Re: Large real time charts using dll

[User (Legacy)]

Good morning Erik, 

I had the same problem- it IS related to the even spacing command.  For what 

I remember Frank telling me was that the size of the chart is related to the 

number of points on it.  If you change the size of the chart up or down, the 

actual plotting area changes also so that each point has the same spacing 

amount.  Thus, when a certain threshold is hit, the spacing is reduced to a 

lower size and causes the blank you see. 

Getting ride of the CTE_EVENSPACING flag fixes this, but that's not what you 

want.  A separate solution is to make the whole chart fx bigger, which 

"pushes" you into the next level and makes the chart area reappear. 

I had the same problem with my real time chart which was a dynamically 

allocated window- whenever the user made the window just slightly too small, 

the chart area would disappear...  I finally got rid of the even spacing and 

the put code in to not refresh the display every time (this was to help 

performance).  Also I used CTE_SMOOTH and CTE_NOLEGINVALIDATE.  The smooth 

flag should take care of the flickering problem. 

(If you want, there is another thread called "Sample using VC++ and CFX98 

COMM Dll" that has a small application- this is a sample based on the 

dynamically allocated real time chart i am talking about.  Although in the 

sample, I put the EVENSPACING flag back in.) 

-- 

josh 

Erik Alsmyr <erik.alsmyr@home.se> wrote in message 

news:DE0379D14694D211B4CE00609770710D04FE30@sftfx-221.wamnet.net... 

> When I try to change the number of values in a realtime chart the chart 

area 

> automatically changes its size on the screen. I change this by setting the 

> MaxValues property to a new value. Because of this, when the chart area 

> becomes too big, something happens and it shrinks into a single vertical 

> line. 

> 

> I figure this has something to do with the CT_EVENSPACING flag. 

> 

> If I place the chart on the dialog in the resource editor I can set the 

> number of values high but since I am creating the chart in runtime I have 

to 

> change this property after creating the chart object and thereby reducing 

> the chart to a single vertical line as mentioned before. 

> 

> My question is if there is some way for me to lock the size of the 

charting 

> area so it does not change when I change the number of values? 

> 

> If not what method do you suggest for creating a real time chart with 

about 

> 5000 elements in runtime? If i exclude the CT_EVENSPACING flag the chart 

> flickers and takes up 100% of CPU when the number of values exceed 600. 

> 

> I am using VC++ 6.0. 

> 

> Regards 

> Erik Alsmyr erik.alsmyr@home.se 

>