MSChart

[yaelachmon]

hello,

Can anyone direct me to a good guide on the mschart control? I'm doing ok with the basics of using it, but I need some more advanced features (I suspect they *are* there...).

And two specific questions:

1) How do I capture a double-click event on a line of data (in a line chart), so I can use the data of the line clicked?

2) How do I display labels near every data-point, containing the values of the points?

I would be gratefull if anyone could answer.

Yael

[Cimperiali]

'I found this in msdn (did not follow it all, so do not know if this may really help) searching for "mschart" - there were a lot of other info - :

SAMPLE: CHRTSAMP.EXE Visual Basic MSChart Sample


SUMMARY
The MSChart control sample project demonstrates how you can use the MSChart control to graphically display numeric information. This control allows you to display several different 2D and 3D charts in a variety of ways by controlling the appropriate properties. This sample also includes a supplemental Help file that contains additional information about the MSChart control.

The sample is available for download from the Visual Basic Owner's site at:

http://premium.microsoft.com/download/vbasic/ChrtSamp.exe (181Kb).
Note that you have to register to enter this site.

When you run the self-extracting executable, the following files are expanded into the VBWebSamples directory of your Visual Basic installation:
ChrtSamp.vbp 2Kb


frmchart.frm 13Kb


frmchart.frx 11Kb


gas.xls 17Kb


modchart.bas 8Kb


mschart.cnt 1Kb


mschart.hlp 296Kb


Readme.txt 2Kb


© Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved.
Contributions by Arsenio Locsin, Microsoft Corporation


Additional query words: ms chart charting example graph

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Version : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto
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[jai_vb]

Using the PointActivated Event to Change a Data Point
If you've started to explore the MSChart control, you will notice that it has a large number of events. These events allow you to program the chart to respond to practically any action of the user. As an example of this programmability, the PointActivated event is used in the following example to show how a data point can be changed using the Series and DataPoint parameters. (The PointActivated event occurs whenever a data point is double-clicked.) The Series and DataPoint parameters correspond to the Column and Row properties, and can thus be used to set the Data property:

Private Sub MSChart1_PointActivated(Series As _
Integer, DataPoint As Integer, MouseFlags As _
Integer, Cancel As Integer)
With MSChart1
.Column = Series
.Row = DataPoint
.Data = InputBox _
("Change the data point:", , .Data)
End With
End Sub