TeeChart Pro ActiveX is the complete charting and graphing tool for all your business, scientific, engineering and financial Charting needs!

TeeChart Pro ActiveX offers hundreds of Graph styles in 2D and 3D, 33 mathematical and statistical Functions for you to choose from together with an unlimited number of axes and 17 toolbox components.

Use the full power of the TeeChart ActiveX Control on the server: Database enabled and with all export formats for use in your ASP, ISAPI, CGI or MTS application. Direct stream output as a browser independent format or the lightweight AX client control for AX aware Browsers, with a fully navigable, event driven Chart to work interactively with server sourced data.

Powerful and complete editor dialogs for almost every component and sub-component are incorporated, allowing you to quickly design complex charting applications. The chart editor is further enhanced by the TeeCommander component (a toolbar with charting specific buttons) which provides one-click access to TeeChart editors and common features. These editors are available both at design-time and also at run-time.

Help and support for TeeChart Pro ActiveX are readily accessible through the extensive technical resources available to you.

Environments include Visual Studio .Net, COM ActiveX Containers, IIS (Internet Information Server) and ASP, Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++,Internet Explorer, ODBC and ADO, Delphi, C++ Builder and other ActiveX compatible programming environments.

 

Main Features

 

TeeChart Pro offers hundreds of Graph styles in 2D and 3D, 33 mathematical and statistical Functions for you to choose from together with an unlimited number of axes and 17 toolbox components.

 

Server and Client components

Use the full power of the TeeChart ActiveX Control on the server: Database enabled and with all export formats for use in your ASP, ISAPI, CGI or MTS application. Direct stream output as a browser independent format or the lightweight AX client control for AX aware Browsers, with a fully navigable, event driven Chart to work interactively with server sourced data.

 

ASP/IIS

Now even stronger support for ASP ! Export formats include: JPEG, GIF, PNG, EPS, PDF, Native Tee, BMP, WMF, EMF and, of course, live Charts on the browser with the tab. Charts may be streamed directly to the browser to avoid maintenance of temporary files. It includes extensive code examples to guide the way.

 

ADO

Inbuilt support for Microsoft’s ActiveX Data Objects. Plug in to external Recordsets or create them with the Chart Editor.

 

Fast speed and small memory size consumption.

TeeChart graphical code speaks directly to Windows GDI API. Data is stored in dynamic arrays that are very closely mapped to memory which makes access and modifying the arrays almost as fast as the computer processor. The code is streamlined as much as possible to increase internal speed, especially when re-drawing.

 

Easy to use at design and run-time.

TeeChart includes powerful and complete editor dialogs, for almost every component and sub-component. These editors are available at design-time and also at run-time. The TeeCommander component (a toolbar with charting specific buttons) provides one-click access to TeeChart editors and common features.

 

Huge documentation and examples.

The help file and documentation include a reference guide, a user guide, tutorials with detailed "how to" explanations, end-user help and a comprehensive example project (with complete sources) that contains 376 forms. Pressing F1 gives context help for almost all screens and source code elements.

 

Translations into several languages.

Version 6 is available in a variety of languages. The multi-language version offers change of language on the fly!

 

TeeChart Pro VCL v8 has:

 

·         30 new units

·         72 new classes

·         183 new properties and methods in existing classes

 

New features include:

 

General Chart

 

·         9 new Series Types (now 57 Series types in 2D and 3D)

·         3 new Function Types (now 42 Function types)

·         14 new Tools (now 44 Chart Tools)

·         5 new Palette components (now 30 components + TeeTree)

·         25 new Image filters to enhance all or parts of your Charts

 

Specifications

Versatility

 

·         32-bit ActiveX component for Visual Studio .Net, Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual Studio 6, IIS / ASP,

·         Powerbuilder and many other Windows COM aware programming environments.

·         Data aware - Direct access to ADO data sources

·         Direct access to URL addressable Charts

·         Extended ASP support with "stream to browser" Chart export

·         Export as picture to JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, SVG, PDF, EPS, VML and WMF/EMF formats.

·         Export data to HTML, XML, Text, CSV and Excel formats

·         Fully scriptable under Internet Explorer using VBScript or JavaScript

·         Supports VBA and ASP (Active Server Pages)

·         Numerous new features to facilitate web charting, ASP, etc.

