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Hello, a short yay or nay would be helpful or if alternative paths like dynamically adding a background to the flash movie via JS and then saving the image. THX!

Hello, we are currently stuck at a potential dead end with the save image as function as we would like to allow our users to download the charts they just requested as jpg or png. Because of the website design the charts have a transparent background and it seems that the export function does not provide an alpha value. The result is that when the image is composed via Perl::GD you get a Chart without Anti Aliasing around the outer edges as pixels that were at 50% opacity are painted with full opacity. This leads to very ugly charts, esspecially concerning the outer texts. Is there a way to make the export accordingly so the alpha information is provided with the rest of the datastream to allow a proper placement on a default background? I fear that might be a gamebreaker. Is it instead possible to set a background image for the export only so the datastream is already with a proper background? Thanks!

Then it's at least not a stupid question! Thanks for the speedy support!

Kinda stupid but can one change the font color and size of the status messages (invalid XML, no Data loaded), maybe even the progress bar on load? The default settings are gray blur with our used background which makes it hard to decipher if one encounters a problem.

I resolve this kind of scenario by making a complete chart update (aka the server creates a different XML). Works quite well even for internet features. Might not be the fastest way to do it, however the only other solution I can think of is to have the JavaScript hand the XML to the FusionChart and filter it beforehand via a DOM manipulation. I don't think that's very good for big charts though.

Drats, just saw that you provide this with PowerCharts. Missed it before.

Ok, I currently get alot of input and requests how to improve our charts which is why I always got another question. Is it possible to invert the y-Axis somehow (behavior as if the datavalues were y = x*(-1) )? Reason is that I have a few performance numbers were the lower the value, the better it is (e.g. you have some ranking) At the same time the axis shouldn't have negative values because ranking can obviously only be positive. I was just wondering because it might be more intuitive if the best rank is the tallest column and the worst rank the smallest. Just wondering. I guess I could somehow relable the y-Axis.

Can you not make your Javascript or server weed out which datasets should end up in the dataXML for the chart? You're making an update() anyway, right?

Hey, thanks! Very cool.

Hello, I was wondering if one can draw a line chart within a XY chart. The idea would be to have tons of datapoint and the line chart is a calculated spline weighted by the nearest datapoints. The calculation would be done by the sever but it doesn't look like lines are possible in XY charts. Just out of curiosity, it would help me with some research at my work.

If I remember correctly this chart xml looks like: dataset dataset dataset dataset resulting into a stacked column By writing this I got two columns side by side in this swf: dataset dataset dataset dataset dataset And line charts work with "lineset" You can also control which axis a graph uses by setting some yAxis parameter to P or S (primary or secondary)

Hello, which is why I posted in the suggestion thread. The thing is that those are neat visual effects, but given one often works with a predetermined CI a greater control over such effects would be nice to work them better into the rest of the site. Somewhat more than an on/off switch. As I regard rounded columns and the glass effect two distinct effects it would be nice to have some control over them in the future. As an addendum controlling the sheen and opacity of the glass effect would be nice, too. In my current project the CI would actual demand for rounded edges in column charts if possible, but it absolutely doesn't work with the glass effect because it doesn't use any 3D effects. Given only an option of "on" or "off" I'm then forced to not use it at all which is kind of a shame. Regards, Holger

Hello, I could really need the round edges for column graphs, but currently it only is available in conjunction with the glass effect which is visual overkill. It would be nice to simply separate the two effects so one has an either/or choice. E.g. in the current design I have tons of round edges so a column chart with rounded edges would be preferable, but all the graphics are flat surfaces making the glass effect fall out of the design scheme completely. I know it's neither something big or important, but given these two effects have a great visual impact on a web page with Fusioncharts, it would be nice to control them better.

I'm not sure, but it seemed to me that this is a Firefox bug/feature. We had the same behaviour with entirely different chart framework. Flash movies several pages down would only start to load, if you scrolled down to them, not when finished with the rest. I'm not sure this can be resolved within the Flash as it seems to be how the browser deals with the Flash movie (and probably when it allows it to make a resource request), but would be great to know if one can set up FusionCharts. Maybe Firefox 3.0 deals with this differently.

Hello, I'm currently checking FusionCharts out for our next web application which will be rather charts heavy and I wondered wether the glass Effect on the column2D charts can be switched off somehow. The documentation seems to only apply to activating both or nothing while the current CI design we received wants column charts with rounded edges in an overview page, but the glass effect does not work at all with the current design specifications. Any pointers if this is possible? Thanks!