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I am experiencing an error in a subroutine attempting to set the plotarea.width property of a chart.
The other dimensions also cause this error if I comment out the preceding line(s).
There is no ActiveChart, no selection, etc. The specific error message is this: "-2147467259 (80004005) Method 'Width' of object 'PlotArea' failed"
This is stumping me for several reasons:
In debug mode, F8 to step through the code the error does NOT occur.
AFAIK "width" is not a "method" but a "property" of the chart's plotarea, so even the error message is rather ambiguous.
Any thoughts? Here's as much code as I can share, the ChartSizeMedium subroutine in its entirety, and a dummy snippet to show you how I am establishing the chart and passing it to that sub which sets the size & some other properties prior to passing to another function which adds the series data to the chart.
Option Explicit
Private Sub EstablishChartObject()
Dim cObj as ChartObject
Set cObj = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
ChartSizeMedium cObj.Chart, "Integer", "Example Chart Title"
End Sub
Private Sub ChartSizeMedium(cht As Chart, NumType As String, Optional chtTitle As String)
'Subroutine to make a consistent size chart
Dim s As Long
With cht
'Add a chart title if one exists.
If Len(chtTitle) > 0 Then
.HasTitle = True
.chartTitle.Characters.Text = chtTitle
End If
'Create the default chart Legend
.HasLegend = True
With .Legend
.Position = xlTop
.Font.Size = 11
.Font.Bold = True
End With
'Format the axes
.Axes(xlValue).MajorGridlines.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
.Axes(xlValue).MinorGridlines.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
'Format the size of the chart
With .Parent
.Width = 740
.Height = 396
End With
With .PlotArea
.Width = 640 '<---- THIS LINE TRIGGERS THE ERROR
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End With
'Some charts start with more than one series container, so make sure they're gone:
With cht
Do Until .SeriesCollection.Count = 0
s = .SeriesCollection.Count
.SeriesCollection(s).Delete
Loop
End With
End Sub
UPDATE Dec 12, 2012
I remove all non-problematic code and use only the PlotArea with block, in the same routine, I have also tried setting the chart type (several values) and as shown in this example, manually adding one series of data prior to attempting to set the PlotArea dimensions, but the error persists:
Option Explicit
Private Sub EstablishChartObject2()
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Dim sh As Worksheet
Set sh = ActiveSheet
Dim srs As Series
Set cObj = sh.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
Set srs = cObj.Chart.SeriesCollection.NewSeries
srs.Values = "={1,3,5,7,4}"
cObj.Chart.ChartType = 57
With cObj.Chart.PlotArea
.Width = 100 '<---- THIS LINE TRIGGERS THE ERROR
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End Sub
i had a similar problem . And its definitely an excel issue (having 2013).
With .PlotArea
.Select 'err if delete this line of code
.Top = 0
.Left = 0
.width = 40
.Height = 40
End With
if you remove the .selectline, it will result in error on the next line.
note that i am not working with a <with selectiondo stuff>.
the .selectmakes it work, without using the selection, wich is obviously an excel bug (from previous versions?)
Two solutions that seem to be working, neither is really as "elegant" as I'd prefer (I was hoping there would be a way to do this with selecting the chart or any part of it).
Option 1 - Select the plot area and then deselect it. This seems to be the most reliable/efficient solution.
With .PlotArea
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
.Select
With Selection
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Activate
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
Option 2 - disable error-handling in loop (this followed from Doug's link). This doesn't seem to be a very reliable or efficient method, and although it seems to work, I know that within that loop it is failing once on each of the properties before it successfully sets them on a subsequent pass.
With .PlotArea
For pLoop = 1 To 5
On Error Resume Next
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
On Error GoTo 0
Next
End With
Hope your sheet and chart has the ability to get a width up to 640. If so try the explicit reference. Also suggest you to change width, height values to lower values and see how programme responds. Since you said, when you select it works,
that also means, your cht is wrapping the correct chart object - unless otherwise you selected the chart using ActiveChart.PlotArea.Width . Hence I guess explicit reference could do be a potential try out.
,
cht.PlotArea.Width = 640
cht.PlotArea.Height = 280
cht.PlotArea.Left = 30
cht.PlotArea.Top = 30
Further, check on Aspect Ratio lock or unlock. If none of these works, then add a chart into your sheet and use most simple chart formatting code to check on widht, height, left, top changes.
