Create a chart with Flash in web page (on)

System Requirements:

1. Macromedia's Flash MX Software, the latest version is Simplified Chinese 2004;

2. Macromedia Extension Manager, Manage Macromedia Software Series Software Package, providing expandability support for Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver and other software;

3. Flash Charting Components, a plug-in for a statistical graphic, providing a statistical graphic of three formats: linear chart, pie chart and column chart.

Advantage:

1. No COM components are installed on the web server;

2. Reduce the web server load process because the server side only needs to provide data generating statistical graphics, while the graphics are completed in the client;

3. Flash Charting Components supports all server scripts such as ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, Perl, CGI, and CF, etc.

4. With Flash Charting Components, there is a lot of advantages, making Banner, protecting web data, etc. This will not be introduced, everyone is excavated.

Production process:

1. If there is no Macromedia's Flash MX Software, please download a installation;

2. Install Macromedia EXTENSION Manager;

3. Install Macromedia Flash Charting Components for Macromedia's Flash MX Software with Macromedia Extension Manager. The method is to run the Macromedia Extension Manager and select "Install Extension ..." in the "File" menu. Enter the flash chat component in the pop-up dialog box, click "Install", in line, after the installation is installed:

Figure 1. Create the first static statistical graph; 1 Open Flash MX, create a new document, double-click the default layer to name a name, such as Bar Chart and set it to 400px and 300px, as shown in Figure 2: Figure 2 2 Open the component template (CTRL-F7), expand "Flash Charting Components", dragging a statistic graphic to your layer scene, this article uses the column graphics (Bar Chart), give it a name, such as Movchart Setting its width and height of 390px and 290px, as shown in Figure 3: Figure 3 and then writing a control script. Create a layer, name it to Actions, press F9 to open the script edit box, enter the Actions script in the edit box: Figure 4 4 ​​as how to write, everyone can help, the simplest is on the script editing box Click the " " button, then select the corresponding component in the drop-down menu, then select the method in the component's extension menu, and finally select a specific method to add to the script edit box, enter the corresponding parameters in the Scripting box. After writing, click the grammatal check to see if your input is wrong, the wrong change is changed, it is not worth it :); 5 Finally in the "File" menu Select "Export -> Export Movie", save to your local directory . At this point, your first chart is done, choose to open this file in IE, look at the actual effect, as shown in Figure 5: Figure 51. Create a dynamic statistical graphics; 1 how to create a basic static statistical graphic, next how to create a dynamic statistics graphic 2 Before creating a dynamic statistics graphic, let's take a look at how Flashcharts work . I. First, FlashCharts is a movie format of XML document data that can accept predefined image structural parameters from the server side. And interpret this XML document data as its own image format. So, we must first know how XML define image parameters, and then understand how to use XML document data in FlashCharts to generate images. II. The above data communication mode can be represented by the following figure: Figure six III. The above mode can be simply elaborated in the following steps: a. HTML issues a URL page request containing SWF files and XML documents to FlashCharts, as shown below: