Area in the back wall of the gantt chart

THoMaSiN · Post by **THoMaSiN** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:34 am

Hello,

I'm trying to display an area chart in the back wall of the gantt chart (3D), is that at all possible? and if it is, is there an example I can look at?

Also another question, each gantt chart "box" has a projection on the background, can I control the color/transparency of that projection ?

thanks.

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:43 am

Hi THoMaSiN,

I'm trying to display an area chart in the back wall of the gantt chart (3D), is that at all possible? and if it is, is there an example I can look at?

I can think of 2 options here:

1. If you need a static image create an area chart as desired, export it to an image and use it as backwall's image.

2. If series need to be dynamic, create an internal chart (not visible in your applications), export it to an image and use the image as backwall's image too.

Also another question, each gantt chart "box" has a projection on the background, can I control the color/transparency of that projection ?

Sorry but I don't understand what do you mean exactly. Could you please send us an image of what you mean?

You can either post your files at news://www.steema.net/steema.public.attachments newsgroup or at our upload page.

Thanks in advance.

THoMaSiN · Post by **THoMaSiN** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:01 am

The file is called gantt-example-steema.bmp and it has marked the area I'm referring to, the "3d part" of each gantt bar.

THoMaSiN · Post by **THoMaSiN** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:02 am

Another question: (sry) Does the steema Active X component let the user play with the gantt bars and move them around?

Thanks.

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:10 am

Hi THoMaSiN,

The file is called gantt-example-steema.bmp and it has marked the area I'm referring to, the "3d part" of each gantt bar.

Thanks for the image.

You can enable or disable this using Pointer's Dark3D property:

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			gantt1.Pointer.Dark3D = false;

However, you can't set specific brush properties for this area you can only set brush properties for the full pointer (entire bar).

Another question: (sry) Does the steema Active X component let the user play with the gantt bars and move them around?

TeeChart Pro v8 ActiveX lets users do with gantt series the same as you can do with TeeChart for .NET v3. Are you looking for any specific functionality?

Thanks in advance.

THoMaSiN · Post by **THoMaSiN** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:15 am

Yeah, Basically my customers request to be able to modify the gantt as they please and when they are happy with it, probably just click on commit and have those changes in the database ...

But I don't have experience using your gantt component for .NET, this my first time with steema. Do you have a guide on how to implement functionality for gantt charts (if I can offer bette UI experience we wouldn't have any problem in upgrading hte licenses to active X, I just need to justify it)? or just looking at any example (a little more elaborated than the asp exaples, which i understand is just to show web-specific implementation)?

Thanks.

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:28 am

Hi THoMaSiN,

Ok, thanks for the information. In web applications you can use the ActiveX version as a "live" object while the .NET version is rendered at the server and sent as an image to the client so in that scenario you can achieve a bigger level of interaction using TeeChart Pro v8 ActiveX.

We don't have any specific demo of that. However, I strongly recommend you to have a look at the ActiveX's fully functional evaluation version available at http://www.steema.com/downloads/form_ax_eval.html

This includes the features demo with some gantt examples. Using TeeChart ActiveX you could also use the GanttDrag tool in web applications.

Hope this helps!