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RiverSoftAVG Charting Component Suite

The RiverSoftAVG Charting Component Suite (RCCS) for Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (Win32 and .NET) is a free (for non-commercial use) with SOURCE charting Suite for adding charts and graphs to your programs.

Key Benefits

	100% Source Code
	For Win32 and VCL.NET
	100% Managed Code in .NET
	Chart Types: Area, Arrow, Bar, Line, Pie, Point, Shape, Graph (Flowchart), Equalizer, and Guides
	Data-Aware Chart Types
	Avoids TeeChart conflicts when you distribute components that use charts and having a conflict between TeeChart Pro and the version of TeeChart that came with Delphi
	FREE for use in your non-commercial applications. A commercial license is available by one-time purchase (upgrades are free) or by submitting an accepted software component to be included into the RiverSoftAVG Charting Component Suite (see Licensing for details)
	Design-time definition of chart values
	Less confusing and programmer error prone
	Easily Extensible
	Zoom, Pan, and Select Chart Values
	Change Visibility and Selected for each chart value (e.g., Hide a pie slice in a pie chart or react to the user selecting different points in a chart)
	Point Chart can display images in the point
	Shape Chart can display multiple shapes, with images

See the RCCS Version History page for full details on what has changed.

License

Please see the License.rtf in the distribution for details. In brief, RCCS is FREE with source code for non-commercial uses. A commercial license is available for royalty free use by one-time purchase (upgrades are free), included with your purchase of IECS v2.7, or by submitting an accepted software component to be included into the RiverSoftAVG Charting Component Suite.

Images

Sample images from the Charting Component Suite:

Download

You can download the RCCS here or from the Downloads page.

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Order

FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE. To order a commercial use license, please go to the Order page. NOTE: A commercial license is included with purchase of IECS v2.7.

Why should you use RCCS over TeeChart?

Quite honestly, TeeChart Pro is more powerful (more chart types). The problems with TeeChart are:

TeeChart Pro version is more expensive and you pay for each upgrade. RCCS is a one-time fee for commercial use (free upgrades) or free otherwise.
The TeeChart that comes with Delphi doesn't seem to be for VCL.NET. RCCS is for both Win32 and VCL.NET.
Distributing components that use TeeChart can be painful because a) compiling with Delphi TeeChart caused problems for TeeChart Pro owners, b) there was no VCL.NET version for people who hadn't bought TeeChart, and c) you couldn't give your users the source. RCCS has none of these problems.
TeeChart has, in our opinion, a confusing and error-prone design (and this was especially a problem if you didn't have the source). This is not necessarily entirely Steema's fault because they designed TeeChart so long ago (probably before they knew component design very well) and now they are stuck with it for backwards compatibility. But it is something to deal with. The initial learning curve for run-time manipulation of TeeChart was no fun :-)

For most people, TeeChart will be just fine. We are not trying to make money on the RCCS. It was designed for our needs and we beefed it up to be useful for others. We only want a small one-time licensing fee (or code contribution) if someone is going to make money using the RCCS. On the other hand, the RCCS contains some more subtle improvements over TeeChart such as multiple shapes per shape chart, images in point charts, etc. It is also ridiculously easy to create new chart types (series in TeeChart-Speak) with RCCS. We will be improving the suite, but we are hoping (and prefer) that users contribute and help RCCS grow for everyone.