>Hi there.
>
>I'm considering using ChartFX to create one of two pie charts
>and I'd like to use these in a VFP report form.
>
>ChartFX is a reasonable enough activex to use and it nicely exports
>to a windows Metafile.
>
>Subsequently, if I use a database with a general field in it ... and the append general command ... it appears as an icon to the wmf file(inside the general field)
>
>If I use a bitmap file, append general actually loads in the picture,
>not a link.
>
>Does anyone know why this is?
>

yep - you have a program registered as an OLE Server for type .BMP, but not one for type .WMF, so the General field has no clue how to deal with the .WMF file. General fields require that something be setup in the registry to handle the file extension, and it must have at least an Open action associated with it.

>- I don't want to use a bitmap file ... doesn't scale well and I can't
>seem to get the ChartFX activex to write out a bitmap, anyways.

I don't know anything about ChartFX, but what about having it create GIF or JPEG files?