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Set ChartArea data source

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AdaDog asked on 08 Mar 2010, 09:39 PM

Is there a way to add DataSeries to a ChartArea, which does not have a name?

I would like to create a custom layout for the ChartTitle, ChartArea, and ChartLegend in XAML but I only have access to the RadChart in code (not the ChartArea). I know I can get to the DefaultView ChartArea through the RadChart object. I could access the Content property of the RadChart and get the first ChartArea type, but that's not very elegant and is too dependent on the visual tree.

Any ideas?

    
            <telerikChart:RadChart   
        
                        x:Name="SeasonsChart"    
        
                        VerticalAlignment="Stretch"   
        
                        HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
        
                        UseDefaultLayout="False" 
        
                        Background="Transparent">  
        
                    <Grid> 
        
                        <Grid.RowDefinitions> 
        
                            <RowDefinition Height="50"/>  
        
                            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>  
        
                        </Grid.RowDefinitions> 
        
                        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        
                            <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>  
        
                            <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>  
        
                        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        
                        <Border x:Name="SeasonsImage" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" ></Border>  
        
                        <telerikCharting:ChartTitle 
        
                                                Margin="20, 0, 0, 0" 
        
                                                Padding="5,5,5,5" 
        
                                                Foreground="GhostWhite" 
        
                                                Grid.Row="0" 
        
                                                Grid.Column="0"                                      
        
                                                HorizontalAlignment="Left" 
        
                                                VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>  
        
                        <telerikCharting:ChartArea   
        
                                               LegendName="SeasonsLegend" 
        
                                               Background="{StaticResource springTransparentBrush}"   
        
                                               Padding="20, 20, 0, 30"   
        
                                               Grid.Row="1" 
        
                                               Grid.Column="0"/>  
        
                        <telerikCharting:ChartLegend   
        
                                                 Header="Temperatures"   
        
                                                 Visibility="Visible" 
        
                                                 Background="{StaticResource springTransparentBrush}" 
        
                                                 Grid.Column="1" 
        
                                                 Grid.Row="1" 
        
                                                 Padding="-10, 20, 20, 30"/>  
        
                        <input:RadComboBox x:Name="SeasonCombo"   
        
                                      SelectionChanged="SeasonCombo_SelectionChanged" 
        
                                      HorizontalAlignment="Right"   
        
                                      VerticalAlignment="Bottom" 
        
                                      Margin="0, 0, 20, 0" 
        
                                      Grid.Row="0" 
        
                                      Grid.Column="0" 
        
                                      MaxWidth="150" 
        
                                      MaxHeight="30" 
        
                                      telerik:StyleManager.Theme="{StaticResource QsfTheme}">  
        
                            <input:RadComboBoxItem Content="Spring"></input:RadComboBoxItem> 
        
                            <input:RadComboBoxItem Content="Summer"></input:RadComboBoxItem> 
        
                            <input:RadComboBoxItem Content="Autumn"></input:RadComboBoxItem> 
        
                            <input:RadComboBoxItem Content="Winter"></input:RadComboBoxItem> 
        
                        </input:RadComboBox> 
        
                    </Grid> 
        
                </telerikChart:RadChart>

3 Answers, 1 is accepted

answered on 11 Mar 2010, 11:21 AM

Hello Doug Simpson,

The reason RadChart provides the possibility to disable the default layout is to allow our customers to change the default view of the control and this might include scenarios with adding more than one ChartArea simultaneously into a single RadChart instance. That said you need to have Name set to the ChartArea object in order to populate it with data.

Sincerely yours,
Velin
the Telerik team

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