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You can find them at http://www.fusioncharts.com/FusionCharts/Docs/ > Guide for Web Developers > FusionCharts and STYLES > Animation STYLE.

Can you please send us the link?

Hi, FusionCharts does accept Unicode XML. Can you please make sure that your XML has a BOM mark that specifies UTF8 charset?

Hi, Can you please make sure that you're using dataURL method? Also, the XML needs to have BOM mark of UTF8.

I'm afraid it's not directly possible, as of now.

We're currently working on Instrumentation v3. ETA is around 20-26 weeks.

I'm afraid you cannot render the "drawing" look, as any of our pre-supported animation patterns cannot generate that sequence.

Using the OCX, you can embed FusionCharts in VB. However, I'm afraid we do not have any code samples/documentation on the same.

Even if you use the same page to provide data to all charts (by using parameters to judge what data to "spit" out), this page will be called n times (where n is the number of charts). Let's say you've a page Charts.php, which has 10 charts in it. Now, you create a page ChartData.php, which accepts parameters (like say ChartData.php?dataForChartId=1, for brevity) and then outputs the XML data to the chart that calls it. So, when 10 charts are in the page Charts.php, and each of those chart call ChartData.php, effectively, your page is called 10 times, and as such it would connect to the DB 10 times (unless you cache the recordset or DB objects in some global store). Other option would be use the client side (AJAX) feature of FusionCharts. In that case, you can send the pertinent data from server to client in JavaScript arrays (see our documentation where we've an example of this in PHP). Now, at client side, you can code JavaScript routines that take this data and form XML at client side using string concatenation. This serves a lot of benefits like: Your data is streamed all-at-once in JS arrays. As such, there are no further calls to server/DB The charts can change data at client side, based on any defined filters. As such, if the user needs to see any view from that data, he can instantly see it without needing a server refresh. You can plot multiple charts out of same data, or multiple views from same data.

You'll need to URL-Encode the entire dataURL (that contains additional parameters), before specifying it to setDataURL method.

Yes - you can get different shape, size, color, border color for each anchor or all anchors in a dataset. Please see http://www.fusioncharts.com/FusionCharts/Docs/Contents/AttDesc/Anchors.html > Data Highlighting. Yes - you can have multi-line tool tips too. Please see http://www.fusioncharts.com/FusionCharts/Docs/Contents/TTip_Lines.html

Yes - pls set <chart anchorAlpha='0' ..> Each <set> has a toolText attribute, which you can use to specify additional data. Yes - FusionCharts extensively supports drill downs (self window, new window, pop-up, frame, JavaScript, AJAX etc.) You can control the thickness of lines using <chart lineThickness='5'...> Each <set> node supports a color attribute which you can use to do so.

Thanks for these wonderful suggestions. A part of these are already in our list for Instrumentation v3 (which will contain the new Gantt chart).

Using the context menu of the chart, you can print both in portrait and landscape mode. Also, this menu option works uniformly across all browsers. However, the print function of browser is not something that we can take control of inside FusionCharts. As such, they might differ on a few platforms.

There's a Flash Player setting (by going to Adobe website), which allows you to set this. Pls note that this is required only when you're running from local file system. If you route the example through your local web server or remote web server, these permissions are not required, and the links would work fine.

Can you make sure that you've proper settings in your Flash Player to allow Flash to JavaScript communication?

Yes - just set <chart showYAxisValues='0' ..>

Scott, Are you using the context menu of the chart to print?

Do all the charts show up in IE the first time?

Which SWF file are you using? Also, can you please host the page live so that we can debug?

getChartFromId method returns a reference to the Flash Object in the DOM Model. What error are you getting? Also, can you make sure that your chart is NOT inside a FORM?

To plot a line chart using XY plot, use the scatter chart and set: <dataset drawLine='1' ..> I'm afraid you cannot specify a different anchor for each line. You can do that for each dataset.

Yes - pls use <chart plotGradientColor='' ..> to get no gradients.

Yes - using the licensed version, you can set: <chart showFCMenuItem='0' ...> to hide "About FusionCharts" menu item.

Yes - you need to put the DLL inside bin folder.