Hello,

A little background is required to justify my posting in the 1998 windows world...

I have written a little web based application that allows our budget managers access to their accounting data (VFP Automation Server, it includes Excel downloads, drill down and around etc. etc.) I was asked recently about providing a frame within the browser to display a graph of whatever level of detail was currently being viewed. No problem ... looked at MS Graph object model - that could work. The basic problem I have is that the VFP part is blindingly fast on our data sets (200,000 rows) compared to the graphing element and I get a major difference between users "wandering" through their data and the graphs being calculated, downloaded and then displayed. As an alternative I thought I might be able to use VFP to output a text character bar chart - could use HTML to brighten it up.

So at the danger of sounding naff has anyone written or heard of a character based VFP utility to output character based graphs ?

Andrew Logie