Steema Central

• TF02013936 - Labels on the bottom axis - presumably fixed in the next release. I expect it to work for any graph (not just bar graphs) and respect all the axis settings, including the logarithmic flag (currently badly broken).
• TF02013715, TF02013851 - I am not sure, which of the problems with areas these are representing, but in general - area series are totally broken! And in 2 occasions here I had implemented a work around for a problem, which would stop working with the very next release. So, I fill like a cat, chasing its tail.
• TF02013207 - Tag property for series (and other objects). It is useless until it is serialized.
• TF02013794 - Mark arrow color is controlled by the Mark.Symbol.Shadow.Color. Should it???
• TF02013790 - This is big one for us: generating a chart in memory and then including an emf build from it into a PDF report - quality of the image is poor.
• TF02013756 - Round shape and shadow - this time get them all, please!
• TF02013748 - This one, I believe, is about patterns editor and image page inside it - very broken!
• TF02013713 - Series.Assign (chart is in-memory) throws exceptions.
• TF02013851 - Chart series editor for bars.
• TF02013698 - serializing horizontal bar series - resets gradient direction.
• TF02013693 - creating metafiles from a chart, kept in memory, produces very poor quality and plain and simple is wrong (try pie chart!)
• TF02013689 - serializing pie charts - missing explode values.
• TF02013684 - serializing horizontal bar series - missing marks.visible.
• TF02013685 - horizontal series -> marks-> X and Y values do not work.
• TF02013429 - Chart gallery buttons.
• TF02013536 - Series Marks: Do not even try to rotate them! Symbols (if shown) are staying put anyway. The text is rotating with the shape, but not together - they are separated and text is drawn outside of the frame. Shadow is lost and so is the round frame. Bevels also do not rotate.
• TF02013533 - Line Series: If I touch outline property (make it visible and then turn it off later) border stops working and by playing with this property more, I was able to make the whole line series disappear from the chart - even though it was still shown in the legend and had values.
• TF02013758 - Images on brushes for series and walls have multiple problems.

• marks, overlapping. It makes it very hard to use marks, if you happen to have more than just a few points. At least for one given series marks should be smart enough to not overlap each other and graph should adjust accordingly. And all this logic should not live in the drawing events, since graphs are sometimes created on the background and are never actually drawn on a canvas - it still should work.
• captions on various pop-up editors - make them understandable for the general public, not only for the select people who happen to be programmers.
• color dialogs. Here 2 issues: first, make them standard with the OS-generated color dialog. Second, need a way to communicate back and forth about user-defined custom colors.
• all pop-up dialogs - they do not need to add a separate taskbar icon. Also, if they display an icon - it should be my app's icon or none!
• pattern editor. Starting with the misleading name on the buttons, which bring the one (not to mention it's cryptic caption) - this guy has too many bags and needs to be cleaned up .
• multi-line titles and vertical legends. Also, when legend is on your right or left titles and footers are mis-aligned (all options: right, left and center - pretend there is no legend).
• for some reason the same font in Win32 and .NET look different and in .NET version is taking more space, breaking existing reports.
• changing type of existing series. The specific settings of an old type are not cleared as well as any settings which do not apply for the new type (and should not matter, but sure enough, break it).
• Bevels in Titles and Legend do not work. Editor resets bevel width on Panel and Marks just by flipping tabs.
• need a way to hide pages on the chart series editor, so the general page and data page will not be there (our business rules are controlling all the settings there). The marks page either needs some serious work (4 lines of tabs is just not acceptable!) or I need a way to hide it as well.

You've reported TF02013936 as fixed. Well, we have different opinions on the meaning of the word "fixed" obviously, since it is not working anyway! First, labels are not hiding now... ever. They will run onto each other, which is as bad as unpredictable hiding, which you had before.

		public Form1()
		{
			InitializeComponent();
			InitializeChart();
		}

		private void InitializeChart()
		{
			tChart1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

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

			Random y = new Random();

			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "a");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "b");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "c");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "d");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "e");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "f");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "g");
			bar1.Add(y.Next(), "h");
		}

Also, if I happen to have logarithmic bottom axis - the labels are set randomly (I cannot come up with any logical explanation on how). I tried to control them by setting up Increment property (which I expect to work) but the results were scary. So, let's say I have 320 consecutive points on my line graph. The bottom axis is logarithmic with base of 10. If Increment is 0 - the labels are 1, 10, and 100. Ok, if I change it to be 1 (or 0.1, or 0.01 - it treats them the same?!!) - the labels are 100, 200, 300. Increment of 2 gets only one label - 200, but 3 gets a bunch of labels - 30, 60, 90, 120 and so on (many of which are not readable, since at some point they begin to run onto each other and at the end of the axis I just have this black blob... Any logic behind this mess?

		public Form1()
		{
			InitializeComponent();
			InitializeChart();
		}

		private void InitializeChart()
		{
			tChart1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
			tChart1.Legend.Visible = false;

			Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Line line1 = new Steema.TeeChart.Styles.Line(tChart1.Chart);

			Random y = new Random();

			for (int i = 0; i < 320; i++)
			{
				line1.Add(y.Next());
			}

			tChart1.Axes.Bottom.Logarithmic = true;
			tChart1.Axes.Bottom.LogarithmicBase = 10;
			tChart1.Axes.Bottom.Increment = 3;
		}

By the way, when I was setting up my logarithmic axis, I did try to set a different base, did not like it, and wanted to switch back to ten. You know what happens, when people are typing 10? They first enter a "1" and your logarithmic logic goes crazy! I had to kill the process, lose all my work and start it all over (hope, my clients will not do the same). Same can be observed, if I accidentally enter a "0" as a base.