Hello Everyone,

I posted this once. I am going to attempt it again, hopefully with a better description of the problem and a subject line.

I am new to Graph and wish to put a box around the entire graphics output. I am producing a vertical bar chart from proc gchart. What I want is something similar to the examples provided in the SAS/Graph manual, where the entire graphics output area is enclosed by a box or border. However, the none of the example code I have found demonstrates drawing a box around everything. What is the best way to accomplish this? Obviously I could do this in the graphics editor. However, I have over 60 graphs produced within a macro loop. A picture of what I want, along with a legend describing the picture, follows.

************************************************ * * * This is a title * * This is title 2 * * * * 50|+++++++++++++++++++++ * * | + * * 40| + * * | ---- + * * 30| | | + * * | ---- | | + <--- produced by frame option on * 20| | | | | + vbar statement. * | | | | | + * * 10| | | | | + * * |____________________+ * * 0 * * Females Males * * * * Sex * * * * * * this is a footnote * * this is footnote 2 * * * <------What I want. ************************************************

The Legend for my drawing:

The + is produced by the frame option. What I want is the * box.

I am running SAS 6.11 on win 3.11 for workgroups. Some of my code follows.

Thanks, Brian

data mean; input sex mean; cards; 1 5 2 23 ; run;

%let title =' ';

proc gchart data = mean; vbar sex / frame sumvar = mean type = mean width = 30.0 patternid = midpoint raxis = axis1 maxis = axis2 discrete; format sex sex. ; title "&title"; label mean=''; run; quit;

----- Brian O. Mullin Idaho Division of Health, Center for Vital Statistics and Health Policy mullinb{dhwtowers/towers2/mullinb}@dhw.state.id.us