Thursday, August 26, 2010

Text Layout Framework basics - Part 2

It's always better to explain stuff by showing a real-life example. The sample application we'll create in this part of the tutorial is actually a continuation of what we already did in Part 1, except:

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Custom ColumnChart Labels using a Custom Item Renderer

The Charting components are usually very flexible and fit most of your needs, but sometimes they fail in the simplest of things.

For example, the other day I needed a basic ColumnChart for a business application I was working on. The request was that instead of mouse-over Data-Tips, for each column a small label would appear with its value. Sounds simple enough, right?

At first for the ColumnSeries I set labelPosition to "inside",


and I got this:

DermaRoller