Update two
Let's try specifing chart type and setting up chart object in the second sub as well. I tried out in my end and it's working. Try the code with following changes.
Code:
Calling this sub from the button showed in the sheet.
Option Explicit
Public Sub EstablishChartObject()
Dim mySheet As Worksheet
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.StatusBar = "Chart is coming soon..."
Set mySheet = Sheets(2) '-- set according to yours
'-- create chart with some source data first, which you can change later
Set cObj = mySheet.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=400, Height:=200)
ChartSizeMedium cObj, "Integer", "Example Chart Title"
End Sub
'Subroutine to make a consistent size chart
Private Sub ChartSizeMedium(chtObj As ChartObject, NumType As String, _
Optional chtTitle As String)
Dim myChart As Chart
Dim s As Long
Set myChart = chtObj.Chart '-- specify chart type
myChart.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets(2).Range("B3:C12") '-- set to what you have
myChart.ChartType = xlXYScatterLines '-- set to the type you want
'and make sure to **use correct properties**
With myChart
If .HasTitle Then
.ChartTitle.Characters.Text = chtTitle
End If
'Create the default chart Legend
If .HasLegend Then
With .Legend
.Position = xlTop
.Font.Size = 11
.Font.Bold = True
End With
End If
'Format the axes
With .Axes(xlValue)
.HasMajorGridlines = False
End With
'Format the size of the chart
With .Parent
.Width = 400 '-- change to yours
.Height = 250 '-- change to yours
End With
With .PlotArea
.Width = 300 '-- change to yours
.Height = 180 '-- change to yours
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.StatusBar = "Chart is Here!"
End Sub
Otput:
Make sure to use correct properties for each chart type. Note that above code doesn't delete any left over, old charts from your sheet.
.MajoreGridlines.Format.Lines.Visible fails. So set the .MajorGridlines = False to make sure you do not want to show the gridlines.
Anything else you want to do can be done later. Just try with the changes to dimension initially.
Reference from : MSDN Gridlines property
I know this is old, and this solution seems bad, but it works. I only thought to do it as you mention that stepping through works.
Option Explicit
Sub chart()
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Dim sh As Worksheet
Set sh = ActiveSheet
Dim srs As Series
Set cObj = sh.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
cObj.chart.ChartType = 57
Set srs = cObj.chart.SeriesCollection.NewSeries
srs.Values = "={1,3,5,7,4}"
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:01") '<~~ Added This line
With cObj.chart.PlotArea
.Width = 100
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End Sub
EDIT: This seems to work for some chart types, but it was still failing for other chart types. I have continued to use the 5x loop with On Error Resume Next and that seems to be -- unfortunately -- the most "reliable" solution to-date.
Original: This is based on User2140261's suggested answer, above:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16041640/1467082
Since the question was initially posted, the application now resides in PowerPoint, so I cannot use the Applicaiton.Wait. I had some intermittent errors with a 1-second pause, and 3-seconds was too much of a pause, so I built the following error trap. The same idea could be used in Excel in conjunction with Application.Wait.
It was this block of code that was giving me fits, so I added this error handling in Powerpoint to mimic the Application.Wait.
RetryChartDimensions:
On Error GoTo ErrChartDimensions
With .PlotArea
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
End With
On Error GoTo 0
' More code
' more code
Exit Sub 'gracefully exit this subroutine before the error-handling.'
ErrChartDimensions:
Err.Clear
'Pause before setting the PlotArea dimensions:'
Dim wtTime As Double
Dim startTime As Long
'A maximum 3 second delay should be more than enough time.
If wtTime < 3 Then
wtTime = wtTime + 0.5
startTime = Timer
While Timer < startTime + wtTime
DoEvents
Wend
End If
Resume RetryChartDimensions
End Sub
I don't have enough reputation to add a comment, so using the above solutions I have fixed my problem with Pie Charts in VB.Net 2010 and Excel 2013. xlLine charts never caused a problem, but my code would crash when the same code was ran against an xlPie chart on Excel 2013 (All was fine on Excel 2007).
