UPDATE : 2009/11/06-----------------------------
Finally, I've update this little control and now you can have it in your EXE, no need to compile as an ocx or ..., some bugs about speed of chart were fixed,
Sorry for the delay and hope you enjoy,
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This is My Animated Chart Version 2, with 4 new themes: PersianGulf, Sky, Neon and Normal.
Some changes in animating mode, now all bars grow simultaneously instead of one by one, some bugs fixed and now you can show bars descriptions and ...
This is the first Animating Chart in PSC and I can't found any commercial instance (of course you can found some Flash Maker),
Hope you like it, I', waiting for your feedbacks and if you like this please vote,
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Hi.Just took a look at Animated Chart and it looks Fantastic. I am trying to do a chart like this for my database, I have a basic chart where I can add users to the sales database and it shows that months profits.I dont really need it to Animate and wondered if you could make it where you pass the number of users and what the profit made by each user and the number os Sales Invoices.It may be easier for you to do this, but I will have ago as well to change code. Let me know if possible. One bug I did find, if the Bars load and you show the Legend, the colour around the small square turns grey. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Gary, Thx for your feedback, currently I'm working on the new version of Animated Chart because I like it and want to add more features, so I'll try to fix buges and add what you want, also if you can send me a picture of what you really need, it will be so nice, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Awesome stuff buddy! The aesthetic effect you have manged to create is just off the charts man! :) Keep it up and keep rocking, yo! Your work definitely deserves the 'Code Of The Month' award! Simply brilliant! Excellent rating from me :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Thx Ahamed, Votes and feedbacks from U and the other PSCs is my award, all ths PSC is brilliant, Now I really want to create a new chart with lots of features and options, although these days I'm very busy but I can't control myself to preparing the new version, Thx again and hope to have your suggestions for the new version, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I found another bug: I end the project or unload the form when bars is drawing, the animation still work (it should stop drawing when we unload the parent window).
Hope you fix this bug. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Hamed. My bar chart is very very basic, some pic Boxes and Labels.(Not very good) that why i am interested in using yours. Very slick looking.(Let me know your email and I will send pic) A few Idea's I have. 1.Allow Animation to be set on or Off in Properties 2.Allow the Legend to be Displayed or Not when first showing control (maybe also make it so the Legend cannot be hidden) 3.Enable or Disable the Mouseover event 4.Set a Maximum Grid Value (mine is in £££ as a total) 5.On the Legend I made , I also have extra info ie Number of Sales as well.Maybe you could add an extra space for some extra info (Can email you direct with pic if you want)
I will probably come up with a few more Idea's (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
hai2hai, Thx for the bug, it's for the doevents using in the animated chart, For the speed of drawing simply change the DrawItem step (something about 15 may be good) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
As I mentioned before, this chart is based on ActiveChart and I've just changing some parts and add animation and theme because of a force in my project, so the basics are still from ActiveChart, By now I'm preparing the new version from the base so I'll try to put as much as I can to bring you a good, stable, full customizable Chart, Just give me a little time and I'll be back will the UltraChart, During this very short period, I'm waiting for your suggestions, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
this is amazing, one slight bug, if you start the graph with the legend showing showlegend(false) then when you go to hide it the resize is wrong, apart from that I think its the best code I've seen for years (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
hai2hai Did you check this version? It's the second version of my control, I'm currently working on it but really don't know the exact time, I'm a little busy, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Sorry but for this version, You should compile it and use it in your EXE as an ActiveX component, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Thanks for your contributions .and thanks for the code also .
for the control. I can not used it as ocx. I wanted to add it to my project as ocx. I compiled it and the control behavior was not the same as the attached sample. eg if you compile the control as ocx and add to new project. the mousemove event will not work and the color change of different bars upon mouse over will not work . also all bars will have the same color .
Your support is well appreciated.
Regards, Waleed Makarem (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Fantastic! Works like a charm. Is there a way to add the Bar's value as a tooltip text, so that if the user places the cursor over a bar, its value,(as well as its description?) is displayed as a tooltip? Is there a way not to display XAxisDescription as vertical text, but keep it horizontal? Option to hide the Description bar? Printing using the formPrint works, but of course prints the description bar. I hope this does not sound like I dont like this chart. I do, thats why I would love to have these features. Excellent work! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Dear Marc, It's a dream for me to have enouh time and add more features to this, It seems that I should do this for my current project, so plz let me a little time, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Plz See my UltraChart for the new version: http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=1&txtCodeId=7 2707 (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Many thanks It is so great and amazing The beauty of it is that it is embedded in the exe and no OCX distribution is required Many thanks again (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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