Some useful settings

Let's look at some useful settings for controlling the chart's appearance. These settings can only be accessed through the object inspector of the chart editor.

These basic properties are available when 'Chart' is selected in the Chart Structure:

• Gradient: settings for gradient background fill. Enable the Gradient.Visible property to show gradients

• Legend: settings for the Legend List. The List can be hidden through the Legend.Visible property and its position set through the Legend.Alignment property.

The following properties are available when a series has been selected:

• ColorEachPoint: color each value with a different color

• ExplodeBiggest: outset the largest value (only works for pie charts)

• Marks: settings for the look of chart labels

• ValueFormat: the line for formatting values

Note that all charting capabilities are accessible in the "TeeChart Pro" library (which can be bought separately from www.teechart.com). This library contains many types of chart and inludes a convenient chart and series editor.