Chapter 8. 2D GRAPHING COMPONENTS: INTRODUCING CHARTING

2D GRAPHING COMPONENTS: INTRODUCING CHARTING

Updated 6/22/08

One of the best components that you can use with Flex is baked right into the framework. Charting has always been a pain on the Web. You can use open source frameworks like GD (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) to draw graphics on the server, but the results often leave a lot to be desired, and there is little or no interactivity in the charts. Because of Flex's initial focus on the business market, Adobe put a data visualization framework right into the base set of controls.

What a framework it is! The controls are designed to support almost any type of data and at the same time be ...

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