Hello Narcis,

Changing the following lines into
solves our problem, the reason remains unclear to me...


Regards, Jan

The function 'SaveChartToAMetafile' works fine under w2k or wxp but under w98 we get the following error. System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+. at System.Drawing.Imaging.Metafile..ctor(Stream stream, IntPtr referenceHdc, EmfType type, String description)...

Hello, Public Shared Function GetImage(ByVal chart As TChart) As Image Dim strm As New IO.MemoryStream With chart.Export.Image.Metafile .Enhanced = True .Width = chart.Width .Height = chart.Height .Save(strm) strm.Position = 0 End With Dim img As Image = Image.FromStream(strm) strm.Flush() Return im...

Hello, We export a tchart to a metaFile. Solid Lines look the way they should but other styles (like dot, dashdot or dashdotdot) are too big. Compared to a line with the same height and width it looks about twice as fat. When printed out or in preview mode it's almost impossible to see that the styl...

Thanks Narcis,

Uncommenting 'strm.Close() 'problematic line solved it.

Did you find the creason why you can't export to MetaFile under windows 98 already?

Regards, Jan

Yes we can create a metafile UNDER windows 98 using the .NET native methods. We only use area's and 'standard lines' (not dotted, because they look too fat/ugly anyway). This is a real problem for us, we are able to export to PNG under w98 (but the image looks too ugly, so we would like see this fix...

Under Windows 2000 and XP I can succesfully export a Tchart to an image using: Public Shared Function GetImage(ByVal chart As TChart) As Image Dim strm As New IO.MemoryStream With chart.Export.Image.Metafile .Enhanced = True .Width = chart.Width .Height = chart.Height .Save(strm) strm.Position = 0 E...

Saving to file.emf always creates a file with lengt=0, i can save the same chart to other formats succesfully (like png, bmp, jpg). I'm using Teechart Pro for Visual Studion.NET V1 runtime version : v1.1.4322, version: 1.1.1499.42325 '--> this works fine!! Public Shared Sub SavePNGImage(ByVal chart ...