Pie Charts

[John Yeagle]

Is there a FileMaker program that will generate a Pie Chart from my data? I found an old program called ChartMaker but I don't believe the program is currently supported.

Thanks, John

[SteveB]

Chartmaster is so old that the user had to chisel his own pie out of stone. I think your best bet is to send the data to Excel. Waves in Motion has a plugin that I think might do charting, but I don't know about pies.

[keshalyi]

Now... I did once help on a db that built a pie chart itself - basically what it did was it made a seperate database, with 360 records with two fields: a container and a label. Then, in filemaker, they built 360 teeny-weeny wedge shaped fields, and just pulled data from the other database to determine how many wedges to turn what colour, and then labeled the middle wedge of the range. I haven't the slightest idea how they made wedge-shaped container fields, but it sure was neat. Kudos to you if you can reproduce the effect. I know that they basically built a rectangle for each wedge, and then made rectangles to cover the part of the wedge they didn't want to show. But, its a boggler, really. I've got a headace already, from thinking about it, but hey, there you have it, if you REALLY want to do it in Filemaker

A) You have to be crazy

IT is, distantly, possible

[djgogi]

Try Brian Dunning's ChartMakerPro

Dj

[CobaltSky]

ChartMakerPro does a good job of producing a range of basic charts in native FMP (plus a lot of elbow grease). The price is not too daunting for Brian's 'kit'.

oAzium Charts is a plug-in which offers greater flexibility and sophistication (but at a price). Produces good crisp image output and covers a broader spectrum.

http://wmotion.com/all_charts.html

The zenith of charting for FileMaker Pro would have to be the xmCHART plug-in from X2Max - a vast, comprehesive range of charts and options, with better imaging (combining graphics and gradients etc) and more control than I've seen anywhere else.

http://www.x2max.com/english/products/xmCHART/info.html

All three will do pies