Creating a Graph as a Bitmap or Metafile Image

When you create a graph, by default the image is returned from the graphing call as a bitmap, which can then be assigned to the Picture property of a PictureBox control or an Image control (or any other compatible ActiveX control.) For example, if you have a BDKDistribution object named "dist", you can make a bitmap graph image and assign it to a control named "Picture1" with a single line of code:

Set Picture1.Picture = dist.Graph(BDKCurveTypeDensity)

You can instead create a metafile image by changing the Destination property of the GraphDefaults structure, as demonstrated in the following code:

BDKApp.GraphDefaults.Destination = BDKMetafileImage
Set Picture1.Picture = dist.Graph BDKCurveTypeDensity