Datatable cell to list & using string list in Legends

Ah, so the trick was to create just one LegendCell object and add all the list elements, inclusive of new lines, to that.

Previously, we were adding a new LegendCell object for each element of the list and it may be that you're stuck with a horizontal arrangement if you do that.

Good thinking :)

Got it Text has to be added first and then once all the text is inserted Cell has to be added

 egendItem firstItem = new LegendItem();

If inserting new lines 'manually' is not working, then there must be a property which controls whether the LegendCells are arranged horizontally or vertically.

I couldn't find anything in the docs for the LegendItem class, which is where I'd have expected it to be. However, the Legend class has a LegendStyle property which looks promising and I'd try setting this to LegendStyle.Column.

The Legend object to be used for this purpose is, of course, the one to whose CustomItems collection the current LegendItem is being added.

its not working its the same as before.
Instead of having a new line, it just added a space.

http://imgur.com/ZjPEhhb

If you mean one after the other vertically, I'd try:


 

yes works perfect the output  little bit of trimming remaining 

http://i.imgur.com/2lKnOGP.png


foreach(string s in list)
{
   LegendCell firstCell = new LegendCell(LegendCellType.Text, "Die_ID = _" + s, ContentAlignment.BottomCenter);
   firstCell.Font = f;
   firstItem.Cells.Add(firstCell);
}


How to print these strings one after the other also some string is printed out of chart area I used +"\n" +"\r\n" Environment.NewLine

Sorry again, that's just a typo. Should of course be:

  firstCell.Font = f;

Looking through the docs, I can't see another way to add the font. It seems you have to set each cell individually, though we're now using the same Font object for them all rather than creating a new object for each cell.

firstcell.Font = f; //The name 'firstcell' does not exist in the current context

is there any other way to add the font 




                LegendItem firstItem = new LegendItem();
                Font f = new Font("Georgia", 16);


foreach (string s in list)
{
    LegendCell firstCell = new LegendCell(LegendCellType.Text, "Die_ID = _" + s, ContentAlignment.BottomCenter);
    firstcell.Font = f;
    firstItem.Cells.Add(firstCell);
}


                Legend myLegend = new Legend("MainLegend");
                myLegend.CustomItems.Add(firstItem);
                chart1.Legends.Add(myLegend);

Sorry, I seem to have lost a bit of code when pasting that in from Notepad.

I've corrected it now :)

 LegendCell firstCell = new LegendCellType.Text, "Die_ID :" + s,
ContentAlignment.BottomCenter);



foreach(string s in list)
{
   LegendCell firstCell = new LegendCellType.Text, "Die_ID = _" + s, ContentAlignment.BottomCenter);
/* 
.Text -System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.LegendCellType.Text' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'
//Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, await, and new object expressions can be used as a statement*/'

I think only list will work fine.

I want to print this list/string array in legends (chart area), how to do that 


something like

LegendItem firstItem = new LegendItem();

LegendCell firstcell = new LegendCell(LegendCellType.Text, "Die_ID = "_//print the list_foreach (int i in list) {+i.ToString() }, ContentAlignment.BottomCenter);

firstcell.Font = new Font("Georgia", 16);

You should create array object using new keyword before using the array.