My now working code:
appExcel.Visible = False
xlchart_for_96_Well_Plate_Source = appExcel.Charts.Add(After:=wkbExperiment_Details.Sheets(wkbExperiment_Details.Sheets.Count))
appExcel.ScreenUpdating = False
With xlchart_for_96_Well_Plate_Source
.SetSourceData(Source:=wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, byteCharts_added), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, byteCharts_added)), PlotBy:=Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
.ChartType = objChart_Type
.PlotArea.Select()
.PlotArea.Top = 2
.PlotArea.Select()
.PlotArea.Left = 2
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).xvalues = wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, 1), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, 1)).Value ' Scale - wavelength for line chart
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).Values = wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, byteCharts_added + 1), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, byteCharts_added + 1)).Value
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).Name = wksData.Cells(1, .SeriesCollection.count + 1).value
End With
appExcel.ScreenUpdating = True
I have written a macro to generate graph in excel but i want that graph to be generated in the next sheet not in the same sheet.i have pasted my macro below its working properly i just want it to be in the next sheet. please provide me some solution*
Sub LumData1()
If IsEmpty(Range("B2,D2")) = False Then
Range("B:B,D:D,H:H,I:I,J:J,M:M").Select
Range("M1").Activate
ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart.Select
ActiveChart.ChartType = xlXYScatterSmoothNoMarkers
ActiveChart.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets(ActiveSheet.Name).Range( _
"$B:$B,$D:$D,$H:$H,$I:$I,$J:$J,$M:$M" _
)
ActiveChart.Location Where:=xlLocationAsObject, Name:=ActiveSheet.Name
With ActiveChart.ChartArea
.Width = 1060
.Height = 420
.Left = 0
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Select
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).AxisGroup = 2
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(5).Select
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(5).AxisGroup = 2
ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "Date"
ActiveChart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
ActiveChart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "Value"
ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels.Orientation = 45
End If
End Sub
My answer covers not only how to solve your question in your post, but how to automatically define and set-up charts in VBA in a “cleaner” and safer way.
It's better if you avoid using ActiveSheet, Select, and ActiveChart. Instead always use referenced objects, in this case Worksheets and ChartObject. E.g Dim ChtObj As ChartObject , and later set it with Set ChtObj = ShtCht.ChartObjects.Add(100, 100, 500, 500) , where ShtCht is the worksheet where you create your chart.
Once you defined and set your ChartObject, its quite easy to modify its properties by using the With ChtObj , and also nested properties, by adding With .Chart.ChartArea under the first With statement.
Code
Option Explicit
Sub LumData1()
Dim ChtObj As ChartObject
Dim ShtSrc As Worksheet
Dim ShtCht As Worksheet
' change "Sheet1" to your sheet's name (where you have your chart's data)
Set ShtSrc = Worksheets("Sheet1") ' <-- I preffer not to work with ActiveSheet
'Set ShtCht = Worksheets("Sheet2") ' <-- set the chart's destination worksheet
Set ShtCht = Worksheets.Add ' <-- create a new worksheet to place the chart
ShtCht.Name = "Chart"
If Not IsEmpty(ShtSrc.Range("B2,D2")) Then
Set ChtObj = ShtCht.ChartObjects.Add(100, 100, 500, 500)
With ChtObj
.Chart.ChartType = xlXYScatterSmoothNoMarkers
.Chart.SetSourceData ShtSrc.Range("$B:$B,$D:$D,$H:$H,$I:$I,$J:$J,$M:$M")
' set position of the chart to Cell M1
.Top = ShtCht.Range("M1").Top
.Left = ShtCht.Range("M1").Left
' modify chart position and dimensions
With .Chart.ChartArea
.Width = 1060
.Height = 420
.Left = 0
End With
With .Chart
.SeriesCollection(1).AxisGroup = 2
.SeriesCollection(5).AxisGroup = 2
.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "Date"
.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "Value"
.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels.Orientation = 45
End With
End With
End If
End Sub
edited after OP's clarification he has to make a new sheet to host the chart into
to stick to your code as much as possible:
remove ActiveChart.Location Where:=xlLocationAsObject, Name:=ActiveSheet.Name
place the following code right before End if
Dim myChart As Chart: Set myChart = ActiveChart
Worksheets.Add
myChart.Location Where:=xlLocationAsObject, Name:=ActiveSheet.Name
My problem is that I want to make many graph in one chart but the data is from different sheets.
