Jerry,

That's interesting. I am running Web Connection. Would you know if the class is part of it?

Steven

>Steven,
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>You might want to look at MS Office Web Components(OWC). This is a free tool from Microsoft. I believe it comes with MS Office or you can download it.
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>I use it to generate charts and graphs on our website on-the-fly. It is very fast and easy to use. West-Wind.com even has a class library that uses OWC.
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>Basically you can create your cursor to graph, set properties in OWC for chart type, colors, etc..., and OWC will chart the data and generate a .GIF in a location you specify.
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>Perhaps you could use this for creating a chart on your VFP report.
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry
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>>Hi,
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>>I want to create a pie chart and display it in a report. Has anyone done anything like that?
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>>The approach I thought off is rather clumsy:
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>>1. Export data into a table.
>>2. Open it in Excel through automation.
>>3. Create a chart programatically.
>>4. Capture this chart in a bitmap.
>>5. Save the bitmap to disk.
>>6. Use the bitmap in my report.
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>>The main problem with this is how do I turn it into a bitmap. I have previously used George Tasker's utility to turn screens into bitmaps, but that one may not be applicable as it is an excel spreadsheet we are dealing with. Also, I would rather that all this is done in the background, so the user does not see excel coming up.
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>>Now, is this a reasonable approach? Anyone has a better idea? If this is the only way forward, how do I turn the chart into a bitmap?
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>>Steven