Flash Art for Scatter Diagrams - Broken?

[Robert Ameeti]

At 10:08 AM -0800, 2/16/08, James Rea wrote:

>  > I have my Flash Art Pictures in the Flash Art Scrapbook. The Flash
>>  Art Chart Options dialog has the name of the Flash Art object and the
>>  graphic attribute icon does have the tiny flash art light bulb but
>>  the flash art is not being used on my Scatter Diagram. The point
>>  being used is a tiny cross hair.
>>
>>  The above is described on pg 1016 of Panorama Handbook but is not
>>  working for me. Is anyone out there making use of this and is it
>>  working in Panorama 5.5?
>
>There is an example file that comes with Panorama called "Experiment
>Charts" that uses this feature. I just tried it and it seems to work
>fine.

Yes it does seem to work fine. But ...

The significant different between the example and my testing was that 
the example referenced the field for pulling the flash art instead of 
being defined directly in the Flash Art Chart Options dialog.

I altered my test db to use a field and nothing changed. I then coped 
one of the Flash Art objects from the example Flash Art Scrapbook and 
renamed all of the records to display that new Scrap Art. Very odd 
but then I had ONE and ONLY ONE of my plotted points displaying the 
Red Triangle flash art. The rest were all still showing the tiny 
cross. The db has 16 records in it. I noticed that the first record 
had an X of 0 and a Y of 0. For some odd reason, I changed the X to 2 
for that first record and voila, all of the plotted points suddenly 
changed to the Red Triangle. I then changed it back to 0 and 
everything stayed with the Red Triangle.

More playing showed me that I could change one of the records Flash 
Art name and that changed that plotted point. If I then copied and 
pasted that value by using the up and down arrow to move to different 
records, no change was reflected in the chart. But if I opened a cell 
and closed that cell, voila, all of the plotted points that were 
supposed to be different got redrawn with the new art.

I went back into the chart and tried to have it pull the Flash Art 
directly with a named Flash Art object but they did not all change to 
that Flash Art. If I then opened a cell and closed it, they all got 
redrawn. Apparently I had been happy with my Flash Art Scrapbook and 
the continual opening, closing, and changing the Flash Art Options 
dialog just wasn't enough but I had to open an close a cell to get 
something to change on my chart.

>Off the top of my head I do seem to recall that there was a problem 
>with this feature in some of the 5.5 preview versions, but that it 
>was fixed.

Perhaps not.
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Robert Ameeti

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