Legend in two columns

[Sanix]

I have about 4 items on my legend. Its are displayed like this
- bla -bla
- blabal -blabalsd

But it should be displayed like in a table, so it would like this:
- bla____ - blabla
- blablab_- bla

[Sanix]

Does nobody know a solution? Do I have to extend the class StandardLegend?

[thiagot]

I have the same problem Sanix
Have u found the solution?
I need 3 columns

I will try to find a solution and then I will reply here

[Sanix]

No, unfortunately not. But would be really nice, if someone could help us or tell us at least which class we need to extend.

[svicheck]

I also have the same problem, although the number of columns and rows tend to be more dynamic in nature. I attempted to provide my own instance of LegendTitle using a GridArrangement for arrangement, but I think after setting it all up I simply received an UnsupportedOperationException or something similar.

It is quite possible that I was doing something wrong, but I have considered it a dead-end at the moment. I would be extremely interested if anyone has a workable solution.

[kgentile1010]

I also saw the info about getting the legend instance and reformatting it. Where does this code go? I can try to work it out and then post a solution if I'm successful. I'm using jasperreports and iReports to create the chart.

[eric74b]

Did anyone find any solution to this yet?

[1337rooster]

I ran into something similar to this, I think my same hackish approach will work. I'm not sure if JFreeChart built in method to make the columns, if it does I would recommend using that.

Basically, what you can do is make every key the same length in characters. So write some code to add trailing white spaces to the end of the keys so they all have the same length (equal to the length of the longest key), before adding them to your dataset.