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Well, this is a tricky one.

The chart is a control contained inside another (a form, user, control,

etc.), so the chart does NOT control its size, its container does. It won´t

do any good to make the chart bigger if the Form that contains it remains

the same. The chart can not resize the form because it wouldn´t know what to

do with other controls in it, in general it is not a common practice to have

a control have an effect over the size of its container.

What exactly do you need ? What do you want to do with the container and

other controls as the chart size is increased. What if the chart needs to be

larger than the screen or the chart + other controls don´t fit in it ? All

these are decisions that can only be made by the container (you) and in

general there is no straight answer to them.

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Francisco Padron

www.chartfx.com

"mark" <mmbaker@bna.com> wrote in message

news:CRexQeYvGHA.1292@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> Is there a way to ask the chart control to resize itself to "fit" so that

> the full data table is shown and all columns of a graph?

>

> Thanks

> Mark

>

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Hi,

We are using a secondary reporting component to do all of our reporting. So

we export ChartFX graphs to images (bitmaps) and then place them in the

reports. This works, but we need to tell ChartFx to size itself large

enough so that it doesn´t scroll its data table or columns. Like if the

user stretched the window enough. There should be some means for ChartFX to

know this since it knows to show the scroll bars if it runs out of room.

Ideas?

Thanks

Mark

"Software FX Support" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message

news:EotPkzivGHA.1280@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> Well, this is a tricky one.

>

> The chart is a control contained inside another (a form, user, control,

> etc.), so the chart does NOT control its size, its container does. It

> won´t do any good to make the chart bigger if the Form that contains it

> remains the same. The chart can not resize the form because it wouldn´t

> know what to do with other controls in it, in general it is not a common

> practice to have a control have an effect over the size of its container.

>

> What exactly do you need ? What do you want to do with the container and

> other controls as the chart size is increased. What if the chart needs to

> be larger than the screen or the chart + other controls don´t fit in it ?

> All these are decisions that can only be made by the container (you) and

> in general there is no straight answer to them.

>

> --

> Francisco Padron

> www.chartfx.com

>

>

> "mark" <mmbaker@bna.com> wrote in message

> news:CRexQeYvGHA.1292@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

>> Is there a way to ask the chart control to resize itself to "fit" so that

>> the full data table is shown and all columns of a graph?

>>

>> Thanks

>> Mark

>>

>

>

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