How to handle a pie chart when the user enters all Zeros

[User (Legacy)]

We are expereincing a problem with the chart when all the data points are 0.

The chart crashes with a "divide by zero" exception.

We noticed that when using your data editor it works fine.  We are using a

custom data editor and do not understand why this is happening.  Any

suggestions?

Thank you

Bill Large

Metavante

[User (Legacy)]

additional info:

    -    This only happens for Pie charts, Bar charts are ok with all 0

values.

    -    I tried the constant Chart.Hidden for the value if it is set to 0

but still blows up with the same exception listed below.

    -    When a data point value is updated by the user we always clear the

chart data and reload all the values.

"Bill Large" <largewi@wi.rr.com> wrote in message

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> We are expereincing a problem with the chart when all the data points are

0.

> The chart crashes with a "divide by zero" exception.

>

> We noticed that when using your data editor it works fine.  We are using a

> custom data editor and do not understand why this is happening.  Any

> suggestions?

>

> Thank you

>

> Bill Large

> Metavante

>

>

[Software FX]

I tried the following:

chart1.AxisY.ResetScale();

chart1.Gallery = Gallery.Pie;

chart1.OpenData(COD.Values | COD.AllocHidden,n1,n2);

for (j = 0; j < n2; j++) {

    for (i = 0; i < n1; i++)

        chart1.Value[i,j] = 0;}

chart1.CloseData(COD.Values);

And got no crash. Can you lease post/send some code that reproduces this

problem

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FP

Software FX, Inc.

[User (Legacy)]

Ok here is the code that causes this:

SoftwareFX.ChartFX.GalleryObj.Pie pie = null;

pie = (SoftwareFX.ChartFX.GalleryObj.Pie)chart1.GalleryObj;

pie.LabelsInside = false;

chart1.PointLabelMask = "%l";

chart1.PointLabels = true;

chart1.OpenData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.Values,1,5);

chart1.Value[0,0] =0;

chart1.Value[0,1] =0;

chart1.Value[0,2] =0;

chart1.Value[0,3] =0;

chart1.Value[0,4] =0;

chart1.Legend[0] = "1";

chart1.Legend[1] = "2";

chart1.Legend[2] = "3";

chart1.Legend[3] = "4";

chart1.Legend[4] = "5";

chart1.Point[0, 0].SeparateSlice = 0;

chart1.Point[0, 1].SeparateSlice = 0;

chart1.Point[0, 2].SeparateSlice = 0;

chart1.Point[0, 3].SeparateSlice = 0;

chart1.Point[0, 4].SeparateSlice = 0;

chart1.Point[0, 0].Color = Color.Black;

chart1.Point[0, 1].Color = Color.Wheat;

chart1.Point[0, 2].Color = Color.Blue;

chart1.Point[0, 3].Color = Color.Green;

chart1.Point[0, 4].Color = Color.Aqua;

chart1.CloseData(SoftwareFX.ChartFX.COD.Values);

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

chart1.Export(FileFormat.Bitmap, stream);

It appears that with PointLabels turned on and then trying to export the

chart to a stream causes it to blow up.

[Software FX]

Ok. It is the combination of Legends and all zero values what makes it

crash, we will fix this in the next SP.

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FP

Software FX, Inc.