- Qt 6.8
- Qt Charts
- Customizing Legends
- Qt Charts | Commercial or GPLv3

# Customizing Legends

Note: This is part of the Charts with QML Gallery example.

Here we show you how to create your own custom legend instead of using the built-in legend of ChartView API.

The main view of the application shows a stacked area chart. This is how one of the stacked areas is created. See ChartViewStacked.qml and AnimatedAreaSeries.qml.

     AnimatedAreaSeries {
         id: municipalSeries
         name: "municipal"
         axisX: axisX
         axisY: axisY
         borderWidth: 0
         upperSeries: LineSeries {
             id: municipalUpper
             XYPoint { x: 2006; y: 33119 + 13443 }
             XYPoint { x: 2007; y: 37941 + 15311 }
             XYPoint { x: 2008; y: 40122 + 16552 }
             XYPoint { x: 2009; y: 38991 + 17904 }
             XYPoint { x: 2010; y: 34055 + 17599 }
             XYPoint { x: 2011; y: 34555 + 19002 }
             XYPoint { x: 2012; y: 38991 + 19177 }
         }
         lowerSeries: stateUpper
     }

Hovering with mouse on top of the legend will highlight the hovered series. (see CustomLegend.qml).

     Row {
         id: legendRow
         anchors.centerIn: parent
         spacing: 10

         Repeater {
             id: legendRepeater
             model: legend.seriesCount
             delegate: legendDelegate
         }
     }
     Component {
         id: legendDelegate
         Rectangle {
             id: rect
         ...
             MouseArea {
                 id: mouseArea
                 anchors.fill: parent
                 hoverEnabled: true
                 onEntered: {
                     rect.gradient = buttonGradientHovered;
                     legend.entered(label.text);
                 }
                 onExited: {
                     rect.gradient = buttonGradient;
                     legend.exited(label.text);
                     marker.opacity = 0.3;
                     marker.height = 10;
                 }
                 onClicked: {
                     legend.selected(label.text);
                     marker.opacity = 1.0;
                     marker.height = 12;
                 }
             }

You can also select one of the stacked areas for a closer look as a line series by a mouse click (see ChartViewHighlighted.qml).

     ChartView {
         id: chartViewHighlighted

         property variant selectedSeries

         signal clicked

         legend.visible: false
         margins.top: 10
         margins.bottom: 0
         antialiasing: true

         LineSeries {
             id: lineSeries

             axisX: ValueAxis {
                 min: 2006
                 max: 2012
                 labelFormat: "%.0f"
                 tickCount: 7
             }
             axisY: ValueAxis {
                 id: axisY
                 titleText: "EUR"
                 min: 0
                 max: 40000
                 labelFormat: "%.0f"
                 tickCount: 5
             }
         }