Producing graphs from an OI database (OpenInsight Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 02 MAR 1998 12:06:32PM Peter Bowyer wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

Does any body know of any software that produce graphs from an OI Database and if so how mach and from whom

At 03 MAR 1998 09:27AM Dave wrote:

Peter,

    You could use the Data Warehousing wizard in OI to export your data to any ODBC compliant data source that you are familar with for making graphs. If you go to our knowledge base there a few good articles on how this can be done.

DaveRevelation

At 03 MAR 1998 10:00AM Peter Bowyer wrote:

Dave,

Thanks for your reply. We had already thought of that one but would prefer a native graphing tool from within OI. If no one has one then we will resort to the ODBC method.

Thanks

Peter

At 03 MAR 1998 11:52AM Mike Ruane, WinWin Solutions Inc wrote:

Peter-

We've been doing this for years by DDEing the data to an Excel spreadsheet we set up for just that purpose.

We DDE the data into cells that are being used by the graph-you can actually see the grapg build itself.

The user than has the capabilities to change the graph type, print it, or whatever.

Mike Ruane

WinWin Solutions Inc.

At 04 MAR 1998 08:38AM Colin Rule (CSSP) wrote:

There are two ways (at least) to do this.

1. Have a look at Tony Splavers Web site.

He has a tool called OIWAM.

OI Windows Add-on Manager.

2. Write your own… we have.

We have taken a Delphi graphing control and set up calls from OI.

It works rather well.

If you want some screen dumps and/or tips please advise.

rulec@cssp.demon.co.uk

At 09 MAR 1998 01:22AM Andy Fekete wrote:

We wrote a C++ program that puts up a graph in an "always on top" window it displays in a fixed position on the screen. The graph application reads the data for the graph from text file generated from our application. The program was a bit of a hassle to write, but was conceptually pretty simple, since it contains only a single third party OCX graph control like you'd buy for Visual Basic.

To display the graph, our OI app writes the data file and then invokes the graph program. The tricky part is coding our OI app to manage the visablity of the graph, since the graph won't go away by itself if the OI form that spawned it is covered or destroyed.

. It'd be a whole lot easier if OI finally had support for VBX/OCX controls like Revelation always said it would…

Hope this helps,

-Andy

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