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Certain applications allow interaction with another application via OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). Examples of such applications are Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. OLE allows the document of one application (the OLE server) to be placed (embedded) inside the document of another (the OLE container).

FindGraph  has been designed to act as COM (OLE) server. This means, that WINDOWS registers format (extension 'fgr') as 'FindGraph.Document'. FindGraphÆs  documents (plots) can thus be added to a container and edited from within container just as easily as if they were being directly edited from within FindGraph . This is beneficial if you want to prepare the report with Word (Excel) and to layout many FindGraphÆs  plots on a single page.

To embed the plot in the container (for example, Excel), follow these steps:

  1. Click the button Copy Plot  or select menu item <Edit><Copy Plot>.
  2. All plot will be put it on the Clipboard as OLE object.
  3. Open Excel.
  4. Click the button Paste  or select ExcelÆs menu item <Edit><Paste>.
  5. FindGraphÆs  plot will appear as embedded object.

To activate and edit the object, double click inside FindGraphÆs  window.  ExcelÆs menu and toolbar will been replaced by those of FindGraph , and the graph is ready for editing. To deactivate the object, and have ExcelÆs menus and toolbars revert to normal, left click anywhere inside Excel, but outside FindGraphÆs  window.


Notes

FindGraph  is shipped with  the program Crov.exe. It is the simple container of FindGraphÆs  and ExcelÆs objects . The program Crov.exe was designed to contain several plots on page of the format À4  for printing the report. Also some examples of usage of methods of automation are included.

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