Introduction

Aurigma FlashChart is a powerful ASP.NET web control, which is designed to generate various charts in Macromedia Flash format dynamically. It interprets specified data and returns a chart in .swf file format.

FlashChart is a must have component for everyone who need to display data as charts. Judge for yourself: Macromedia Flash is a very wide-spread format - overwhelming majority of Internet users has browsers, supporting this format. Additionally, Flash movies, unlike common images, are much more attractive. In particular, charts in Macromedia Flash format are animated; several types of animation are available. In addition, files of this format are rather compact.

Features of FlashChart

Five chart types as column, row, line, area and pie. All charts of these types (except of pie charts) can be accumulated and normalized.
All of the chart parts can be customized by specifying the values of settings. For example you can specify color for each chart element, font settings (family, style, size, color) for text objects of a chart (labels), etc.
Headings, subheadings, axes, legends, item captions may be added.
As it is designed as web control, FlashChart can be used in design-time as well as in run-time. The appearance and data can be changed in design-time.
Charts, created by FlashChart are very attractive. It is not static image: several types of animation is supported.
Support of non-english characters, including Chinese (as well as other Asian fonts), Arabic (handles ligatures correctly), Hebrew (and other right-to-left languages).
Generated charts have pretty small size.
The chart appearance can be easily modified.
All the chart settings can be saved to file (called style scheme) and restored from it later.
30 ready style schemes are shipped with the FlashChart.
The resulting chart can be saved either into .swf file or stream.
Macromedia Flash is a cross-platform format and great number of computers does support it.
Documentation in Help2 format, integrated with MSDN and Visual Studio .NET.