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Francis Mariani
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Advanced Graph Assistant.

I'd like to make the space between the series narrower so I can fit my four series in one line.

There does not appear to be any point-and-click setting for this. Do I have to wade through that scary looking "graphics" manual?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Hi Francis, As far as I have seen, there's no setting for that. However, the legend is placed in an object, like a text box, which has the position and size properties. So, with that in mind, I placed it where I wanted it and resized the width so that everything fit on one line.

I hope this helps.
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Francis Mariani
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Doug, I don't see what you describe. I'm in Advanced Graph Assistant. On the left are the Chart type, Data selection and Chart editor tabs. On the bottom are the editable properties. On the top is a representation of the graph.

I don't see any method to move the legend using the GUI - in fact, there appears to be no interaction with the graph.

Meanwhile, I clicked on Help in Advanced Graph Assistant. Searched for "legend" - found several hits. Clicked on one of them. Instructions in this Help item include:

quote:

Create a chart.
Click the Format tab in the Control Panel.
Click Reference in the Features group.


What's the Control Panel? What's the Format tab? I don't see either of these two things.


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Francis,

Select Chart Editor, 6 folders appear(7.6.11, may be more with 7.7.x), 2nd is Series, Click on All Series, or, 3rd is Legend, Click on Labels, General or Markers. In the Quick Chart will be the properties to change...

Example

Not a very clear image, click it to enlarge...

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Francis Mariani
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Tom,

Thanks for your response. I have already found the Legend Properties, but I see nothing that allows me to change the width of the legend or to reduce the space between each element in the legend.

And I still haven't found the "Control Panel" that the documentation mentions.

Regards,


Francis


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Hi Francis,

Well, if you are constrained by the GUI, look in the Chart folder. What "we" do is, come out of the GUI and use the API's. Then, go back into the GUI and find them. Here's some actual code:
  
setRect(getLegendArea(),new Rectangle(2941,-9520,3266,10800));
setRect(getTitle(),new Rectangle(-10660,14020,19106,1800));
setRect(getO1TitleO(),new Rectangle(-10600,-14933,16469,2533));

But, I never go back in and try to find them; really don't care. Use the GUI for the basics, then add/chg/mod the API...

Tom


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Francis Mariani
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Tom,

Thanks for the sample code! I'll give that a try.

I imagine when Doug mentioned "I placed it where I wanted it and resized the width so that everything fit on one line" he meant using the code, not from some GUI interface...

Cheers,


Francis


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I think that the (Advanced) Graph code makes use of "Perspective for Java" for its styling. The documentation for that is far from brilliant, but it does help to figure out some of the things you can do with graphs in WebFOCUS.
I tend to use this link: http://www.threedgraphics.com/.../doc/perspective.htm
(Primarily the Methods section)


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Francis,

There are a couple of things you can try to in AGA to force the Legend to display horizontally.

1. In Chart Editor, Legend General menu, set property 'Legend Orientation' to Horizontal. Equivalent syntax is setLegendOrient(1);.

2. In the same menu, set property 'Legend markers per row' to 4 (since you have 4 series). Equivalent syntax is setLegendOrient(4);

On documentation, please refer to WF Graphics manual available here http://documentation.informati...7graph/wf77graph.pdf since it has the latest information. Anything posted on threedgraphics website is not up-to-date.
 
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Francis Mariani
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Thank you. But how do you make the space between the series narrower?


Francis


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Hi Francis,

Is it possible for you to show a visual example? That will help with understand the issue.

Cheers,

Kerry


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Dan Satchell
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Try experimenting with this method:
setLineStyleLegendMarkers(0/1/2/3);

It definitely affects spacing between legend text/markers when the legend is horizontal and the markers are not lines. So it might have an impact on vertical legends, too. Worth a try.


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Francis Mariani
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It looks like the space for the longest text is reserved for each legend label. Why would that be the default?

setLineStyleLegendMarkers doesn't seem to change this space.

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Hi Francis,

From our technicals: Unfortunately there is no way to do this at this time.
However, I would suggest instead of having all 4 legends in 1 row, to split them into 2 rows.
You can accomplish this in AGA:
Chart Editor -> Legend -> General -> Legend markers per row.
Change from default 0 to 2.
Or you can use the following API call:
setLegendMarkersPerRow(2);

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kerry


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Francis Mariani
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Kerry,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd rather not put the legend on two rows. I did find this option, which is a better solution for me:

Chart Editor -> Legend -> Markers -> Legend markers position above.

setLegendMarkerPosition(2);

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