Charting library

[agraham]

A charting library that can produce Bar, Line and Pie charts with an optional legend. Also the capability of saving images in several formats. Help file included. Requires .NET 2.0 and for the desktop only. I tried to port it to the device but had to give up. There is no GDI+ on the device and it would have been too big a rewrite. Also the bit of code that I (sort of) got working showed that the device really doesn't have enough resolution for this.

No credit to me for the charting code. It is some example Microsoft code from 2002 that I have taken, debugged, marginally ehnanced and written a Basic4PPC front end.

EDIT :- Device library and updated help added to zip.

[Erel]

Nice job:

[yildi]

Thank you very much Agraham! This was an old wish of mine (I have already suggested this to Erel in a post). We will be totally spoiled if a device version of this library (or a similar one) can be developed. Any idea Erel?

Regards,
Murat

[agraham]

Originally Posted by yildi

We will be totally spoiled if a device version of this library (or a similar one) can be developed.

Regard yourself spoiled. After starting over five times I finally made it work acceptably on the device. A few quirks probably remain. The device version is now posted in the zip together with the desktop version and an updated help. Because of the limited resolution on the device you may have to play around with properties a bit in order to get an acceptable chart.

[Heinz]

Thank you,
it's a nice library.

[yildi]

Originally Posted by agraham

Regard yourself spoiled. After starting over five times I finally made it work acceptably on the device. A few quirks probably remain. The device version is now posted in the zip together with the desktop version and an updated help. Because of the limited resolution on the device you may have to play around with properties a bit in order to get an acceptable chart.

Wow Agraham,
I definitely feel spoiled! Thank you very much for this new library

Best regards,

Murat

[Heinz]

How can i print out the image (chart) in my program ?
i don't want save it as image and print it with paint etc.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Heinz

How can i print out the image (chart) in my program ?
i don't want save it as image and print it with paint etc.

Use the latest version (1.5) of my desktop only printing library here Pretty printing library

Use

CopyImageToClipboard(Img AS Image) : Copies the specified image to the clipboard from where it may be pasted into a document. Image can be any source of an image in Basic4PPC. .e.g. Form.Image or ImageControl.Image or ImageList.Item(x) etc.

And then

PasteBitmap : If there is a bitmap on the clipboard it will be pasted into the RichTextBoxDesktop object. No control is available over size so some experimentation will be necessary to get the required result.

You can do loads of other pretty stuff with text as well.

[Heinz]

hello agraham,
this was a brilliant idea.
with only a few commands.

Thank you verry much.

Sub Button3_Click
    RT.New1("Form1", 10, 310, 570, 180)
    RT.Clear
    RT.Visible = False
    RT.CopyImageToClipBoard(Image1.Image)
    RT.PasteBitmap
    RT.PrintPreview
End Sub

[agraham]

Just in case you hadn't thought of it you can can control the horizontal position of the printed image with the Alignment property and/or the Tab method.