ChartMaker joins revSelect
Another fine addon brings more functionality to your programming

by Hugh Senior

Whether you need a quick chart for a web site, presentation or document, or full programmatic control within your software, ChartMaker from The Flexible Learning Company may be a solution. And it's free to try for 30 days from the RevSelect store.

Released as a library for Rev with example playground stacks at 3 levels of complexity to investigate, you also get a fully featured point and click Utility Wizard. The utility not only builds charts for you, but can also give you the required syntax so you can do it yourself; can instantly change the display by tweaking the checkbox options; can archive charts and chart definitions; and can even list thumbnails for you to restore old charts. All in all a fairly impressive set of features...

What about applying ChartMaker yourself in your own work?

The learning curve is gentle especially as the utility can generate the syntax for you and you have a range of unlocked playground stacks to investigate. Hyperlinked documentation is built in for quick reference to all the commands, each with a set of examples, pre-scripted solutions are provided, and there is full assistance with using ChartMaker in your standalone application if you need it.

ChartMaker can be a powerful tool when required, supporting chart transposition (chart 'flipping'), data subset selection, and changing value constants in formulae, pie, ring, bar or column charts that can be quickly updated for dynamic data modelling presentations and 'moving charts'. Charts no longer have to be boring!

These screenshots are taken from the un-locked playground stacks to demonstrate some of ChartMaker's abilities. Color schemes, layouts and presentational attributes can all be changed, of course...

So whether you are new to Rev or an experienced scripter, ChartMaker has something to offer you. It is available from the RevSelect store, is modestly priced, and is royalty free for personal and commercial use.

ChartMaker is produced by The Flexible Learning Company, and is available from the RunRev Store.

About the Author Hugh Senior is an educationalist, software architect and author of The Scripter's Scrapbook.