OK. I got it to work with Microsoft Graph by playing around a bit.

I put Microsoft Graph in a general field, and passed values to it.

Thanks a lot.

Steven


>>>The main problem with this is how do I turn it into a bitmap
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>You can do this by putting an OLE general field instance in a form, referencing the form in a UDF called by the report bands, and poking values into the general field's graph (or chart) as you go through the detail instances. You don't really need a file to exist anywhere, IOW.
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>But you can turn an Excel chart or graph into a bitmap too, if you want, without seeing Excel.
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>The basic method is something like this:
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>* -- design a template XLS with the graph you need
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>* -- automate Excel to poke the appropriate values in (user does *not* have to see this)
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>* -- tell Excel to SaveAs type HTML
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>* -- grab the resulting image(s) which are always named and positioned according to a specific pattern with respect to the file path and name of the HTML file
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>* -- rename and re-position the image file(s) as you want them.
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>In VFP 9, of course, you have other possibilities that don't involve MS Chart or Excel at all <g>.
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