ChartDraw

RISC OS software by Chris Johnson

Version 3.52


[ Introduction | Installation | Usage | Screenshots ]

[ Main index ]


Introduction

What does ChartDraw do?

ChartDraw is a means of producing bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. The charts can be saved as drawfiles for transfer to other presentation applications, or can be printed directly.

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Installation

For a new installation, simply drag and drop the ChartDraw application into the directory of your choice.

If you have a previous copy of ChartDraw you have two choices.


Using ChartDraw

ChartDraw is run in the usual way by double clicking on its icon. It will install on the icon bar.

The iconbar menu

The iconbar icon menu offers the following options.

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Help...  –  will launch the documentation (this file) in the default browser.

New  –  will open a new data input window, assuming the limit to open windows has not been reached (currently four input windows). The same action can be achieved by simply clicking with SELECT (the left mouse button) on the ChartDraw iconbar icon.

If the control key is held down when selecting from the menu, then a small dialogue will be opened instead. The same action can be achieved by simply clicking with ADJUST (the right mouse button) on the ChartDraw iconbar icon. This allows you to set the starting size of the data input window.

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See the page Data input for more details on data input.

Choices...  –  will open the application choices dialogue, A full description of the features available is given in the Choices page.

Quit  –  will remove ChartDraw from the iconbar and terminate the program. If there is any unsaved data then a warning will be issued, and the data can be saved or discarded as appropriate.

Screenshots

All the screen shots in these pages were obtained using Snapper, a versatile screen capture application.

Snapper is available from http://www.chris-johnson.org.uk/software/snap.html


These pages are best viewed in a CSS compliant browser. For RISC OS, Netsurf would be the browser of choice.

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ChartDraw is © Chris Johnson, 2014
Email:chris@chris-johnson.org.uk

This document last modified on 15th March 2014