Archive for November, 2009

Use the library with Windows Forms

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Let me remind you that the graphic library was specially designed for WPF applications, but we can do a little trick to use it with Windows Forms applications or even in ASP webpages.

For using it in a Windows Forms project, for starters we need to do the same basic steps as in the previous post How to integrate the library.

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Can I use the free library for freelancing applications?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Sure, the free charting library is royalty free and you can do whatever you want with it or distribute it in your applications, as long as you don’t request money solely on the library itself.

Do I need to register the demo version?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

No.

As you have noticed, there are 2 functions in GlobalTools: setRegisteredEmail and setLicenseNO. These functions apply only to clients who bought the full version of the software.
If you have the demo version, you don’t need to do any changes or assigments.

How to save a picture from the canvas for viewing it later?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Just use the GlobalTools class from our package and call the ExportToPng function. Supposing you have drawn the desired graph in the Canvas, all you need to do now in order to save it locally as a .png picture will be to use this line of code:

' save the image
SoftwareGFX_Library.GlobalTools.ExportToPng("chart_sample.png", Canvas1)

Can I use this library on Mac or Linux?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We are afraid not. We are doing our best possible efforts to implement compatible versions with Mac and Linux. Unfortunately a release date is unknown.