Generating Output for ActiveX

The SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX displays interactive charts , maps, and plots. The following table lists the various ways that you can deliver ActiveX output to your audience.

Table 10.2: Primary Delivery Choices for ActiveX Output

Application	ODS Statement	Output File
Internet Explorer	ODS HTML	HTML
Microsoft Word	ODS RTF	Rich text format
Adobe Acrobat Reader	ODS PDF	Portable document format
Ghostview, etc.	ODS PSL	PostScript Format

Table 10.1 on page 388 lists the SAS/GRAPH procedures that generate output for ActiveX.

Follow these steps to generate a default Web presentation that runs the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX.

1. Close the ODS listing destination to conserve resources:

    ods listing close; 

2. Open an output file in ODS and optionally specify an ODS style:

    ods html file="  your_file.htm  "      style="banker"; 

3. Specify the ACTIVEX device driver and set other graphics options:

    goptions reset=all           device=activex           border; 

   For information on graph styles, see Using ODS Styles on page 488.

4. Specify a data set and run a procedure or procedures that are used by the ACTIVEX device driver (see Table 10.1 on page 388):

    proc gchart data=sashelp.class;     vbar height / group=age;  run;  quit; 

5. Close the HTML output file and reopen the ODS listing destination:

    ods html close;  ods listing; 

The preceding program structure assumes that your Web audience has installed the ActiveX Control in advance. For information on prompting new users to start the installation process, see Configuring Your Program to Prompt Users to Install the ActiveX Control on page 389. For further troubleshooting information, see Troubleshooting Web Output on page 579. For information on enhancing the default Web presentation, see Configuring Drill-Down Links with ACTIVEX on page 392 and Overview of ODS Enhancements for Web Output on page 487.

About Languages and Special Fonts in ActiveX

For international audiences, the ActiveX Control has a graphical user interface that can appear in the following languages: Chinese (simplified), Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. To display a translated graphical user interface, in general, Web-based ActiveX device drivers must use a language-specific operating environment and Web browser. This requires the all-languages version of the JRE. For further information, contact your SAS support consultant.

In the LABEL and SYMBOL statements, the Java applets enable the following markers: B, C (up triangle), M (club), N (heart), O (spade), P (diamond), U (square), and V (star). For a full list of the marker font that applies to these letters , see Figure 5.5 on page 87. Also enabled are the following symbols: D (diamond), H (circle), L (up triangle). For a full list of the special font, see Figure 5.8 on page 89.