl.ChartTitle.TextBlock.Text = chartTitle;

            chartControl.Series.Add(chartSeries);

            foreach (ChartSeriesItem item in chartSeries.Items)
            {
                if (item.YValue == 0.0) { item.Label.Visible = false; }
                chartControl.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem(item.Name);
            }
            chartControl.PlotArea.YAxis.LabelStep = 5;
        }

    }
}

[Velin]

Hi wj,

Please, remove the following line from your code. This should make your labels appear aligned to the right of the bars.

//RadChart1.IntelligentLabelsEnabled = true;

 
I'm afraid that you should configure all of the MaxValue, MinValue and Step properties in order to get the Y axis calculate the data range with the desired step.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Velin
the Telerik team

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