ActiveReports 9 > ActiveReports User Guide > Concepts > Section Report Concepts > Section Report Toolbox > ChartControl > Chart Appearance > Chart Control Items > Chart Titles and Footers |
The Chart control allows you to add custom titles to your charts. The Titles collection is accessible from the Chart object. With the ability to add as many titles as needed, dock them to any side of a chart area, change all of the font properties, add borders and shadows, make the background look the way you want it, and change the location of the text, you can easily make your titles look the way you want them to look.
The following code demonstrates creating header and footer titles, setting their properties, and adding them to the titles collection at run time.
To write the code in Visual Basic.NET
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' create the header and footer titles Dim tHeader As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title Dim tFooter As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title ' set the properties for the header tHeader.Alignment = Chart.Alignment.Center tHeader.Backdrop = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Backdrop(System.Drawing.Color.Thistle) tHeader.Border = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Border(New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Line(System.Drawing.Color.DimGray), 3) tHeader.DockArea = Me.ChartControl1.ChartAreas(0) tHeader.Docking = Chart.DockType.Top tHeader.Font = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.FontInfo(System.Drawing.Color.White, New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 25.0F)) tHeader.Text = "Chart Title" tHeader.Visible = True ' set the properties for the footer tFooter.Alignment = Chart.Alignment.Center tFooter.Backdrop = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Backdrop(System.Drawing.Color.Thistle) tFooter.Border = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Border(New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Line(System.Drawing.Color.Indigo), 0, System.Drawing.Color.Black) tFooter.DockArea = Me.ChartControl1.ChartAreas(0) tFooter.Docking = Chart.DockType.Bottom tFooter.Font = New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.FontInfo(System.Drawing.Color.DimGray, New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12.0F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold)) tFooter.Text = "Chart Footer" tFooter.Visible = True ' add the header and footer titles to the titles collection Me.ChartControl1.Titles.AddRange(New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title() {tHeader, tFooter}) |
To write the code in C#
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// create the header and footer titles GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title tHeader = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title(); GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title tFooter = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title(); // set the properties for the header tHeader.Alignment = Chart.Alignment.Center; tHeader.Backdrop = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Backdrop(System.Drawing.Color.Thistle); tHeader.Border = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Border(new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Line(System.Drawing.Color.DimGray), 3); tHeader.DockArea = this.ChartControl1.ChartAreas[0]; tHeader.Docking = Chart.DockType.Top; tHeader.Font = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.FontInfo(System.Drawing.Color.White, new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 25F)); tHeader.Text = "Chart Title"; tHeader.Visible = true; // set the properties for the footer tFooter.Alignment = Chart.Alignment.Center; tFooter.Backdrop = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Backdrop(System.Drawing.Color.Thistle); tFooter.Border = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Border(new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Graphics.Line(System.Drawing.Color.Indigo), 0, System.Drawing.Color.Black); tFooter.DockArea = this.ChartControl1.ChartAreas[0]; tFooter.Docking = Chart.DockType.Bottom; tFooter.Font = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.FontInfo(System.Drawing.Color.DimGray, new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold)); tFooter.Text = "Chart Footer"; tFooter.Visible = true; // add the header and footer titles to the titles collection this.ChartControl1.Titles.AddRange(new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Chart.Title[] {tHeader,tFooter}); |