>Hello,
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>A little background is required to justify my posting in the 1998 windows world...
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>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.
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>So at the danger of sounding naff has anyone written or heard of a character based VFP utility to output character based graphs ?

If you already have to generate HTML, why not draw rectangles dimensioned proportionally to your data? I.e. doing bar graphs using HTML elements, like tables with two columns, left one painted somewhat, right one transparent, making percentage of with variable etc. Should be quick as a flash and relatively easy to do.