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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:44:22 -0700, Harry Vermillion wrote:

> I'm using CHARTFX 3.0 for charting and the screen displays in the forms are
> great, but in trying to print using Vic McClung's printer class, no graphics
> apear in the printout.  even a straight WINAPI call (rectangle(p.hDC,
> 0,0,1000,1000)) won't do anything.  Anybody got any insight to his at all?

Haven't tried it, but you might be able to do it with a temp table
with a binary field.  I seem to remember ChartFX having the ability to
copy to the clipboard and from there you could paste it into a table
record.


Gary

Some dBASE Stuff at
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Thanks for the reply, Gary, I thought I was stranded.

From CHARTFX I can copy to the clipboard, to a metafile, to a bitmap or to
an "internal" file.  I don't have the experience of copying anything into a
binary field/table record (yet sounds right), but then I think I'd be back
to the problem I'm having with printing a metafile, bitmap or other file as
I would with the record.

I'm developing on an NT platform for Win95 and NT platforms.  If I try to
print something as easy (and well defined in the 16-bit WINAPI) as a
rectangle, using the handle I get from Vic McClung's printer class for the
printer Device Context, it fails.  No error - no grahpic, just an empty
page.    

I'm begining to suspect that there may be some differences in the 32-bit
handles returned by the printer class' functions, until I realize that the
text I send to the class prints out JUST FINE.  In testing, if I bracket the
graphics with text, say text on page 1, the chart on page 2 and more text on
page 3, I get the first page with text, a blank page and the third page with
text, appropriately.

The CHARTFX support says that not being able to p[rint the rectangle shows
that the DC for the printer is incorrect, though it displys the same for all
three pages in MSGBOX's.  I'm pretty frustrated, and began thinking that
maybe this would require thunking, but so far I've only found the CALL32.DLL
which doesn't seem to work (probably due to a bad translation of the VB code
to VdB on my part.

I've asked the 16-bit NG if thunking works on VdB 5.6 and haven't had any
response yet.  I've looked at other third party charting packages (bought
Borland's Visual Solutions Pack 1 - DON'T GO THERE) and the coding used is
very similar/nearly identical to what Vic has coded in 
his printer class.  Maybe this is not possible.

Sorry to dump on you, I can wrap up this app if the users can push a button
and out comes the paper with the graphics.  But thanks again for the reply.  
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:50:10 -0700, Harry Vermillion wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Gary, I thought I was stranded.

It will probably be a couple of days before I have the time to
experiment with it, but I've marked your message and I'll try to see
if I can come up with something.


Gary

Some dBASE Stuff at
http://www.AppTools.com/dbase

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:50:10 -0700, Harry Vermillion wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Gary, I thought I was stranded.

Harry, I'm sorry to take so long to get back to you on this.  I've
spent considerable time trying to get the chart into a printable
format.  Unfortunately, I've found no way to paste an image into
either a binary, or an ole field and ChartFX will only save a chart in
its own proprietary format.

I'm afraid that I'm without a solution.


Gary

Some dBASE Stuff at
http://www.AppTools.com/dbase

In article <36681dd2.3536496@forums.borland.com>, Gary (Gary White) 
politely paraphrased...
> > Thanks for the reply, Gary, I thought I was stranded.
> 
> Harry, I'm sorry to take so long to get back to you on this.  I've
> spent considerable time trying to get the chart into a printable
> format.  Unfortunately, I've found no way to paste an image into
> either a binary, or an ole field and ChartFX will only save a chart in
> its own proprietary format.
> 
> I'm afraid that I'm without a solution.
> 
Check the program below, it uses a different approach. It's a separate 
program that reads text scripts and can be called from any program DOS or 
Windows 16 or 32 bit. It just reads the script file and creates JPGs etc 
without even coming up in that is what you need

I took a look a couple of days ago and it looks nice. They have a 
downloadable working demo.

+-----------------------------------------------+
| SmartChart 3.3                                |
| 32-Bit release for Windows 95/98/NT           |
| Copyright (c) 1998 ProFile Software & Systems |
| Sales:    sales@profilesoft.com               |
| Support:  support@profilesoft.com             |
| Web site: http://www.profilesoft.com          |
+-----------------------------------------------+

1.  Introduction
----------------
SmartChart is a product of ProFile Software & Systems,
that provides a simple and fast solution for creating
and displaying graphs from within custom application.
SmartChart can be used with any programming language or
RAD tools that can generate a text file and execute a
program.

With SmartChart you can run off-line (batch) processes
enabling generation of several graphs directed into
different channels such as a printer, a BMP file, a JPEG
file and the clipboard. This feature enables you to add
graphs to your web page (see section 4).

Communicating with SmartChart is a simple task: your
application just needs to create a simple text file and
execute SmartChart with the file name as its argument.
This way of communication saves the overhead of interfacing
another process using DDE/OLE, and most important -- saves
time and money during development.

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