Flex Chart Gotcha
Ok, so Flex 2 charts rock. But - I ran into an issue yesterday that drove me mad. All I wanted was a simple bar chart. Yet nothing I tried would work right. Turns out that if you want a bar chart with one series of data (like sales of one product over the last few months) it won't work. You have to use a Column Chart. Silly me thinking that a bar chart was a bar chart! Turns out that BarChart is only used for multiple bars. Lesson learned. (And to be honest, I didn't really read the docs well - I skimmed.)
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I didn't know that. I use column charts as opposed to bar charts because I thought that I read that bar charts display data similar to horizontal bar charts in CF. I would like to see more chart types (like gauges and tanks). All of my applications are some type of performance measurement site and a number of people have asked for gauges and tanks. The standard types are okay but you really need more in today's environment.
# Posted By Andrew
| 2/16/07 9:18 PM
I was looking for a fix for an unrelated flex chart issue when I found this entry. For all future explorers to this spot, this will solve the problem.Just make the bar chart a stacked or 100% type graph and then make the second entry 0.
# Posted By Sean McClain
| 2/5/09 6:26 PM
My only other gripe with the Charting components is the lack of any type of envelope graphing. Like: I want to show if a value is within a set of constraints. You see it a lot in performance displays and engineering circles.
Sure, maybe it's a little obscure, but for outlandish cost of the charting package I expect my wildest charting fantasies to be fulfilled.
Aaron