CHARTIFY

This is the sight of the freeware Chartify tool for converting data into small useful
charts.

The tool is a on-the-fly chart processing tool. The tool is freeware, and the
current release 1.01 beta.

The tool outputs the charts in in the JPEG format. It doesn't support the GIF-format
due to the licensed GIF compression technique(LZW).


The currently supported chart types are:

1. Line chart
2. Area chart
3. Bar chart
4. 3D bar chart
5. 3D area chart
6. 3D line chart


User manual


The tool is to be started from within a DOS-shell, or from a system call from
within a tool supporting system calls. It could be Navision Financials by invoking
the SHELL command.

The Chartify tool needs the following parameters to run correctly(and all parameters must
have a value!):

Chartify (Datafile)
(Output)
(Items)
(Chart type)
(No. of datasets)
(Background color)
(Line color)
(Color dataset 1)
(Color dataset 2)
(Width of output file)
(Height of output file)


Explaination

(Datafile)
This is a sample of the datafile containing the source data to chart, and a small explaination
of it:

Sample file: data.txt
-----------------------------------------------
0.5 0.09 0.6 0.85 0.0 0.90 0.85 0.77 0.67 0.55
1.9 1.3 0.6 0.75 0.1 2.0- 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
Dr. Doolittle
Mr. Spock
The Adams Family
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
The Muppet Show
Cartoon Cartoons
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
The Smurphs
----------------------------------------------

The first line(starting with 0.5) is values for the first dataset
The second line(starting with 1.9) is values for the second dataset
The remaining lines are labels for each value pair of data. This is how
to write the data file for the chartify tool, and the structure must be
as the above. The current beta release only supports two sets of data per
label. Even if you don't want to use the second data set(second line) it
must contain values. You could set them all to zeroes or whatever.

(Output)
This is the output file name to make. In this case all file names must have the extension
of .gif(ex. output.gif, chart1.gif). Chartify doesn't make an output gif file, but instead
changes the extension to .jpg(output.jpg, chart1.jpg). The next release will only require the
extension .jpg.

(Items)
This is the number of values in the dataset. In the above datafile the value will be 10 items
per dataset.

(Chart Type)
The values for chart types are:

1. Line chart
2. Area chart
3. Bar chart
4. 3D bar chart
5. 3D area chart
6. 3D line chart

(No. of datasets)
The number of datasets. The current is a maximum of 2 datasets.

(Background color)
It is possible to choose between 551 different background colors. Please look at the enclosed file
colors.htm for further information on color numbers.

(Line color)
It is possible to choose between 551 different line colors. Please look at the enclosed file
colors.htm for further information on color numbers.

(Color dataset 1)
It is possible to choose between 551 different colors. Please look at the enclosed file
colors.htm for further information on color numbers.

(Color dataset 2)
It is possible to choose between 551 different backgroundcolors. Please look at the enclosed file
colors.htm for further information on color numbers.

(Width of output file)
Width of the output jpeg file.

(Height of output file)
Height of output jpeg file.


For samples on how to use Chartify, please take a look at the enclosed samples.htm.
Needed files to run Chartify
chartify.exe
batch1.exe
data.txt
rgb1.txt