Introduction

To install the Flipper Graph Control run Flipper installation file from the floppy or from your hard disk. The installation program make sure you have all the proper files and the proper versions for this version of the OCX. We will not overwrite a later version of the dll's you may have installed.

To uninstall the Flipper Graph Control, run the unFlpGrf.exe that was added to you system at installation time.

The Flipper Graph Control is an OCX that works with any program that can load ActiveX and OLE OCX servers. We have focused our documentation and examples on three mainstream products - Visual Basic, Delphi, and Visual FoxPro. These are not the only programs we work with, but these are the programs in which we have written and tested our examples.

The following files are installed in subdirectories under the main directory where you installed the Flipper Graph Control - the default location is in \Window\Flipper or \WinNT\Flipper. The FlpGrf.Ocx is added to your registry at installation so the various software knows where to find the FlpGrf.Ocx (Flipper Graph Control).

Help files:

FlpGrf.hlp - Help file you are reading now.

FlpGrf.cnt - Help contents file.

Flipper Graph Control

FlpGrf.Lic - License file required if you wish to work in design mode.

FlpGrf.ocx - Flipper Graph Control code.

Uninstall.exe - Remove the Flipper Graph Control from your computer.

Microsoft Files (update to the latest version on your system)

msvcrt.dll

msvcrt40.dll

msvcirt.dll

olepro32.dll

Example Files (load the project file and run the form to view the example)

Section1
Example code developed in section 1 of the tutorial. This project shows you how to produce 2D, 2.5D, and 3D XY charts, adding titles, manually scaling graphs, setting legends, linear regression, adding a second Y axis, missing values, log scales, and saving, loading, and printing the graph.

Section2
Example code developed in section 2 of the tutorial. This project covers Pie Charts.

Section3
Example code developed in section 3 of the tutorial. This project covers Bubble Charts.

Section4
Example code developed in section 4 of the tutorial. This project covers Spider Charts.

Section5
Example code developed in section 5 of the tutorial. This project covers XYZ Charts.

Section6
Example code developed in section 6 of the tutorial. This project covers placing other objects on the view and using the mouse to find various objects including graph data.

PiePie
Demonstrates displaying two pie charts on a single control, adding a legend, and other modifying other properties to fine tune the pie chart on the printer and saving the an image.

Image
Demonstrates the properties that can be set to produce a high quality bitmap image.

Legend
Demonstrates the properties that can be applied the place and enhance the appearance of a legend for your chart.

DrillDown
Demonstrates methods for drilling down into data to see a second more detailed graph.

Zoom
Demonstrates zooming into data with the mouse. Also log charts.

Last modified on: Friday, August 16, 2002