Ozzy - I was here to make another post, but can hopefully offer some quick help with an old existing AFL that I had. You defined the goal as plotting an existing CSV file through AB's 3D graphing program O3G.EXE.
A little background - O3G processes CSV files with a header line representing labels, and then data points with each line in the order Z,X,Y. If your data is in that format, you can just run O3G. For example, here's an example of a first few lines - Equity,Period1,Period2 83039,5,20 146415,5,40 150276,5,60 I did the following AFL as a simple, teaching example for a talk about two years ago. It was intended to show how to generate 2-D ribbon and 3-D surface plots with data manipulation in AFL, and to call an external program - all wrapped up in one AFL. So, it generates data internally and then calls a routine called Plot3D to write it out to a CSV file, run O3G, and return. If you have an existing file, it should just be a matter of reading it into appropriate variables and calling the routine. You might find the info in the header comments useful, also. You can run it as a Scan, Explore, or Indicator. The AFL was a little too long to post, look for the file, Plot3D.afl, in the Files section. -- BruceR P.S. O3G can be useful for visualizing certain things, but manipulation of Excel plots from AB opens up some more interesting possibilities. Another story for another day. --- In [email protected], "ozzyapeman" <zoopf...@...> wrote: > > Hello, wondering if anyone has done this before - If I have a csv data file containing three data columns, is there a way to import this into the AA so I can use AB's 3D graphing utility to see the 3D plot? > > It seems that AB can only import it's own specific HTML format, not plain old CSV. > > So then an alternate question is - can a CSV file, as previously described, be easily converted into AB's required HTML format, either with a utility or via some kind of scripting? Can anyone point me to a basic methodology? The only scripting language I have a basic handle on is VBscript. Hoping this is not too complex. >
