HintStyle Class

Stores the appearance settings of chart hints.

Assembly : DevExpress.Maui.Charts.dll

NuGet Package : DevExpress.Maui.Charts

Declaration

csharp

public class HintStyle :
    HintStyleBase

The following members return HintStyle objects:

Hint.Style

Remarks

The HintStyle class provides a set of properties that you can use to customize the appearance of hints that the chart shows:

Hint Element

Property

Description

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1. Hint Label

BackgroundColor

Gets or sets the hint label’s background color. This is a bindable property.

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ItemsIndent

Gets or sets the indent between crosshair hint label items. This is a bindable property.

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MarkerSize

Gets or sets the hint’s marker size. This is a bindable property.

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Padding

Gets or sets the hint’s label padding. This is a bindable property.

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TextIndent

Gets or sets the indent between a hint marker and text. This is a bindable property.

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2. Argument Line

ArgumentLineStyle

Gets or sets the options that configure the argument line appearance for the crosshair hint. This is a bindable property.

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3. Value Line

ValueLineStyle

Gets or sets the options that configure the value line appearance for the crosshair hint. This is a bindable property.

Example

This example sets the ChartView hint behavior to crosshair, and how to specify the crosshair hint properties.

Set the ChartView.Hint property to the Hint object, with the Enabled property set to True.
Assign the CrosshairHintBehavior object to the Hint.Behavior property. Specify the GroupHeaderTextPattern and MaxSeriesCount properties to manage the crosshair cursor label content.
Create a new HintStyle object and assign it to the Hint.Style property to customize the hint appearance. Assign the CrosshairLineStyle class instance with specified LabelBackgroundColor, Stroke, and TextStyle properties to the HintStyle.ArgumentLineStyle and HintStyle.ValueLineStyle properties to modify appearance of the hint lines and hint labels.

XAML

xml

<dxc:ChartView.Hint>
    <dxc:Hint Enabled="True">
        <!--...-->
        <dxc:Hint.Behavior>
            <dxc:CrosshairHintBehavior
                    GroupHeaderTextPattern="{} Year: {A$YYYY}"
                    MaxSeriesCount="3" />
        </dxc:Hint.Behavior>
        <dxc:Hint.Style>
            <dxc:HintStyle>
                <dxc:HintStyle.ArgumentLineStyle>
                    <dxc:CrosshairLineStyle LabelBackgroundColor="#383c44"
                                            Stroke="Blue">
                        <dxc:CrosshairLineStyle.TextStyle>
                            <dxc:TextStyle Color="White"
                                           Size="30"/>
                        </dxc:CrosshairLineStyle.TextStyle>
                    </dxc:CrosshairLineStyle>
                </dxc:HintStyle.ArgumentLineStyle>
                <dxc:HintStyle.ValueLineStyle>
                    <dxc:CrosshairLineStyle LabelBackgroundColor="#383c44"
                                            Stroke="Red">
                        <dxc:CrosshairLineStyle.TextStyle>
                            <dxc:TextStyle Color="White"
                                           Size="30"/>
                        </dxc:CrosshairLineStyle.TextStyle>
                    </dxc:CrosshairLineStyle>
                </dxc:HintStyle.ValueLineStyle>
            </dxc:HintStyle>
        </dxc:Hint.Style>
    </dxc:Hint>
</dxc:ChartView.Hint>