Important Notes for All Users

Installing your application on Win95/98 systems

When your application that uses FlowChartX is ready for shipping to the end users, you would probably want to make a setup program for it. If your software is intended to run on Win9X systems, the setup program should install the Microsoft Layer for Unicode before registering the FlowChartX control dll. Check the Unicode Support section for more information.

Setting different fonts of diagram objects

By default new diagram objects - boxes, arrows and tables - have their font property set to null (Nothing in Visual Basic). When an object's font is null, the flowchart's Font property is used for rendering the object's text. Thus, every diagram object shares a single font with all others, until its font is initialized with a new OLE font object. The implication here is that you can't access object's font properties, before the font itself is set. For example, the following line will cause a runtime error, unless the box' font was initially set (using the Set statement in VB, OleCreateFontIndirect in C, etc):

VB

fc.ActiveBox.Font.Bold = True