At the moment my code can only take multi data from one sheet, meaning I can plot 2 graph from one sheet.
My code at the moment is:
Sub ChartSheet()
Dim ChartSheet1 As Chart
Set ChartSheet1 = Charts.Add
With ChartSheet1
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232, Y12:Y6232")
.ChartType = xlLine
.HasTitle = True
.ChartTitle.Characters.Text = "Test Chart"
.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
.Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "x"
.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "y"
End With
End Sub
What I want is to say:
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232, Y12:Y6232")
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet2").Range("D12:E23")
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet3").Range("Y12:Y6232, G27:G496, H3:5977")
and so on..
But when I do this my code it only print the last line from .SetSoureData
Hope some of you can help me work around this, Many thank in advarnce :)
Update:
I found abit of a work around by looping but this is not my total answer
But here is my other code:
Sub MultiSheetPlot()
Dim cht As Chart, s As Series, xRng As Range
Dim i As Long, chartName As String
Set cht = Charts.Add
cht.ChartType = xlLine
For i = 1 To 3
chartName = "Sheet" & i
Set xRng = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A20, C1:C20")
With cht.SeriesCollection.NewSeries()
.Values = xRng
.Name = chartName
End With
Next i
End Sub
the problem in this code is that it ignores the last range I define like the C10:C20
Responding to your latest update, I have a Sub that creates a series each time it's called from MultiSheetPlot Sub.
You can actually add more parameters to this Sub (as long as you remeber to pass them in the Calling).
Option Explicit
Dim cht As Chart
Sub MultiSheetPlot()
Set cht = Charts.Add
cht.ChartType = xlLine
' call the series creation chart function (each time for each series you want to add to the existing chart
Call Create_SeriesChart("Sheet1", Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232"), 1, True, msoThemeColorText1)
Call Create_SeriesChart("Sheet1", Sheets("Sheet1").Range("Y12:Y6232"), 1, True, msoThemeColorText1)
End Sub
' ------ this Sub creates a series to the chart, it receives the following parameters: ------
' 1. seriesName - String
' 2. serValues - Range
' 3. lineWeight - Double (the weight of the line)
' 4. lineVis - Boolean (if you want to hide a certail series)
' 5. lineColor - MsoColorType (using the current's PC Theme colors
Sub Create_SeriesChart(seriesName As String, serValues As Range, lineWeight As Double, lineVis As Boolean, lineColor As MsoColorType)
Dim Ser As Series
Set Ser = cht.SeriesCollection.NewSeries
With Ser
.Name = seriesName
.Values = serValues
.Format.Line.Weight = lineWeight
If lineVis = True Then
.Format.Line.Visible = msoTrue
Else
.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
End If
.Format.Line.ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor = lineColor ' Line color Black
End With
End Sub
My solution is use Name of plage, you can give a name of your range
Like in my photo :
Everytime when you want to use these datas you just need call them
Like this plage i gived them name Poste_EtatDeLaDemande
When i want to use these elements i just call it like Range("Poste_EtatDeLaDemande") Excel will find it you don't need tell them where it is anymore ; )
I have to create almost 200 charts of time series. So I tried to write a macro that finishes most of the work I need to do.
I generated names for the time series like this as an example:
Name:= AKB_ExampleA
The name refers to a dynamic range which I declared with this formula:
=OFFSET('sheet1'!$C$7:$C$137;0;0;COUNT('sheet1'!$C$7:$C$206))
So now to the macro I coded so far:
Sub graphik_erstellen()
Call graphik1("AKB")
End Sub
Sub graphik(Name As String)
'
Dim Ch As Chart
Dim RngToCover As Range
Set Ch = charts.Add
Set Ch = Ch.Location(Where:=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Charts")
With Ch
.ChartType = xlLine
.SetSourceData Source:=Range(Name & "_ExampleA")
.SeriesCollection(1).XValues = Range("Datum_Volumen")
.SeriesCollection(1).Name = "SERIES1"
.FullSeriesCollection(1).Select
With Selection.Format.Line
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 0, 0)
.Transparency = 0
End With
.HasTitle = True
.ChartTitle.Text = Name & ", Volumen (nach Korrektur)"
.HasLegend = True
.Legend.Position = xlLegendPositionBottom
.Legend.Select
Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Size = 11
Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Bold = msoTrue
With .Parent
.top = 100
.left = 100
.height = 287.149606299
.width = 543.685039370078
.Name = Name & "_chart"
End With
End With
End Sub
My problem is, that if I do that, the dynamic range is not really considered. It takes the range of the name (which is $C$7:$C$137) but it should refer to the name itself (in order to be dynamic).
