Real time graph with live text data file as the source ?

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We have ChartFX and want to chart multiple realtime line graphs from a text

file which is created live from a COM port feed from our Print Presses.

I would greatly appreciate ANY help you could give.

Here's my story below....

would you have a sample of a VB app reading a live text file and creating a

realtime graph from it ?

please say yes.

The REALTIME graph examples in the Samples folder are very nice... but they

only deal with data generated from Random number formula.

My example below must generate a realtime graph based on a text file.

This text file has a record appended (to the bottom of it) every 2 seconds.

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Here is our challenge.

We are taking live data off a printing press, with a data record generated

every 2 seconds by a COM port feed...

the comma-separated record is appended to the end of the file (PRESS.TXT)

every 2 seconds.

The data, as it is sent, is not entirely clean and must be parsed of useless

information before being written to a permanent file.

We would also want to prefix the record line with the date/time of the

record creation.

This record from the press  tells us the 'Speed' of the various presses at

that instant ...this speed

may flucuate frequently over a one-minute span, thus the reading every 2

seconds.

We want to display that data, as it varies, to the Press Operator in several

ways.

One of these interfaces we would like to have is a line graph similar to the

NT Task Manager's Performance graphs (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Performance tab) ...

which is a real-time sliding line graph.

The right of the line graph would register the most current

data as it occurred.

Reading of the next record, 2 seconds later, would push the previous record

along the graph by one increment.

The graph would show the most recent 30-60 readings at any given point in

time.

For example....

* we have 2 presses (actually 18, but to make it a simple example...we have

2)

* we currently capture press speeds into a TEXT FILE which is similar to the

following

6:00:00am,300,420           '  (time, press1 speed, press2 speed)

6:00:02am,310,385

6:00:04am,295,400

6:00:06am,305,405

* Ideally..... the Operator would see two line graphs (or in reality, up to

9 line graphs), which

 would show the flucuations of print speed at these presses.

* Ideally also... we could plot the Standard Deviation of these lines

Questions:

* So..the data must be transmitted from the presses, cleaned up with a

parsing,

    displayed on the ChartFX control realtime line graph simultaneously ...

and finally,

    written to a permanent archive record.

* ideally we would also want to take a 'snapshot' at any point in time to

view/print a segment of

    time.

* does ANYONE out there have sample  code of using the  realtime ChartFX

controls with live data ?

* can we display this cleaned up data in  'as close to realtime' as

possible?

thanks for any support...

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