This example shows how to create a simple pie chart with a Static data series.

The Chart Control can be used to create charts that display information, such as stock values or trend lines, in a UX Component.

The Google visualization libraries offer an alternative to creating and displaying charts in a UX Component.

Page links relating to the Mobile Component.

Alpha Anywhere includes a powerful built-in charting engine that uses the charting capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework 4. You can program the charting engine directly using the API described on this page, or create charts in a builder, described at Chart Control. Using the API gives you the maximum amount of flexibility, but using the builder you can produce most commonly-used charts quickly and easily.

The Chart Control is used by several other components and subsystems: the Web Chart Component, Reports, the Chart Alternate View, and desktop Forms. This article explains the common functionality provided by the Chart Control Genie. Charting is built into the Dialog Component (called the UX component in V12 and above) and into Reports.

UX component methods for manipulating chart controls.

Perform some action on a Chart control (e.g. refresh the chart, export to PDF, etc.)

You can dynamically change certain chart properties at run-time to alter the chart appearance.

It is easy to use Google Charts in a UX component by simply copying code from the Google Charts API documentation. However, in all of the example in the Google Chart API documentation, the data plotted by the chart is static (i.e. it is hard coded into the Javascript).