Legends¶

A chart places its legend from its size: on the right, then below, then hidden when there is no room. Users can pick another place.

A legend of eight products on the right of a chart, shown by pages with a pager in its corner

Where¶

In the designer's Visual section, Legend offers Automatic, Right, Bottom, Top, Left and Hidden.

LegendPosition = ChartLegend.Bottom,   // omitted from the JSON when Auto

A chosen side applies while the chart has room for it; otherwise the automatic place does.

By pages¶

When a legend has more entries than its room shows, it shows them by pages: a small pager (◀ 2/5 ▶) appears in the corner next to it; its buttons and the mouse wheel turn the pages. The pager is a lookless control, ChartLegendPager, restyled like any other. Legends otherwise keep their charting library's look.

OxyPlot pies

OxyPlot names the slices of a pie around it rather than in a legend: hiding the legend drops those names.