ChartLive is a free software for scientific and business applications.  It was designed to convert your data flows into well-designed chart images.  With ChartLive you can insert charts in your applications, reports, presentations and web publications, including frequently updated charts such as stock quotes, voting results, server statistics, etc.  Its full name "Chart LIbrary and Visual Environment" emphasizes the important possibility to generate live charts.  ChartLive is actively developed project, so it is truly live.

ChartLive understands its own original input data format named CHD, CHart Description.  CHD is like to usual tab-delimeted text, reached by chart configuration commands.  CHD is strictly described in the documentation.

ChartLive generates many types of charts

• 2D-charts with points, lines and filled regions, examples:  (A), (B), (C)
• 2D-charts with broken horizontal axis, for example many-day charts excluding holidays, example:   (A)
• Several charts at the same slide with automatic axes synchronization, example: (A)
• Stock charts with automatic calculation of interval histograms or Japanese candlesticks, examples:   (A), (B)
• Both vertical and horizontal histograms
• Pie charts
• Tree-like schemes, example:   (A)
• 3D-charts with points, trajectories, ribbons and figures, examples: (A), (B)
• 3D-surfaces

ChartLive provides 4 ways of input data receiving

• The text file of CHD format
• The flow of text lines, including CHD commands, via API function CL_DataLine
• The flow of mixed text-numerical data via API function CL_DataVector
• The external data matrix accessible via API function CL_DataMatrix

ChartLive supports various output contexts

• Window, printer or any other device having its own device context (HDC)
• The WMF or EMF file
• The GIF file

ChartLive offers three levels of usage

• The ChartLib library

Contains the basic API for all other ChartLive components.  Most convenient for on-line gifs generation in dynamic Web-sites.  This level requires programming.
• The TSliChart component

Extends basic features of ChartLib for Delphi programmers. Makes interactive chart browsing easy in your applications.
• The chdView and chdConv utilities

The chdView program allows you to browse CHD files in window. The chdConv is a command line utility that coverts CHD files into GIF, BMP and EMF files. This level of usage does not require programming at all.

ChartLive distributive contains

• The dynamic link library ChartLib.dll. You must move it manually to windows system directory
• The chdView utility - interactive CHD files viewer
• The chdConv command line utility to convert CHD files into GIF, BMP and EMF graphic formats
• CHD files examples
• Documentation
• The source code of TSliChart component
• The demo applications for Visual C++ and Delphi with source codes, including chdView and chdConv utilities