·         Royalty free in compiled desktop applications

·         Custom printing

·         Project Upgrade utility from previous TeeChart versions

 

Chart Characteristics

 

·         22 Palette components including ChartGrid, Navigators, Web source and Control Bar

·         43 Chart Tool components

·         53 Chart styles (in 2D and 3D plus multiple combinations)

·         40 mathematical functions

·         Run-time Editor, Print Preview, Gallery dialogs

·         10 Chart Tool components for additional functionality, like dragging series marks, annotation objects, cursors and manual trend lines, coloring bands, etc

·         25 Chart image filters

·         2D, 3D plus OpenGL 3D

·         Direct high-speed, array add of data to Chart

·         Zoom, scroll and real time

·         Custom drawing

·         Extensive demos

·         Design time integrated Chart and Series editor

·         Online help

·         Electronic reference (Online Winhelp and Compiled HTML tutorials)

·         Extended Statistical functions

·         Extensive demo code

·         Runtime Chart Data Grid and Navigator

·         Runtime Chart Editor and Print Previewer

·         Runtime Editor and Previewer Form Panels

·         Runtime Series List Box and TeeCommander control bar

·         Runtime Chart Page Navigator

·         And much more

 

 License Agreement

 

TeeChart Pro ActiveX version is royalty free for use in compiled applications only. That means that you may distribute your programs compiled with TeeChart incurring no royalty fee. You may not distribute TeeChart compiled classes to enable its use as a development tool or to create software programs. Please refer to Steema Software for any special requirements you may have.

 

 Disclaimer

 

The Author cannot and does not guarantee that any functions contained in the Software will meet your requirements, or that its operations will be error free. The entire risk as to the Software performance or quality, or both, is solely with the user and not the Author. You assume responsibility for the selection of the component to achieve your intended results, and for the installation, use, and results obtained from the Software. The Author makes no warranty, either implied or expressed, including with-out limitation any warranty with respect to this Software documented here, its quality, performance, or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the Author be liable to you for damages, whether direct or indirect, incidental, special, or consequential arising out the use of or any defect in the Software, even if the Author has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party. All other warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are expressly excluded.

  

A closer Look

 

"...you may distribute your programs compiled with TeeChart code incurring no royalty fee..."

  

 What license do I need?

 

The TeeChart Pro Developer license permits one developer to develop with TeeChart Pro. A TeeChart Pro Web-Server run-time license is required only for a Server publishing access to a scripted Charting application, ie. TeeChart scriptable via an ASP script, DLL, ActiveX Usercontrol or equivalent server module. A webserver license is not required if the server only provides Codebase access for downloading the TeeChart Control.

  

Applied compiled application scenario

 

The license allows the inclusion of the teechart.ocx file (and user help) with a compiled application. The conditions of license do not permit that TeeChart classes/properties/methods are made available in an application that may be used to further program with those classes. That type of application would be considered a 'development' tool (rather like Visual Basic itself, or Visual C++) and users of that application would be considered TeeChart developers and be thus subject to require a TeeChart developer license. An application compiled as a DLL with access to TeeChart properties would be an example of an application requiring TeeChart licensing when distributed. If that DLL is a server module only used for a web based application see the section below "Web server licenses".

  

Applied Web browser scenario

 

Clients using the Control served by a Web Server (via Codebase or similar) are not subject to purchase of a TeeChart license depending on the condition of use described here. In the case of a web browser application for which the TeeChart component is included as a clientside control (with OBJECT Codebase or similar) it is not possible to physically control 'application on-developability' as the TeeChart component is inherently an API that could be scripted or 'on-developed with' in a browser page. We rely on the application developer to make it clear to his/her clientbase that the Control may only be used within the confines of his/her application. Any further scripting with the TeeChart Component would require a developer license by the scripter.

  

Web server runtime licenses

 

A TeeChart Web Server license is required for each web server serving the Control with a serverside scriptable module (eg. ASP, ISAPI DLL, VB Usercontrol). We recognise that there are some technical advantages to using a compiled UserControl as an ActiveX Control or DLL housing the TeeChart Control serverside rather than use of ASP (namely availibility of TeeChart events serverside). For this specific use of TeeChart we treat the compiled Control, when housing a Server based process only, as eligible for a Web Server runtime license and exempt from any additional royalties beyond the basic requirements already outlined in this section. Web Server licenses are available as a separate product to the Developer license, available only to licensees of at least one registered Developer license.

 

Summary

Assumes ownership of at least 1 developer license by licensee

Licensing applies to web server installations of the licensee's application only

Requires one license per web server housing the licensee's application

Intended that development of scripting of the TeeChart module is restricted to the bounds of the licensee's application

The TeeChart Control may be made available (ie. as codebase) for distribution to unlimited client browsers

Clients (ie. browser locations) or servers where Charting code is on-developed should own a developer license

 

Controlling usage of distributed TeeChart ocx files

 

TeeChart does not include .LIC files to control distribution and neither is there a way to control usage by an installed client in different development environments. We rely on the developer / distributor of a Charting application informing his / her customer base. The installed client should be made aware that any other development using the TeeChart Control requires a developer license and, if on-development is the case, non-ownership of such a license would be an infringement of the TeeChart licensing agreement even if the Control has been prior installed for use with a license compliant compiled application.

  

Pure Charting application

 

The license does not permit the distribution of a Control that is a pure Charting control by its nature and may be deemed as competing directly in the same market as TeeChart. The licensors of TeeChart reserve the right of interpretation.