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    Chart ActiveX without MS Office

    Is it possible to create charts using ActiveX without having MS Office installed? I use OpenOffice.org and do not have MS Office (or any of its individual programs) installed. How can I use ActiveX to display charts?

    Howard
    Howard G. Cornett, Independent Consultant
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    RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

    the sample apps that a5 ships to demo activeX support use the charting activeX control that is part of MS Office. so, if you don't have Office installed, you don't have this activeX control on your computer, and you therefore can't run the sample charting apps that we ship.

    you will have to find some other charting activeX controls. you will also have to rewrite the demo apps that we ship because it is unlikely that these alternative activeX controls would use the same API (i.e. set of commands) that the Microsoft Office activeX controls use.

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      #3
      RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

      Is it possible to get the Microsoft Office activeX controls without purchasing Office?

      Howard
      Howard G. Cornett, Independent Consultant

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        #4
        RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

        i don't know, you would have to contact Microsoft. My guess is that you could not.

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          RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

          Howard,

          This is a very good question. A whole lot of the world is trying hard to move away from having to have costly, buggy ans security hole prone MS products in order to do anything. Thus I think Alpha should have (and still should) try to find something other then MS Office to tie charting and graphing to. Of course one can do some charts and graphs with A5 and A6 alone, but having been there and done that I can tell you that it is quite a bit of work (time).

          Ray Lyons

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            #6
            RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

            Ray, we have not tied charting and graphing to anything specific. We created an example of how to use ActiveX controls that happens to use the MS charting control. This is one of many graphing and charting controls available, you are free to use any ActiveX control you wish.

            -Lenny

            Lenny Forziati
            Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
            Alpha Software Corporation

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              RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

              I've played a bit with Steema's (standalone) TeeChart Office (shareware) product ( http://www.steema.com/products/TeeChartOffice) and see that they also have an ActiveX version - I have no idea whether it would work - but if someone wants to check it out .... http://www.steema.com/products/teechart/ax/overview.html

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                RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                Does anyone at Alpha know if we can use the TABLE.XML_EXPORT() function in conjunction with a program like that of Fusion Charts (http://www.infosoftglobal.com/FusionCharts/) to do charts without ActiveX?

                Howard
                Howard G. Cornett, Independent Consultant

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                  RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                  It look slike Fusion Charts requires a very specific XML data format. TABLE.XML_EXPORT() will not create that required format. However it would be fairly simple to create an Xbasic script that generates the required output since XML is just text.

                  Lenny Forziati
                  Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                  Alpha Software Corporation

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                    RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                    Lenny -

                    I saw the demo that shows a line chart. I think this is exactly what I need, however, As I look at the code, I cant figure out where the rows/columns of data are defined. Is there a specific tutorial that you are aware of that will walk me through setting this up?

                    Jim

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                      RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                      Jim,

                      I'll second that request.

                      Alan

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                        RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                        Alan -

                        We figured it out. AND ITS AWESOME!!! Here's the trick... You need to get the appropriate driver that allows Alpha to interface with the Active X control. The drive you need is for "standard foxpro v2.6 file format", which is what Alpha requires. Once the driver is installed we were able to point to our tables and create some amazing charts.

                        Good Luck.

                        Jim

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                          RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                          Jim

                          "...You need to get the appropriate driver that allows Alpha to interface with the Active X control."

                          Driver for which specific control?

                          Thanks,
                          Bill

                          Sounds like you should be writing the tutorial!
                          Bill Hanigsberg

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                            #14
                            RE: Chart ActiveX without MS Office

                            Thus far we are still testing the MS Office Chart 10 control, but the one we will eventually use is ChartFX from SoftwareFX, currently its the control we are using on our production SQL server. We should be testing this control more in the next 2-3 weeks.

                            Jim

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