At last !!!
FoxCharts has just been pushed to Production release - Version 1.20.
The challenge has been really very big, due to all the possible variations that charts may have and all the correlations that each chart type has with another. In the last months the library has grown, and received lots of improvements.
Collaborators
This has been a fantastic experience to me. During these times I received lots of support from many foxers, that provided solutions, reported bugs, helped documenting, offered new samples, "impossible improvements", all these things that brought encouragement, and fuel to continue enhancing it.
The thing that makes me feel most proud is the great help that I received from people from all sides of the world. Below is a list with the names of people that offered some great support to FoxCharts. In advance, I'm sorry for the missing names.
Alex Yudin (Ukraine)
Augusto Minari (Brazil)
Bernard Bout (Australia)
Bo Durban (USA)
Borislav Borissov (Bulgaria)
Carlos Alloatti (Argentina)
Christof Wollenhaupt (Germany)
Demetrius Kandirys - Grego (Brazil)
Emerson Reed (Brazil)
Harry Lode (Cambodia)
Jim Nelson (USA)
Karl Schierman (Germany)
Klaus Hentschel (Germany)
Koen Piller (Holland)
Leandro Walfrans (Brazil)
Luis Maria Guayan (Argentina)
Mauricio Marques - Moshe (Brazil)
Matt Weinbender
Matt Slay (USA)
Paulo Henrique de Almeida (Brazil)
Peter Wagner (Brazil)
Ricardo Soares (Brazil)
Thiago Takehana (Brazil)
Yousfi Benameur (Algeria)
Some people deserve a special attention:
Bo Durban, for his help and support in the first steps, and for making it possible with GdiPlusX;
Jim Nelson, for his great help in some parts of codes, specially with the scales, Memberdata support, PEM editor special support, for testing, samples, support classes (VCD - visual chart designer) and documenting. For always being available, for a fantastic and continuous support. Thanks dude !;
Alex Yudin, for some great improvements and samples;
Ricardo Soares, for starting the help project;
Koen Piller, for his great and impressive support, testing every version of the classes, samples and HELP file with great patience in all details, for his support in forums;
... and all other people who have been testing the class, and have reported bugs, asked questions or improvements. THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
License
FoxCharts is a totally free and open source VFPX project, and it's under its license
Samples and Documentation
At this moment, FoxCharts brings 17 official chart types, that can be derived or adapted to generate other kinds. It's really very easy to use it. We have already some great documentation, based on a HELP file and a DOC file, explaining how to use it, full of images
The main FoxCharts file brings lots of samples as well, destinated to beginners and to advanced users. I hope to make some posts showing some very simple and easy ways to create your own charts.
You can download it directly from the VFPX website at CodePlex from this link, where you'll find also the HELP file and additional documentation, tutorials and a teaser video.
To begin, unzip the files, and run the file FoxChartsSamplesMain.Scx , that will fire the form below, that will help you to access all the available samples.
Prerequisites:
Visual FoxPro 9 (preferrably SP2 for a faster image rendering) and the GdiPlusX library from VFPX 
Main Features:
- Create good looking and modern charts in pure VFP
- No ActiveX components
- Easy to setup and customize
- Easy to save to disk or print - Save as EMF, resulting in perfect charts when printed in VFP reports
- Open Source
- Benefit from all the GdiPlusX drawing capabilities, allowing users to modify the charts the way they like.
- Explore all kinds of colors, solid colors, gradients, hatch brushes
- Random colors, color pallettes
- Customize scales
- Text Fonts
- Alignments
- Formatting
- Detach or hide interactively pie or doughnut slices
- Tooltips
- Draw legends inside shapes
- Customize side legends
- PEM Editor 5 Friendly
Samples:
Below are some screenshots of some charts that you can create very easilly using FoxCharts. Click on the images to get a full script to generate those charts. All you have to do is to download FoxCharts first, and make sure to choose the directory where FoxCharts.Vcx resides, when the PRG asks for that file.
Related Links
FoxCharts downloads
FoxCharts Info page at VFPX
FoxCharts Tools Info page at VFPX (by Jim Nelson)