SimpleChart upgrade

[bynar724]

Has anyone upgraded SimpleChart to the standard or enterprise edition in there Alpha Five implementation? Was the upgrade straightforward, or did it require some tweaking? I'm considering upgrading to standard, and I just wanted to get an idea about any challenges ahead. Thanks.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Hi Adam,

I upgraded to Standard. All the coding works just the same.

Why do you want to upgrade?

[bynar724]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Thanks for the response Keith.

I'm considering upgrading more as a preemptive measure than to solve an immediate problem. I don't have much experience with SimpleChartLite, but it seems very limited compared to the charting capabilities of Excel. Since one of the hurdles of implementing a proper database application in an organization is convincing users to break their dependency on Excel, I don't want the limitations of SimpleChartLite to hold back an implementation of an Alpha Five application. I would appreciate any thoughts you, or others, have on this subject.

As far as my question about the upgrade process, I wanted to make sure that the SimpleChart installer recognizes the SimpleChartLite .dll in Alpha Five and automatically replaces it with the Standard Edition. Did you find that to be the case in your upgrade?

Thanks.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Hi Adam,

There is no comparison with Simple Chart and the graphs you can create in Excel or any other graph program. Simple Charts will not do 3D, at any level.

Simple chart is the only one that I know intergrates with Alpha, but I'm sure there are others for which I suggest you do a good search.

There are no issues that I can remember about upgrading.

[robert]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

"convincing users to break their dependency on Excel"
Isn't that the truth. I used to work for a company with about 2000 engineers. You couldn't get these highly educated people to either understand a database or why a database is better for much of the work being done in Excel. Yet, when they were unknowingly using a program which was actually a database application, they thought it was great.

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Keith I was wondering when you upgraded to simple charts standard edition what you had to do.

I have downloaded the demo version to try some of the additional functionality (orientation is not available in lite version)

and even though I have installed I am still getting

chartX.orientation =scChartOrientationHorizontal<br />OLE Automation Error. Source is SimpleChartLite.AxisChartGenerator.4."
<br />This property or method is not available in the Lite version of SimpleChart. Visit www.simplechart.net to find out how to upgrade."
<br />chartX.orientation subelement not found."


Any ideas?

thanks

[Keith Hubert]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Hi Claire,

First you have to make sure the full version is installed so that Alpha can see it in the list of ActiveX Controls.

Then you have to rebuild your graph with this new version, which you select from the list, as you did before.

With a little luck you should be able to get it to work.

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Thanks Keith
I did an a5 page for my generating chart... must I just re-do that?

thanks

---
<%a5
Dim chartX as P
chartX = ole.Create("SimpleChartLite.AxisChartGenerator")
dim list as C
dim pers as N
pers= 1
list = table.external_record_content_get("person", "Description+'|'+Rating", "person->personid = "+pers )
chartX.DataSeries.AddBarSeries("Full Description", scFillModeAutoSolid)
dim desc as C
dim num as N
for each x in list
desc = alltrim( word(x, 1, "|") )
num = val( word(x, 2, "|") )
chartX.DataSeries(1).SeriesData.Add(desc, num )
next
chartX.height = 400
chartX.width = 300
chartX.orientation =scChartOrientationHorizontal
Response.mime_type = "image/jpeg"
? chartX.SaveToStream(2)
delete chartX
%>

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

That was really dumb of me all I had to change was


chartX = ole.Create("SimpleChartLite.AxisChartGenerator")

Thanks

[Keith Hubert]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Hi Claire,

chartX = ole.Create("SimpleChartLite.AxisChartGenerator")

What did you change it to?

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Sorry

Just


chartX = ole.Create("SimpleChart.AxisChartGenerator")

Had to take reference of lite out :-)

[Atta]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Could any of you put some links here for where you can download simplechart for free, or do you have to pay for it now??

[MikeC]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Roelof,
Googling shows an old version 1.1 for free at sourceforge.....but SimpleChartLite (if that actually is what you are referring to) is included in Alpha automatically; at least up through v9....documentation as a chm file is also located in your install file. So check your install file to see if it is still there to see.

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: SimpleChart upgrade

Go here
http://www.simplechart.net/demo.aspx
This version you dont need to pay for.
I ended upgrading to the newer version as it seems to have slightly better gaphs.