January 31st, 2008 by Timothy Loginov
On January 31st, AnyChart Team is proud to present minor, but very interesting 4.2.1 release.
Now you can animate chart elements (lines, bars, points, etc.), elements labels and markers, you can set a different animation to each series, animate only certain point or label of certain point. For easy configuration you can use animation style – settings that can be reused for any element.
Also, we have updated the engine and now AnyChart works faster making possible plotting larger volumes of data.
Read more about available animation settings in AnyChart Chart Animation Tutorial in AnyChart User’s Guide.
Also, we have created a small Animation Playground, that allows you to pick an animation style, choose motion type, duration, etc. and preview how these settings will work, click to visit Animation Playground right now.
The new version can be downloaded from our site: Download fully functional trial version
Default animation for all chart types is shown in the AnyChart Flash Chart Gallery
Registered Customers can obtain new version from Customer Area.
New features allow to build visually appealing animated dashboards and reports!
December 30th, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
We’re happy to inform that new AnyMap Extension with a number of great features (including Charts and Maps in a single interactive dashboard) is available now.
AnyMap includes a lot of incredible unique features:
- Draw custom markers, bubbles, lines and connectors on the maps.
- Draw any map shipped in the package with no additional charge or royalty – see the list of available maps .
- Use any SHP file to create your custom map – contact us at contact@anychart.com for details.
- Display any map in one of ten map projections.
- Use geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) to add custom points to the map.
- Use thresholds to color a map automatically, according to the data from your database.
- Add legend, labels and tooltips to a map.
- Attach custom actions to any map region – to create interactive web applications.
- Attach any custom data from your database to the map – for labels, tooltips, legend, coloring or actions.
- Display any data in any language (using UTF-8 char sets).
Now you can easily visualize any geographically related data to solve any of the following tasks:
- Create Drilldown Maps.
- Create Geographical Related Interactive Dashboards.
- Create RealEstate, Distributor, Franchise, Dealer, etc. locators.
- Visualize statistical or reporting data easily.
- Visualize marketing research reports.
- Create Area Selectors for web-sites.
Also AnyChart product includes some improvements and new features:
- Interactivity
– Multiple Elements Select
– Selectable/Hoverable Settings for Interactive Elements
– Title, Subtitle and Footer Actions
– updateView and updateChart tokens technique
- Custom Controls with Fixed, Floating and Auto Layout
– Multiple Custom Interactive Labels
– Multiple Legends
- Thresholds
– Custom condition based thresholds
– Automatic Thresholds
- Exporting
– Save As PDF
– Save As Image now has export image size settings
– External invoking of Save As and Printing functions
– Autosaving a chart upon rendering
- Axes
– Axes Custom Labels
– Axes Custom Lines (trends)
– Axes Custom Ranges (zones)
– New Axes Keywords
– New Extra Axes Definition Format
- Templates
– ability to change series and data nodes attributes using template
- No Data Message Configuration
- External showLoading commands and text configuration
- Massive AnyChart.js update
– https issues fix
– wmode parameter support
Please note that you can purchase AnyChart with AnyMap in bundle and save more than 25%.
Also our existing customers are welcome to contact us to get their personal discount coupon.
Useful links:
You can download AnyChart Flash Chart Component 4.2 with interactive maps here:
https://www.anychart.com/download/
Also you can look at the samples in our gallery:
http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/gallery/
AnyChart Maps samples available here:
http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/gallery/Interactive-Maps.php
Order page:
https://www.anychart.com/products/anymap/buy/
November 12th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk
We’re glad to announce new version of our charting component with new exciting chart type – geographical maps.
Interactive Maps is a unique feature of AnyChart component that allows you to visualize geo related data.
We use the same swf file to render maps and charts – it allows combining maps and chart in the interactive dashboard and easily deploying both of them.
The maps themselves are stored in a separate file with “*.amap” extension. You just place this file and swf file on your server and specify it in XML settings file to render a desired map.
Here are some tasks you can solve with AnyChart Flash Maps:
* Create Drilldown Maps.
* Create Geographical Related Dashboards.
* Create RealEstate, Distributor, Franchise, Dealer, etc. locators.
* Visualize statistical or reporting data easily.
* Visualize marketing research reports.
* Create Area Selectors for web-sites.
AnyChart Flash Map Features:
* Draw custom markers, bubbles, lines and connectors on the maps.
* Draw any map shipped in the package with no additional charge or royalty – see the list of available maps .
* Use any SHP file to create your custom map – if you have SHP files that contains maps you need – contact us at contact@anychart.com and we will convert them into AnyChart compatible format.
* Display any map in one of ten map projections.
* Use geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) to add custom points to the map.
* Use thresholds to color a map automatically, according to the data stored in your database.
* Add legend, labels and tooltips to a map.
* Attach custom actions to any map region – to create interactive web applications.
* Attach any custom data from your database to the map – for labels, tooltips, legend, coloring or actions.
