Using 4D Chart in a plug-in window
 Using 4D Chart in a 4th Dimension form
 Hiding and showing 4D Chart features
 Creating a new document
 Opening an existing document
 Saving a document
 Setting the document size.

Using 4D Chart in a Plug-in Window

You can use 4D Chart in its own window. When used in its own window, 4D Chart operates as if it were a separate application.
When you open 4D Chart in a plug-in window, the window has its own menu bar. 4th Dimension’s menu bar remains at the top of the screen.

When you expand the window to full screen size by clicking the window’s zoom box, 4th Dimension’s menu bar remains at the top of the screen and 4D Chart’s menu bar remains within the 4D Chart window.

To generate and modify a graph in an external 4D Chart window, you have two possibilities:

 Call the Chart Wizard directly from the User mode of 4th Dimension. After it has been set up, the graph is displayed in a new external window,

 Open a blank 4D Chart window then use the menus and functions of the plug-in to create your graph.

Opening an External Window Displaying the Graph Directly

When you create a graph from the User mode of 4th Dimension, an external window is automatically opened to display it.

To create an external window displaying the graph directly:

1 Make sure that the current selection contains the records that you want to represent graphically.

2 Choose Charts... from the Tools menu of 4 th Dimension or click on the corresponding icon in the 4 th
Dimension toolbar. The Chart Wizard appears.

3 Set the parameters of your graph and click on OK. An external 4D Chart window is created to display the graph.
 

Opening a Blank 4D Chart External Window

To open 4D Chart in an external window:1 In the User environment, choose 4D Chart from the Tools menu.

A new 4D Chart document opens in an external window.

You can open additional 4D Chart windows by choosing 4D Chart again from the Tools menu. Opening several 4D Chart documents at the same time allows you to compare documents, copy and paste between documents, and move from one document to another simply by clicking on the appropriate window.

The titles of all 4D Chart windows appear at the bottom of the Window menu. You can bring any document to the front by choosing it from this menu.

When you save a document, its title bar displays the document name, plus the suffix “(CT)”, which distinguishes 4D Chart documents from documents created by other plug-ins.

You can close a plug-in window at any time by clicking the window’s control-menu box (on Windows) or the close box (on Macintosh).