Re: FLASH: line/bar graphing utility

[John Croteau]

Hi Alan,


> Does anyone know of a program/utility that programmatically produces

> flash movies/images from a delimited data file?  The idea would be that

> you could provide a data file containing varying numbers of data points

> and this program would figure out the lines or boxes that goes with each

> value, and based on settings (bar vs. line) produce a graph.  A key

> requirement is that the number of data values should be variable, so the

> graph produced could be based on 100 data points or 1000.  This seems

> like a needed product, as it would provide a vector based solution for

> graphing which would result in higher quality graphs.

Flash Generator does this. It is a server side application that works

with Flash. It has built in functions for various graphs and charts. You

can display information dynamically from databases, text files, cgi or

asp inputs. This allows separating the design in Flash from the content

provided in text format.

Output from Generator is not limited to Flash swf files but can also be

gif or jpegs using the same basic graphics and database.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/generator/


You can do this also do this with FS Command (JavaScript) but design and

implementation would generally take longer.


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