Software for Flash Charts

Flash Charts Populated from Dynamic Values

[brass monkey]

Hi All,

Background: My programmers are writing an application in asp that is a ROI calculator to show additional revenue generated over the next 5 years. It is a pretty cool tool that is currently in a very generic, data driven format.

Need: What I am looking for is a way to develop a flash chart who variables are populated by the database to illustrate additional revenue over the 5 year period. Again, we understand the basic of flash chart population but have never completed one whose variables are not set.

Is this possible? Is there any software that is recommended for a plug in for this functionality?

Thanks for your thoughts and advice...

Brass...

[benihana]

theres lots of flash apps out there to do this, of vbarying price and quality - a quick hunt around should turn some up :)

[jay5r]

If it's not a public site and you can reasonably require the Flash 9 player, then check out Flex 2.0 with charting... It's a development environment (think forms and xml-based data pulls) with a charting component that "compiles" down to a .swf file. That should be the easiest way to implement charting with the Flash player.

[adobe.com...]

The "thing" is that it's not completely compatible with Flash at the moment. Flash uses ActionScript 1 or 2, Flex uses ActionScript 3. So you can't import any Flash movies that use ActionScript 1 or 2 into your Flex projects until a later version is released.

But it's an extremely cool product, and it doesn't cost $20,000 any more like v1 did.