Legend problem - size of color boxes

[rich1383]

When building our own FusionCharts graphs, and even when looking at this site's chart samples, on most Macs & PCs here the colored legend boxes ("swatches") are almost too small to tell the color. But on one of our FusionChart developer's PCs, the legend's swatches are sized nicely (about twice as big). See the two screen shots of the 3D demo chart from this site at http://www.archimedes.com/images/legends-sample.html. The "bad" one was taken from Firefox on my Mac (same result on a VMware PC/Firefox and IE, as well as an older Dell PC), the "good" one was taken on a native PC in Firefox (same result for him in IE, and on another Dell box).

 

 

 

I know we can build the legends ourselves, and I understand minor font rendering issues, but I'm curious as to why the box sizes come out so differently, even on machines running the same Flash Player version (most here are on 10.0.45), in Firefox and IE, PC and Mac. (Even a PC running 9.x has tiny boxes.) Any ideas?

 

 

 

N.B. Further testing reveals that the "small box" issue appears on any Mac, and any PC (VM or native) running Windows XP, regardless of Flash Player version; PCs running Vista or Windows 7 get the larger legend boxes... WTH? Video drivers?

 

 

 

--Rich

[Sanjukta]

Hello,

 

We are very excited to announce the release of FusionCharts v3.2 that leverages Flash and JavaScript (HTML5) to create stunning charts. It introduces the new zoom charts, Pareto & Marimekko charts and works with both XML and JSON data.

 

You will be pleased to know that FusionCharts v3.2 comes with the addition of Interactive Legend feature. More details at:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/in/smartcharts/

 

It now works on iPads and iPhones as well. Please visit http://www.fusioncharts.com/ipad/ to find out what's new.

 

Furthermore, with this release, we have changed our licensing policies and pricing for our core products - FusionCharts, FusionWidgets, FusionMaps & PowerCharts.

 

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Thank you and have a good day.

[Guest Angie]

Dear User,

 

We are delighted to announce that PowerCharts is now ready for your iPads and iPhones too. We have just released PowerCharts v3.2. Starting v3.2, PowerCharts has HighCharts embedded within it, and offers both Flash and JavaScript (HTML5) charting . The Flash charts are displayed on a majority of devices and the JavaScript charts on devices that do not support Flash, all of it without writing a line of code.

 

Automatic rendering of JavaScript charts on devices (like iPad and iPhone) where Flash player is not supported.

 

5 new chart types:

 

Heat Map Chart

 

Box and Whisker Chart

 

Step Line Chart

 

Error Line Chart

 

Error Scatter Chart

 

 

* Support for JSON data format.

 

* Support for LinkedCharts, where a single data source controls multiple charts.

 

* Interactive legends in charts allow selective showing/hiding of data series.

 

* Legends now support icons for each data series.

 

* Better management of labels on charts.

 

* Labels now have an auto rendering mode to prevent them from overlapping, the chart selects the best display mode depending on the length of the labels and the width of the chart.

 

* Long labels are truncated, with ellipses appended to the truncated end of each label, and a tooltip bearing the completed label text is displayed when the user hovers over a truncated label.

 

* Support for line breaks and wrapping in all text elements including: caption, sub caption, X-axis title, Y-axis title, Labels and tooltips.

 

* In Line charts, data values can now be positioned either above or below the dataplots. Automatic positioning of data values is also supported.

 

* In Step-line charts dataplots can be joined using vertical lines.

 

* Custom alignment of caption and sub caption using STYLES.

 

* Advanced print management using JavaScript.

 

* Additional options for efficient event handling using JavaScript.

 

* Support for dynamic update of chart properties using JavaScript(barring select scatter and drag charts).

 

* Charts now support % based sizes along with dynamic resizing (barring select scatter and drag charts).

 

 

Learn more about everything new in PowerCharts v3.2 at : http:/ www.fusioncharts.com/PowerCharts/

 

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