So if I click on the chart to see the series, the series values are declared as: ='sheet1'!$C$7:$C$137 instead of ='sheet1'!ExampleA.
I would be really, really grateful if somebody could help me out.
Best
Elio
I have rearranged a few lines of code and tried to place comments refering to them as well.
Let me know what works. Youjust might need to change SeriesCollection to FullSeriesCollection. Other than that the code works in my Excel 2010.
The first Sub I just get the Range size according to the data available in Column "C" from Row 7.
Let me know.
Option Explicit
Sub graphik_erstellen()
'You always want to use direct reference to a sheet/range chart
'Refering to the WorkBook they are in and the worksheet as well.
'especially if you are opening multiple WorkBooks / Sheets
Dim CurrentWorkSheet As Worksheet
Set CurrentWorkSheet = Workbooks("Book1").Worksheets("Sheet1")
'Dynamically finding the end of the data in Column C
Dim LastRow As Long
LastRow = CurrentWorkSheet.Cells(CurrentWorkSheet.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
'Setting the range using the document reference aswell
Dim AKB As Range
Set AKB = Workbooks("Book1").Worksheets("Sheet1").Range(Cells(7, "C"), Cells(LastRow, "C"))
Call graphik(AKB)
End Sub
Sub graphik(Name As Range)
Dim DataChart As Chart
Dim RngToCover As Range
Set DataChart = Workbooks("Book1").Charts.Add
'With Excel 2010 the line above will automatically add the chart as a sheet and not aobject in a sheet
'Set DataChart = DataChart.Location(Where:=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Charts")
With DataChart
.Name = "Charts" ' This will be the Name of the CHart Tab
.ChartType = xlLine
.SetSourceData Source:=Name
'You can see below I avoided the Select and Selection
With .SeriesCollection(1)
'Using Offset I just used the data one cell to the left of the range
.XValues = Name.Offset(0, -1)
.Name = "SERIES1"
With .Format.Line
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 0, 0)
.Transparency = 0
End With
End With
.HasTitle = True
.ChartTitle.Text = "MIDDEL TOP TEXT" 'Name & ", Volumen (nach Korrektur)"
.HasLegend = True
With .Legend
.Position = xlLegendPositionBottom
.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Size = 11
.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Bold = msoTrue
End With
'Not sure about this, it doesnt work in my Excel 2010
'
With .Parent
.Top = 100
.Left = 100
.Height = 287.149606299
.Width = 543.685039370078
.Name = Name & "_chart"
End With
End With
End Sub
Let me know what your intention is for the Sheet and Chart names and then I can help with getting that to what you need as well.
I am experiencing an error in a subroutine attempting to set the plotarea.width property of a chart.
The other dimensions also cause this error if I comment out the preceding line(s).
There is no ActiveChart, no selection, etc. The specific error message is this: "-2147467259 (80004005) Method 'Width' of object 'PlotArea' failed"
This is stumping me for several reasons:
In debug mode, F8 to step through the code the error does NOT occur.
AFAIK "width" is not a "method" but a "property" of the chart's plotarea, so even the error message is rather ambiguous.
Any thoughts? Here's as much code as I can share, the ChartSizeMedium subroutine in its entirety, and a dummy snippet to show you how I am establishing the chart and passing it to that sub which sets the size & some other properties prior to passing to another function which adds the series data to the chart.
Option Explicit
Private Sub EstablishChartObject()
Dim cObj as ChartObject
Set cObj = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
ChartSizeMedium cObj.Chart, "Integer", "Example Chart Title"
End Sub
Private Sub ChartSizeMedium(cht As Chart, NumType As String, Optional chtTitle As String)
'Subroutine to make a consistent size chart
Dim s As Long
With cht
'Add a chart title if one exists.
