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graph VFP 9 pie chart(3)

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taterday (Programmer)

30 Jul 12 19:18

I need to create a pie chart, line graph, graph design of data, etc for the user from his data. I can do this in excel but he wants me to automate this within the VFP app. Can someone steer me to a good book to buy on creating graphs? I am a total beginner on this. Are there a third party object, etc?

Thank you.

jrbbldr (Programmer)

30 Jul 12 20:40

Have you tried doing this in Excel while recording the operation as a Macro?

Then you can examine the code that 'belongs' to the Macro.

Yes, it is VBA code, but that can then be converted to VFP Excel automation code. Typically this is relatively easy to do.

As for a good book,
Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/autofox.htm

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

mplaza (Programmer)

30 Jul 12 20:48

FoxCharts is an excellent graphics library written in vfp:

http://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FoxCharts&...

Marco

MikeLewis (Programmer)

31 Jul 12 3:29

I agree with Marco re FoxCharts. Or, if you want something simpler, you might prefer my own SimpleChart, which is essentially a wrapper for the Microsoft MSChart control (http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/foxst-23.htm).

Both these are options are faster than Excel automation, and don't require Excel to be installed. On the other hand, the Excel option will probably give you more features.

Mike

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taterday (Programmer)

31 Jul 12 14:32

I downloaded the FoxCharts. I added the gdiplusx as a class. Are there any don't do, do's that I should look out far?

Thank all of you for your help.

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