ILegend Interface

Provides access to members that control a legend. Note: the ILegend interface has been superseded byILegend2. Please consider using the more recent version.

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Members

	All Properties Methods Inherited Non-inherited	Description
	AddItem	Adds a new item to the legend (to the end of the list).
	AutoAdd	Indicates if a new item should be added when a new layer is added to the map.
	AutoReorder	Indicates if the legend items should be kept in the same order as the layers.
	AutoVisibility	Indicates if items should be shown only when associated layers are visible.
	ClearItems	Removes all items from the legend.
	DelayEvents	Used to batch operations together to minimize notifications.
	Draw	Draws the map surround into the specified display bounds.
	FitToBounds	Adjusts the map surround to fit the bounds. The changed argument indicates whether the size of the map surround was changed.
	FlowRight	Reserved for future use.
	Format	The formatting options for the legend (can be stored in the style gallery).
	Icon	Icon used to represent the map surround.
	InsertItem	Inserts a new item into the legend (at the location specified by index).
	Item	The specified item from the legend.
	ItemCount	Number of items in the legend.
	Map	The parent map.
	Name	Name of the map surround.
	QueryBounds	Returns the bounds of the map surround.
	Refresh	Makes sure the latest updates are refected the next time the Map Surround is drawn.
	RemoveItem	Removes the specified item from the legend.
	Title	Title.

Inherited Interfaces

CoClasses that implement ILegend

Remarks

Use this interface to modify a legend and access its subparts.

A legend is mostly a collection of legend items, one for each layer of the map. See the ILegendItem documentation for information about these. ILegend provides access to and manages the legend’s items with the Item and ItemCount properties as well as the AddItem, InsertItem, RemoveItem and ClearItems methods.

The format of the legend is managed by the LegendFormat object. The Format properties gives access to this object through the ILegendFormat interface. ILegend also manages a few of the legend properties such as the Title . When changing the properties of an existing legend, you must call Refresh to have the changes reflected in the layout.

Finally the AutoAdd, AutoReorder and AutoVisibility properties are used to synchronize the aspect and ordering of the legend with the TOC. The default value for this property is True.