Check out Brendan’s chart range selection sample that emulate’s google finance’s nice chart navigator. I love this example because

  • it’s done mostly in MXML, with very little actionscript required
  • it uses a component from the ever growing collection of excellent 3rd party community flex components
  • it’s just so damn cool.

Great work, Brendan (and, by extension, Doug).

6 Responses to “Nice Google-finance-esque chart navigator”

  1. dabruceski Says:

    Impressive use of MXML. It’d be cool if all charting components had some type of zoom mechanism like the range selector built in.

  2. bob Says:

    Anyone know how to chart multiple (more than 2 series) with some series on one vertical axis, and other series on another vertical axis?

  3. William Khoe Says:

    Very similar to Yahoo! Finance’s chart. They have a much better chart, IMHO. (But Google gets all the credit as usual :))

  4. William Says:

    Bob, you can do it… carefully. I actually had to do that for the company I work for recently as a proof of concept, and basically you need to know the length of your entire dataset first, and then you can plot the other items and use a phantom series as the main series of the chart whose length is bound to the slider. I hope that helps, if not, drop me an email. If anyone knows a better way, I think this would be a great thing to turn into a component in and of itself.

  5. Sunny Says:

    William
    Can you give an example please, i have been trying to display data from different datasets on same graph but not successful so far.
    thanks
    Sunny

  6. tomgutz Says:

    try looking at this component. although i wont be able to give you the source since i am binded by the company i work in to not disclose it. Although this should provide you a good idea what is possible.

    http://tomgutz.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/flex-custom-chart/

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