How To Use the Pinnacle Graph Control to Graph Data

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

This article explains how to use the Pinnacle Publishing Graph ActiveX control that ships with Visual Basic. The Pinnacle Graph control is available in a 16- or 32-bit version.

MORE INFORMATION

This example uses the Pinnacle Graph Control that ships with Visual Basic 4.0. In order to use the Pinnacle Graph Control, it must first be properly registered. For more information about registering controls, please see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article referenced below.

In Visual FoxPro, perform the following steps:

1. Add the Pinnacle Graph ActiveX control. On the Tools menu, click Options, and click the Controls tab. Click ActiveX controls and select Pinnacle-BPS Graph Control.

2. Create a new local view using the TestData!Employee table.

3. Add the field Count(*) to the Available fields Expression text box.

4. Click the Group By tab and add Employee.City

5. Save the local view as "Group by City."

6. Create a new form and add the Pinnacle Graph Control from the ActiveX controls. Size the Graph to accordingly. The default name of the control is OleControl1.

7. Set the Visible property of the OleControl1 to .F.

8. Add the local view "Group by City" in the DataEnvironment of the form.

9. Add a command button. Set the name property to cmdGraph with the caption set to Graph.

10. In the Click event of cmdGraph add the following code:

           WITH thisform.Olecontrol1
             .NumPoints = reccount()
             .NumSets = 1
             .Autoinc = 1
             .GraphTitle = "Employees by City"
             .Labels = 1
             .FontUse = 2
             .FontSize = 200
           ENDWITH
    
           GO TOP
           * Add the Data for each bar
           DO WHILE !EOF()
              ThisForm.OleControl1.GraphData = cnt
              SKIP
           ENDDO
    
           GO TOP
           * Add the label for each bar
           DO WHILE !EOF()
              ThisForm.OleControl1.LabelText = City
           SKIP
           ENDDO
    
           WITH ThisForm.OleControl1
              .ThisSet = 1
              .GraphType = 4
              .DrawMode = 2
              .Visible = .T.
           ENDWITH
    
    

11. Run the form and click the command button.

REFERENCES

For more information about registering controls, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q146219
   TITLE     : How To Register an OLE Custom Control (.ocx file) Manually