The SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX enables you to embed interactive graphs in Web pages and OLE documents (in Microsoft Office products). When the graph is displayed, you can point-and-click to rotate, change, or further investigate the graph. The plan for future releases of the control is to allow you to save these changes back to your SAS/GRAPH code so that a modified graph can be regenerated any time the original data are updated, but that capability has not yet been implemented.

Note: Although there are numerous ways to generate the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX, these Web pages focus on how to generate the control in a SAS/GRAPH program.

Beginning in Version 8 of The SAS System, the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX supports the following graph types: Bar charts Pie charts Area plots Box-and-Whisker plots Bubble plots Contour plots High-Low plots Line plots Regression plots Scatter plots Standard Deviation plots Surface plots Maps

Software Requirements
SAS/GRAPH Features that are Supported by the ACTIVEX Driver

Installing the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX
Using SAS/GRAPH to Generate Client Graphs for ActiveX or Java

Using the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX

Software Requirements for the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX

The SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX is available in the Windows NT operating environment, or in Windows 95 or later.

To generate an SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX, you can:

• Write a SAS/GRAPH program that specifies DEVICE=ACTIVEX on a GOPTIONS statement and uses the Output Delivery System (ODS) to generate HTML output from procedures GCHART, GCONTOUR, GMAP, GPLOT, or G3D. This is the only method discussed in these Web pages.
• Export the control from Graph-N-Go, which is delivered with SAS/GRAPH. To start Graph-N-Go, use any SAS window to choose Solutions->Reporting->Graph-N-Go. Application help is available from the main window's Help menu.
• Export the control from Enterprise Guide. Contact the SAS Sales department for information about Enterprise Guide.
• Use the SAS/IntrNet DS2GRAF macro to generate the control. This is an HTML Formatting Tool that creates the HTML page and parameter information necessary for you to use the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX. The generator requires the 1.2 HTML Formatting Tools and SAS/GRAPH software. For information, see The GraphApplet HTML Generator. (In Version 7.01 of The SAS System, the DS2GRAF macro could only be used to generate an HTML page for use with the GraphApplet for Java. Beginning in Version 8, the macro can also generate an HTML page for use with the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX. For continuity with previous releases of SAS IntrNet, the Web pages continue to refer to the tool as the GraphApplet HTML Generator.)

The SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX is rendered by JavaScript code in an HTML file. To view an ActiveX control on the Web, you need

• Windows NT, or Windows 95, 98 or later operating environment
• Approximately 7 Meg of disk space to complete installation of the control
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later.

SAS/GRAPH Features that are Supported by the ACTIVEX Driver

SAS/GRAPH Technical Support publishes Technical Note TS-602, which contains current information on the ACTIVEX device driver's support for SAS/GRAPH statements and options. That information includes:

• What statements and options are supported by the ACTIVEX driver that are not supported by other SAS/GRAPH drivers
• What statements and options are not fully supported by the ACTIVEX driver (or work differently than they work with other SAS/GRAPH drivers)
• What statements and options are not supported by the ACTIVEX driver.

To access that information, search for Technical Note TS-602 on the SAS Institute Technical Support Web site.