Hi,
I'd like to know how to prevent X-axis labels from randomly displaying as "..."
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When the smart axis panel is turned on, after the chart first displays the axis panel, the height of the panel gets locked. The idea here is to prevent the axis panel's height from jumping around, which can happen while zooming/panning or if a longer label appears/disappears for whatever reason. If you're loading a chart with no data I can see this being a problem. You'll just get a very short label panel. For a case like this, try using unlockSmartAxisLabelPanel method off your X axis when you get some points in the chart. It will resize the panel based on the labels that are currently in it.
When I turn on smart axis label panel I get this whenever the chart fully loads without items and then adds the first item:
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The ellipsis can be quite annoying in certain cases. The chart trims the labels and appends ellipsis to prevent label overlap.
We wrote a smart axis label panel feature a while back. It'll scale the font or rotate/stagger labels to prevent overlap instead of trimming.Have you tried using that? (xAxis.useSmartAxisLabelPanel = YES) Without the smart axis panel, I think your other option would be to change the date formatting for a shorter string or increase the axis interval for more space between the full, untrimmed labels.
Are you using a CategoryXAxis or a CategoryDateTimeXAxis in your project? I can write up a sample if that will help.