Database Charting Deleting Chart Style

[tome10]

I realized today that if you select the very last chartstyle in the drop down you get a delete chartstyle button. So now that I figured that out after a couple of years of fumbling around, how do I delete chart styles up in the list? I see that the chartstyles in the drop down are numbered sequentially, and I think you've told me that i'd have to edit the ini file to delete earlier entries, and rename the ones that need to stay, but I really can't remember. So do I have the edit the ini file?

[jon00]

Not easy at all because all your charts are referenced to the specific chartstyle reference number in the list. I suppose what you should be doing is to reuse the ones marked for deletion rather than starting a fresh style.

[tome10]

I think my problem is that I 'lose' the chart. I'll be working on getting things to report right, but I end up changing something that messes up the chart so bad that it doesn't display any longer, and I can't figure out how to re-establish the graph, so I have to start over. I've been at this all day, trying to build this chart, and about an hour ago the chart stopped displaying. If I choose a canned line chart it shows up. So when this happens I 'start from scratch'. Any ideas what I've done wrong? Maybe its bad data?

[jon00]

I'm really not sure what you have done so difficult to advise. What you can do to 'start-over' for a style is to make a note of the chart style reference (to the left of the drop-down i.e. [Chartstyle45]), for the one that is working good/styled correctly and the one you wish to start-over. Lets call [Chartstyle22] as the working style and [Chartstyle45] as the one you wish to start-over.

Then open up Jon00DBChartingStyle.ini (Config folder) using a text editor. Search for [Chartstyle22] and copy all entries below for that section. Then search for [Chartstyle45] and delete all entries under that section. Finally paste the copied entries from [Chartstyle22] under [Chartstyle45] and save the file.