Chart -> right click menu -> save as How to save as JP

bkieser · Post by **bkieser** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:11 pm

I know that programmatically we can save as JPG as well as PNG, but how to we enable this in the right-click menu (save as) option in chart? ATM it only allows for PNG.

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:21 pm

Are you sure you want JPEG? It is a horrible (lossy) format for charts.

If you really want it, you'll need to subclass ChartPanel, and override the createPopupMenu() and doSaveAs() methods. It's not that difficult, but still a little more involved than it should be (it would be nice to have ChartPanel support some kind of "plugin" for supported image formats).

bkieser · Post by **bkieser** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:36 pm

Thanks Dave. I personally would hate to not use PNG but the concern raised by the testers is that M$ is very bad at supporting PNG.

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:44 pm

It is a long time since I used Internet Explorer, but if I recall the main problem is that it doesn't fully support transparency in PNG files. You can probably avoid that issue with your charts.