If Len(chtTitle) > 0 Then
.HasTitle = True
.chartTitle.Characters.Text = chtTitle
End If
'Create the default chart Legend
.HasLegend = True
With .Legend
.Position = xlTop
.Font.Size = 11
.Font.Bold = True
End With
'Format the axes
.Axes(xlValue).MajorGridlines.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
.Axes(xlValue).MinorGridlines.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
'Format the size of the chart
With .Parent
.Width = 740
.Height = 396
End With
With .PlotArea
.Width = 640 '<---- THIS LINE TRIGGERS THE ERROR
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End With
'Some charts start with more than one series container, so make sure they're gone:
With cht
Do Until .SeriesCollection.Count = 0
s = .SeriesCollection.Count
.SeriesCollection(s).Delete
Loop
End With
End Sub
UPDATE Dec 12, 2012
I remove all non-problematic code and use only the PlotArea with block, in the same routine, I have also tried setting the chart type (several values) and as shown in this example, manually adding one series of data prior to attempting to set the PlotArea dimensions, but the error persists:
Option Explicit
Private Sub EstablishChartObject2()
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Dim sh As Worksheet
Set sh = ActiveSheet
Dim srs As Series
Set cObj = sh.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
Set srs = cObj.Chart.SeriesCollection.NewSeries
srs.Values = "={1,3,5,7,4}"
cObj.Chart.ChartType = 57
With cObj.Chart.PlotArea
.Width = 100 '<---- THIS LINE TRIGGERS THE ERROR
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End Sub
i had a similar problem . And its definitely an excel issue (having 2013).
With .PlotArea
.Select 'err if delete this line of code
.Top = 0
.Left = 0
.width = 40
.Height = 40
End With
if you remove the .selectline, it will result in error on the next line.
note that i am not working with a <with selectiondo stuff>.
the .selectmakes it work, without using the selection, wich is obviously an excel bug (from previous versions?)
Two solutions that seem to be working, neither is really as "elegant" as I'd prefer (I was hoping there would be a way to do this with selecting the chart or any part of it).
Option 1 - Select the plot area and then deselect it. This seems to be the most reliable/efficient solution.
With .PlotArea
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
.Select
With Selection
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Activate
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
Option 2 - disable error-handling in loop (this followed from Doug's link). This doesn't seem to be a very reliable or efficient method, and although it seems to work, I know that within that loop it is failing once on each of the properties before it successfully sets them on a subsequent pass.
With .PlotArea
For pLoop = 1 To 5
On Error Resume Next
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
On Error GoTo 0
Next
End With
Hope your sheet and chart has the ability to get a width up to 640. If so try the explicit reference. Also suggest you to change width, height values to lower values and see how programme responds. Since you said, when you select it works,
that also means, your cht is wrapping the correct chart object - unless otherwise you selected the chart using ActiveChart.PlotArea.Width . Hence I guess explicit reference could do be a potential try out.
,
cht.PlotArea.Width = 640
cht.PlotArea.Height = 280
cht.PlotArea.Left = 30
cht.PlotArea.Top = 30
Further, check on Aspect Ratio lock or unlock. If none of these works, then add a chart into your sheet and use most simple chart formatting code to check on widht, height, left, top changes.
Update two
Let's try specifing chart type and setting up chart object in the second sub as well. I tried out in my end and it's working. Try the code with following changes.
Code:
Calling this sub from the button showed in the sheet.
Option Explicit
Public Sub EstablishChartObject()
Dim mySheet As Worksheet
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.StatusBar = "Chart is coming soon..."
Set mySheet = Sheets(2) '-- set according to yours
'-- create chart with some source data first, which you can change later
Set cObj = mySheet.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=400, Height:=200)
ChartSizeMedium cObj, "Integer", "Example Chart Title"
End Sub
'Subroutine to make a consistent size chart
Private Sub ChartSizeMedium(chtObj As ChartObject, NumType As String, _
Optional chtTitle As String)
Dim myChart As Chart
Dim s As Long
Set myChart = chtObj.Chart '-- specify chart type
myChart.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets(2).Range("B3:C12") '-- set to what you have
myChart.ChartType = xlXYScatterLines '-- set to the type you want
'and make sure to **use correct properties**
With myChart
If .HasTitle Then
.ChartTitle.Characters.Text = chtTitle
End If
'Create the default chart Legend
If .HasLegend Then
With .Legend
.Position = xlTop
.Font.Size = 11
.Font.Bold = True
End With
End If
'Format the axes
With .Axes(xlValue)
.HasMajorGridlines = False
End With
'Format the size of the chart
With .Parent
.Width = 400 '-- change to yours
.Height = 250 '-- change to yours
End With
With .PlotArea
.Width = 300 '-- change to yours
.Height = 180 '-- change to yours
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.StatusBar = "Chart is Here!"
