ChartMgr Object

The ChartMgr object provides an interface for creating charts.

Note: The ChartMgr object is for Windows™ only.

You can use this object to write external applications to execute charts defined in the HCL Compass workspace. You can also modify the properties of this object to set the attributes of the chart.

  1. Verify that the Workspace object is associated with a Session object.
  2. Call the GetChartMgr method of the Workspace Object.
  3. Execute a query by calling the ResultSet object's Execute method.
  4. Specify the data to use for the chart by calling the SetResultSet method and specifying a ResultSet object containing the data your query generated.
  5. Specify the chart to use in creating the image and generate the image.
Note: To generate a JPEG image, call the MakeJPEG method. To generate a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image, call the MakePNG method.