Hi Syd,

Originally Posted by Syd Nicholson:
"How do I create a chart (say with Excell) and place this chart in an HTML page along with other HTML elements?

I need to derive a chart based on data from the AS/400, consruct in real time and display this to the user.

Is ActiveX and Excell a good choice, or are their other products available that would be more siutable for this task?"

you have several options...

a) ActiveX control (non-cross-browser!)
b) Java Applet
c) VML (non-cross-browser!)
d) Flash
e) SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, W3C standard)
f) DHTML (JavaScript; fx. Dojo (http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/night...st_engine.html) )

Hope this can help you on your way 
Best regards,

John Foldager
www.izone.dk
www.icebreakforum.org

Hi Syd;

One of the best soulutios I have used is a comination of making the chart data with XML and let a flash render the chart.

take a look at:

http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/index.php?menu=Gallery

This is by far the best in my opinion ...

Regards

Niels

I have not tried it yet, but you might want to take a look at FusionCharts Lite.
You can see it in action in the free iSeries Renaissance framework by CoralTree.

http://www.infosoftglobal.com/FusionCharts/Lite/
http://www.renaissanceframework.com/
http://www.renaissanceframework.com/demo_welcome.htm

Here is another simpler javascript-based librarythat I have tried.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici.../linegraph.htm