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• If I set an axis title to " " and immediately ask what is the title it returns an empty string. Sorry, " " != "". This causes a big problem in our system since setting it to a blank (but not empty) value is a trigger to use our custom drawing code, and now it simply does not work! In general I do not understand why you are changing value which user provided for a property? If I need it to be trimmed, I will do it myself, but there are tons of reasons why I'd like to add spaces before or after the text and you should not break it for me.
• If I set any wall (except for the back wall, which works) to use an image to fill background (which was working OK in previous build) - now only sides of the wall are respecting my selection, the face becomes clear fill.
• You have reported a while ago that bar graphs with stack option set to side all works... Well, you did fix the series marks (they appear to work now). But the axis labels are totally broken. Just create 4-5 bar series, set them to SideAll and watch the labels (they are sometimes showing up under every other series, while sometimes just in random places).
• Most of my graphs with multiple series (but not all. So far I cannot tell what is the difference) have very strange legends. All of them are set to show series titles or automatic (which would be the same in this case). In the legend I have only first item to show up with the name. All other items have only symbols but nothing next to them (does it make any sense?)
• You said that legend dividers are fixes. While they are working much better, on horizontal legend we still have a divider line before the first column, but now it starts from the second line... It looks really strange and sloppy.

* If I set an axis title to " " and immediately ask what is the title it returns an empty string. Sorry, " " != "". This causes a big problem in our system since setting it to a blank (but not empty) value is a trigger to use our custom drawing code, and now it simply does not work! In general I do not understand why you are changing value which user provided for a property? If I need it to be trimmed, I will do it myself, but there are tons of reasons why I'd like to add spaces before or after the text and you should not break it for me.

* If I set any wall (except for the back wall, which works) to use an image to fill background (which was working OK in previous build) - now only sides of the wall are respecting my selection, the face becomes clear fill.

* You have reported a while ago that bar graphs with stack option set to side all works... Well, you did fix the series marks (they appear to work now). But the axis labels are totally broken. Just create 4-5 bar series, set them to SideAll and watch the labels (they are sometimes showing up under every other series, while sometimes just in random places).

      for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
      {
        Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar bar1 = new Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar(tChart1.Chart);
        bar1.FillSampleValues();
        bar1.MultiBar = Steema.TeeChart.Styles.MultiBars.SideAll;
      }

* Most of my graphs with multiple series (but not all. So far I cannot tell what is the difference) have very strange legends. All of them are set to show series titles or automatic (which would be the same in this case). In the legend I have only first item to show up with the name. All other items have only symbols but nothing next to them (does it make any sense?)

* You said that legend dividers are fixes. While they are working much better, on horizontal legend we still have a divider line before the first column, but now it starts from the second line... It looks really strange and sloppy.

      tChart1.Legend.Alignment = Steema.TeeChart.LegendAlignments.Bottom;

One side comment. Even though I do not develop TChart, but just to be able to use it and move from one release to another, currently I am running around 5500 automated tests, exercising only basic functions of TChart. You guys should be doing it, not me. This way, if anything is fixed once you will never break it again (or will know about breakage within minutes) and if you say it is fixed, you'll have proof that in fact it is.

In fact, legend drawing is totally broken. I have a graph with one series and the legend is set up to show values. Well, the first item in the legend is showing the item name, not the first value. Then I am trying to change the text style to display value and percent or X value and value... Good luck to those who can do it, I cannot get it work at all. And no, I am not using the chart editor, I am setting up all the properties programmatically (may be there is a new property I need to set, or existing one changed its default value?)

      Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar bar1 = new Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar(tChart1.Chart);
      bar1.FillSampleValues();

      tChart1.Legend.TextStyle = Steema.TeeChart.LegendTextStyles.XAndPercent;
      //tChart1.Legend.TextStyle = Steema.TeeChart.LegendTextStyles.XAndValue;

In order to see the problem with Bars set to Side All you'll need to set bottom axis to show labels (you told me that this is the system's limitation and numbers or dates will not work at all).

In your example the bottom axis labels do not make any sense, so I am not sure why you even included it.

As to divider on legend, I am not sure how this works for you. Here what I am getting when I put my legend to the bottom (notice that they do not go too far down as they used to, but now they do not start at the top either):

      for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++)
      {
        Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar bar1 = new Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Bar(tChart1.Chart);
        bar1.MultiBar = Steema.TeeChart.Styles.MultiBars.SideAll;
        bar1.FillSampleValues();
      }

      tChart1.Legend.Alignment = Steema.TeeChart.LegendAlignments.Bottom;
      tChart1.Legend.DividingLines.Visible = true;
      tChart1.Legend.Pen.Visible = false;

Modifying this could be a problem, as it could mean that clients see headers and anything that derives from TextShape (series marks, annotations etc. etc.) with spaces in the text where before there weren't any.