November 5th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk
Today AnyChart programmers have released the new version – 4.1.1 with one very exciting improvement – the performance while loading the data. They say that some research work in the area of nanotechnology and the latest results in CPU engineering were involved 😉 and here it is – https://www.anychart.com/download/
Some tests with huge data sets show the improvement in 30 times – awesome! Now it is very fast!
Yes – I believe in nanotechnology and that words about CPU engineering, but I still think that we deal with some black magic here. 🙂
Of course it is a joke about nanotechnology, actually a lot of work was done to optimize the processing of data and tuning the loading of XML and we’ve got the result. I’m sure AnyChart users would appreciate that and like the new release.
November 1st, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
Interesting in URLLoader and URLRequest.
If you are trying to load file using relative URL, that contains colon (“:”) and dot(“.”) in param values, you receive security error:
e.g.:
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("/test.flash?p=smth::else");
or
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("./test.flash?p=smth::else");
are not valid URL’s for Flash Player because flash player doesn’t escape “:” in urls.
You should use absolute URL’s for it:
e.g.:
var request:URLRequest = new
URLRequest("http://localhost:8080/test.flash?p=smth::else");
October 29th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk
http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php
Like the instrument panel in a car, the computer version-dashboard displays critical info in easy-to-read graphics, assembled from data pulled in real time from corporate software programs. Dashboards deliver the detailed information needed by everyone for day-to-day decision-making. Simple yet powerful analysis allows any user to discover vital trends in business performance and continuously monitor the performance of your organization at all levels and in real time.
Dashboards provide your business with real-time business intelligence across all areas of your company – from accounting and sales, to fulfillment and support. The Dashboard offers instant snapshots of your designated key performance indicators (KPIs), and provides real-time trend graphs and ad hoc reports appropriate for each role in your business. With direct drill-down capability, you can move from a summary level directly to greater detail, and you can see real-time information to proactively manage for better results.
While most enterprise dashboards in production are probably still custom built, we provide you a new way of dashboard creation – using AnyChart Flash Component Dashboard mode. Since all charts created by AnyChart Flash Chart Component are rendered using a single swf file it is very easy to place such swf file to your web-site and provide it with an XML configuration file that configures a dashboard.
In this article we will create step-by-step a sample dashboard, at first – we will make a static one – that can be used for presentation purposes, and then – we will add interactivity, which makes dashboard a really useful and modern tool of business data analytics. We’ll go thought all steps from “paper-design” created by hand to the interactive Flash dashboard.
Read it here http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php
This article was written by Tim Loginov as part of AnyChart Documentation.
October 27th, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
As I promised I’ve uploaded source code for solving the problem with flash content printing in Firefox and an example of its usage in Flash.
FFPrintFix library was extended and now it is called ACPrintManager. Now it is not only bug fix for printing, but also content control for printing from a browser.
See all details here:
https://www.anychart.com/blog/projects/acprintmanager/
October 16th, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
Update includes:
- Save As Image Feature
- New Chart Types:
- 3D Column (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 3D Bar (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 2D/3D Pyramid(Stacked, 100% Stacked ),
- 2D/3D Cone (Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 2D/3D Cylinder(Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked).
- New Financial Chart Types:
- Japanese Candlestick,
- Open-High-Low-Close Chart.
- DateTime:
- X and Y Axes DateTime Scales with full control over labels and scale,
- Fully Customizable DateTime Formatting,
- Flexible DateTime Input/Output localization,
- UNIX TimeStamp Input Format,
- Scatter Charts with DateTime axes.
- Dashboard Creation Feature:
- Create Interactive Dashboard using powerfull layout, templates and actions system using only one SWF file.
- User’s Guide Updated:
- Over 80 tutorials with more than 300 chart samples,
- A number of Implementation Samples – including AJAX integration and JavaScript Event Handlers.
- XML Reference Updated.
- Interactivity:
- Unlimited Number of Custom Actions on Point Click – open web page, launch external function, update another chart in dashboard and drilldown.
- Selected State Configuration for All Chart Types, ability to set default selected element on chart.
- Color Range Palettes – automatic feature for coloring all data points in different colors.
- Preloader Texts Customization Feature
- Advanced Number Formatting and Scaling
- Ability to set Meta Data for Points and Series using Custom Attributes for use in labels, tooltips, legend and actions.
September 23rd, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
I will let out a secret: we have solved a problem with printing Flash/Flex applications in Firefox 🙂
Here is the article how you can use it. 😉
UPD1: https://www.anychart.com/blog/2007/10/27/ac-print-manager/
UPD2: https://www.anychart.com/blog/projects/acprintmanager/
UPD3: LGPL license
Read more »
September 23rd, 2007 by Alex Batsuev
Integrating a Flash movie inside PowerPoint allows vector animation and interactivity to be added to a PowerPoint presentation. This strategy can be used to increase the performance. And it is really easy 😉
Here is a simple tutorial how to embed AnyChart into PowerPoint presentations:
Using AnyChart with PowerPoint presentations
