Making a copy of a chart for printing

[yefchak]

 Hi,

 I was looking at the following code excerpt in another posting on this forum.  I'm trying something nearly identical in my code.  I seem to create a duplicate chart in memory, but it doesn't seem to print.  First, here's the code excerpt I found:

 

private void PrintMosaic (Chart chart) {  // Calculate Rows/Cols  m_firstPage = true;

  // Make a coppy of the chart to avoid flickering

  MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();  chart.Export(FileFormat.Binary,stream);  stream.Position = 0;  m_chart = new Chart();  m_chart.Import(FileFormat.Binary,stream);  // Print    ...   }

 I'm doing the same thing in VB.net, and the new chart seems OK as far as I can tell. I print using the following approach:

m_chart.Paint(g, chartRect, ChartFX.WinForms.PaintStyles.Print)

 This works fine if I use my original chart, but using the copy produces no output. Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks,--George 

[Frank]

I believe the problem is that you are failing to provide the second chart with a size. The size is not serialized into the binary file.

Try adding the following right after the call to Import:

chart.Width = chartRect.Width;

chart.Height = chartRect.Height;

chart.UpdateSizeNow(); // Very important. This call commits the changed to the chart layout.

[yefchak]

 Thanks.  I had tried setting the size, but I didn't call UpdateSizeNow().  That fixed it.  :-)