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I'm having a lot of trouble controlling the look of the SSGrid to match my darker reports. Specifically I'm using a black background, and want something similar on the SSGrid. While this works for the primary background, I can't seem to have any control over the Alternate row color. I believe it's an alpha of the main back, but the params in the documentation that effect this seem to have no effect at all... This for example, does nothing: alternateRowBgColor='0000ff' alternateRowBgAlpha='50' (instead of blue it still uses the black of bgColor='000000') Also, likewise - these do nothing as well: colorBoxWidth='50' colorBoxHeight='50' colorBoxPadding='50' Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong? I'm using the 3.1 Enterprise version of the components. Thanks, Luke

Thank you much, but unfortunately when I click the Zip file I just get bounced to the Forum homepage. Would you mind by chance E-mailing it to me and I'd love to try it? I'm luke_@_centercode.com without the _. (:

Thank you but unfortunately this solution will not work for us. Due to technical complications (our own custom code for generating JPGs and PDFs server-side) we cannot generate charts via JavaScript, we have to embed them. We're also not using XML files, but rather feeding the XML in directly via parameter. Is there any reason these specific items would need to be used this way vs parameters on the element like EVERY other element? Thanks, Luke

I'm trying to use a similar method of supplying my own color palettes (so my users have options) for Pyramid and Funnel charts, in line with all of the other single-axis style charts (ie. their s match the FushionCharts 3.1 1-axis chart reports perfectly). The problem is that for the life of me I can't get the Palette functionality working. All other single-axis charts use paletteColors='ff0000,00ff00,0000ff' as their method of accomplishing this. According to the FusionWidget documentation of Funnels and Pyramids they use paletteThemeColor, which is a tad annoying - but workable, IF it worked. For me it doesn't. Based on the documentation it also sounds like paletteThemeColor is intended to take in a single color rather than a series, and it will magically generate your palette from that - but that unfortunately doesn't work either. No matter what I put in that value it seems to have no effect for either Funnel or Pyramid widgets, whether they're 2D or 3D. Is this a known bug? I know I can color them by adding color to the individual elements - but that mean a bunch of additional code to manually do that (and handle looping at the end of the palette etc). My developer will not be happy if I give him that solution for just these chart types... Any ideas? =Luke

I can't seem to even get this parameter to work in 3D Columns.. Seems to work fine in 2D columns, but has absolutely no effect with any value on a 3D Column. Example: plotSpacePercent='80' and plotSpacePercent='0' Produce identical visuals on Column3D.Swf, but work as intended on Column2D.swf. Any ideas? =Luke

Ok you're right - it seems to work, but very differently. If I have more than 3-4 columns it doesn't really work at all (I was testing with 10 columns, then 5). It works completely differently on the 2D version, where it basically always works - I wonder why. And yes, the Internet is great at swallowing words. (: Thanks again, you've been very helpful. =Luke

Did you fall asleep typing? (:

Perfect - thank you very much!

Does this not work for Column3d? I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make them solid colors...

The 20fps charts seem to work fine (I believe the distributed ones are at 30fps). The question is, why the 20fps charts aren't distributed yet. I'm assuming they're trying to find some other fix that doesn't remove frames, but who knows until we get an answer.

Same... We were actually sent the 20fps charts for this - but if we update to the new version for the other fixes, it sounds like we lose our 20fps? Also, we purchased an enterprise license for the whole suite, so we don't have them for charts/widgets/power either.

I just read about the new update, and no mention of a fix for this, or 20fps files? What's the deal...

Apparently I don't have access to PM. Feel free to E-mail me at luke at centercode.com. I'd actually be interested in your experience with the product, maybe we can swap stories/tips. Thanks, Luke

Actually the Iraq one worked from the link in this thread, but the Benin one didn't. My guy apparently figured it out on his own - but obviously this still needs fixed. I'm getting a little nervous about this maps product in general. I've sent a number of E-mail to support regarding it (over the course of the last 3+ weeks), and heard nothing back. I'm not entirely sure I can rely on this to be in our product.

We just ran into this problem with Iraq, and the remote version fixed it. Unfortunately we ran into the same problem with Benin (in Africa), but the remote solution didn't fix it. Is there some other fix available?

Thank you for the response, but from my experience Firefox does seem to be a culprit here. As I stated in my previous post (and others had the same experience) - IE renders the page without a problem at about 1-2% of one of my cpu cores. It's completely responsive, and scrolls with no problem. The charts work great. Firefox absolutely caps out one of my 2 cores, so much that the thread effectively halts Firefox so that I have to close the process entirely. Bad mojo. As for the type of machine - I could be wrong, but I don't think graphics card should have too much to do with it. I don't believe Flash even supported hardware acceleration until 9, but FusionCharts are using Flash 8. But that said, I have a PCIe DX9 graphics card with 256MB - Not high-end, but definitely not Intel Integrated either. My CPU is a dual-core Intel. Not the latest, but not a slouch by business standards. My home machine is much more high-end, I'll try it here as well.

Hi bonhamjh, Forgive me but I'm a tad confused - Is this something I'd only need to do once? I can't even remotely justify installing WAMP or PHP on all of the servers our application runs on - although I could have my developers do this once for each chart, if I can then just copy the hacked SWFs to all the servers. That said, why am I paying $5,000+ to install PHP and hack the files I'm purchasing? Why can't FusionCharts fix this themselves, or at least respond? Obviously I'm not the only one frustrated by this... =Luke

Hi all, I'm on the verge of (as in hours away from) spending at least ~$5,000 on this suite of software, but to be perfectly honest this thread has me quite worried. We've spent the last couple days doing a great deal of diligence on this decision (including a bunch of work to work out our own solution for server-side image generation from the Flash, so that we can use the charts in PDF/Prints), but then we hit a roadblock which *sounds* like its described here. Basically in Firefox, if we have more than a few charts displayed (as few as ~6) our CPU spikes up out of control. I'm on a dual-core machine myself, and one of the cores hits 100%, and effectively stops Firefox entirely. IE on the other hand barely shows any CPU usage at all (~1%). Opera seems to use very little CPU, but is generally unresponsive, and Safari is about as bad as Firefox (completely unusable, halts). My developer doing the work is experiencing the same effects on his box. Unfortunately in our scenario, we're replacing a simple html based chart system (mocked bar graphs with gifs basically) where our customers can create a number of reports on one screen (anywhere from 4 to 25 is common) - so we need that capability in our new solution. One thing that is strange to me, is that the talk of wmode stuff doesn't apply to us at all. We've actually tried with or without that option enabled (ultimately I *think* we'll need it, as we have a semi-transparent lightbox which covers the screen on session expiration) - but regardless, we have the problem in either case. Outside the software itself, as said in a previous post, the customer support on this issue is troubling to me. It seems as though one user has figured out a solution for this (the 20 fps thing), which it seems could have been modded into the software to potentially solve the problem - but the FusionCharts team doesn't seem to have commented on this at all (unless I missed it). And while I'd like to try the hack - the solution presented is a PHP solution, and we're dealing with a legacy ASP system. Not to mention - I'm not really comfortable settling on a hack for our brand new system, nor do I feel I should have to with what we're paying. That said, I appreciate that a bug has been filed with Mozilla, but that doesn't do anything for us today - and apparently it wasn't a big enough issue to keep FF3 from being launched, so who knows what priority that will ultimately get. On top of that - many of our customers use Firefox, or Safari - both which are currently unusable for us. Anyway, I'd appreciate some feedback on this. As I said, this Problem/Thread is keeping me from buying. If I can find a workable resolution, I think we (and our customers) will be really happy with this solution. Thanks, Luke