Excel is quite good on graphing, and fairly easy to automate. You must decide, however, whether it is reasonable to assume that most clients / users will have Excel installed.
>For a few years, we have been using the old MSGraph control along with the APPEND GENERAL suggestion of feeding the values to the control.
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>As this table tends to get big at times, I've been investigating eliminating that method of populating a graph in favor of just feeding the control (or object) properties instead. I gave the MSChart control a whirl and it does work ok, except for when there is a large series (e.g. 475 rates on an interest rate yield curve) that get fed to the chart from a table. In that example, the chart take a very long time to refresh itself.
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>Can anyone recommend a graph control/object that wouldn't be too evil to figure out and would actually refresh itself rather quickly on a large series?
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>Laterness,
>Jon
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