End Sub
Otput:
Make sure to use correct properties for each chart type. Note that above code doesn't delete any left over, old charts from your sheet.
.MajoreGridlines.Format.Lines.Visible fails. So set the .MajorGridlines = False to make sure you do not want to show the gridlines.
Anything else you want to do can be done later. Just try with the changes to dimension initially.
Reference from : MSDN Gridlines property
I know this is old, and this solution seems bad, but it works. I only thought to do it as you mention that stepping through works.
Option Explicit
Sub chart()
Dim cObj As ChartObject
Dim sh As Worksheet
Set sh = ActiveSheet
Dim srs As Series
Set cObj = sh.ChartObjects.Add(Left:=30, Top:=30, Width:=740, Height:=300)
cObj.chart.ChartType = 57
Set srs = cObj.chart.SeriesCollection.NewSeries
srs.Values = "={1,3,5,7,4}"
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:01") '<~~ Added This line
With cObj.chart.PlotArea
.Width = 100
.Height = 280
.Left = 30
.Top = 30
End With
End Sub
EDIT: This seems to work for some chart types, but it was still failing for other chart types. I have continued to use the 5x loop with On Error Resume Next and that seems to be -- unfortunately -- the most "reliable" solution to-date.
Original: This is based on User2140261's suggested answer, above:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16041640/1467082
Since the question was initially posted, the application now resides in PowerPoint, so I cannot use the Applicaiton.Wait. I had some intermittent errors with a 1-second pause, and 3-seconds was too much of a pause, so I built the following error trap. The same idea could be used in Excel in conjunction with Application.Wait.
It was this block of code that was giving me fits, so I added this error handling in Powerpoint to mimic the Application.Wait.
RetryChartDimensions:
On Error GoTo ErrChartDimensions
With .PlotArea
.Width = paWidth
.Height = paHeight
.Left = paLeft
.Top = paTop
End With
On Error GoTo 0
' More code
' more code
Exit Sub 'gracefully exit this subroutine before the error-handling.'
ErrChartDimensions:
Err.Clear
'Pause before setting the PlotArea dimensions:'
Dim wtTime As Double
Dim startTime As Long
'A maximum 3 second delay should be more than enough time.
If wtTime < 3 Then
wtTime = wtTime + 0.5
startTime = Timer
While Timer < startTime + wtTime
DoEvents
Wend
End If
Resume RetryChartDimensions
End Sub
I don't have enough reputation to add a comment, so using the above solutions I have fixed my problem with Pie Charts in VB.Net 2010 and Excel 2013. xlLine charts never caused a problem, but my code would crash when the same code was ran against an xlPie chart on Excel 2013 (All was fine on Excel 2007).
My now working code:
appExcel.Visible = False
xlchart_for_96_Well_Plate_Source = appExcel.Charts.Add(After:=wkbExperiment_Details.Sheets(wkbExperiment_Details.Sheets.Count))
appExcel.ScreenUpdating = False
With xlchart_for_96_Well_Plate_Source
.SetSourceData(Source:=wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, byteCharts_added), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, byteCharts_added)), PlotBy:=Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
.ChartType = objChart_Type
.PlotArea.Select()
.PlotArea.Top = 2
.PlotArea.Select()
.PlotArea.Left = 2
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).xvalues = wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, 1), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, 1)).Value ' Scale - wavelength for line chart
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).Values = wksData.Range(wksData.Cells(2, byteCharts_added + 1), wksData.Cells(intUsed_Rows, byteCharts_added + 1)).Value
.SeriesCollection(.SeriesCollection.count).Name = wksData.Cells(1, .SeriesCollection.count + 1).value
End With
appExcel.ScreenUpdating = True