Adding Custom Text to Chart

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Is it possible to add text to a chart which can be saved and printed?

I want to have a box e.g. in the right corner and then put there some informations related to the chart.
The chart should contain additional informations e.g. name of the part, date of the chart, location,...

My first thought was to use the ondrawchart-event, but the information added here could not be saved to the file :/ only chartdata is saved.
Using a backgroundpicture and put the text via textout works, but the text will be overriden by the graphic as it's the nature of a backgroundpic....

What's the right way to achive this?
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Hi, 


Printing is explained at the following tip:
http://tmssoftware.com/site/advchart.asp?s=faq&show=392
When the chart is printed, additional information can be drawn at the printer canvas.

Please note that this is only for the normal version of the chart.
For the GDI+ version, you will need to use a bitmap to print on the printer.
This is explained at the following page:

http://tmssoftware.com/site/advchart.asp?s=faq&show=439

Kind Regards, 
Pieter 
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Thx Pieter printing now works perfectly.

What about saving the pane?

I use ChartView.SaveToImage(... with GDI+

Kind Regards
-Robert
4

Hi, 


Does the SaveToImage produces an incorrect output?

Kind Regards, 
Pieter
5

Hi,


the chart displays correctly. SaveToImage does not contain my additional Info.
I worked around by using the print-function-way to a bitmap, add my infos to the bitmap and then convert the bitmap to the corresponding outputtype (png, jpeg, bmp,...) by hand.

There's no such feature like an overlay to put on the chart or a similar way to do this.

ChartView.addOverlayAt(destRect, overlayBmp, copyMode).

Kind Regards
 -Robert

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Hi, 


This feature is currently not included. You will need to save the chart to a bitmap, and then print the bitmap on the printer and add additional text to it.

Kind Regards, 
Pieter