StripLine Class

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting

Assembly:

System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.dll

Represents the strip lines on a chart.

public ref class StripLine : System::Windows::Forms::DataVisualization::Charting::ChartElement

public class StripLine : System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartElement

type StripLine = class
    inherit ChartElement

Public Class StripLine
Inherits ChartElement

Inheritance

Object

ChartElement

StripLine

Remarks

Strip lines, or strips, are horizontal or vertical ranges that shade the background of a chart in regular or custom intervals. You can use strip lines to:

• Improve readability for looking up individual values on the chart.

• Separate data points when reading the chart.

• Highlight dates that occur at regular intervals, for example, to identify weekend data points.

• Highlight a specific key range of data.

• Add a threshold line at a specific constant value.

A single StripLine object can either be drawn once, or repeatedly, for a given interval. This action is controlled by the Interval property. When a value of zero is assigned to the Interval property, one strip line will be drawn. When a non-zero value is assigned to the Interval property, a strip line will be drawn repeatedly at each given interval. The location where a strip line is drawn is also affected by the IntervalOffset and IntervalOffsetType properties of the strip line.

Strip lines are always associated with an Axis object. They can be added at both design time and run time.

To add a horizontal or vertical line to display a threshold, set the StripWidth property to a value of 0.0. This will result in a line being drawn. You can use the BorderColor, BorderDashStyle and BorderWidth properties for the color, width and style of the line. No chart background properties (Back*) are used when the StripWidth property is set to 0.0.

Use the Text property of the strip line to associate text with a strip line. The placement and orientation of this text can be controlled by the TextAlignment property.

When multiple strip lines are defined for the same axis, it is possible that the strip lines will overlap. The Z-order of StripLine objects is determined by their order of occurrence in the StripLinesCollection object. This means that the first occurrence is drawn first; the second occurrence is drawn second, and so on.

Strip lines are not supported for the following chart types: Pie, Doughnut, Funnel, Pyramid, Kagi, ThreeLineBreak, PointAndFigure, Polar and Radar.

Constructors

StripLine()

Initializes a new instance of the StripLine class.

Properties

BackColor	Gets or sets the background color of the strip line.
BackGradientStyle	Gets or sets the gradient style of the strip line.
BackHatchStyle	Gets or sets the hatching style of the strip line.
BackImage	Gets or sets the background image of the strip line.
BackImageAlignment	Gets or sets the background image alignment.
BackImageTransparentColor	Gets or sets a color which will be replaced with a transparent color when the background image is drawn.
BackImageWrapMode	Gets or sets the drawing mode of the background image of the strip line.
BackSecondaryColor	Gets or sets the secondary color of the strip line background.
BorderColor	Gets or sets the border color of a strip line.
BorderDashStyle	Gets or sets the border style of the strip line.
BorderWidth	Gets or sets the border width of the strip line.
Font	Gets or sets the font used for the strip line text.
ForeColor	Gets or sets the color of the strip line text.
Interval	Gets or sets the interval for a strip line, and determines if the strip line is drawn once or repeatedly.
IntervalOffset	Gets or sets the offset of grid lines, tick marks, strip lines and axis labels.
IntervalOffsetType	Gets or sets the interval offset type of the strip line.
IntervalType	Gets or sets the interval type of a StripLine object.
Name	Gets the name of the strip line.
StripWidth	Gets or sets the width of a strip line.
StripWidthType	Gets or sets the unit of measurement for the StripWidth property.
Tag	Gets or sets an object associated with this chart element. (Inherited from ChartElement)
Text	Gets or sets the text of the strip line.
TextAlignment	Gets or sets the text alignment of the strip line.
TextLineAlignment	Gets or sets the text line alignment of the strip line.
TextOrientation	Gets or sets the text orientation.
ToolTip	Gets or sets the tooltip of a strip line.

Methods

Dispose()	Releases the resources used by the ChartElement. (Inherited from ChartElement)
Dispose(Boolean)	Releases the unmanaged resources used by the StripLine and optionally releases the managed resources.
Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current ChartElement. (Inherited from ChartElement)
GetHashCode()	Returns a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from ChartElement)
GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object)
MemberwiseClone()	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object)
ToString()	Returns a string that represents the current Object. (Inherited from ChartElement)