January 2008
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By barneyb on January 18, 2008
Another update to FlexChart this evening, providing set and series colors (both fills and strokes), an option for including/excluding the legend when exporting a chart to PNG, and a few new examples showcasing the features (including some really ugly developer art).
With the coloring support, the 'Grouped Series' example makes a lot more visual sense, so [...]
Posted in flex, tools
By barneyb on January 17, 2008
Another batch of changes to FlexChart.
First is grouped series, which is hard to explain, but easy to understand. Go hit the demo and select "Grouped Series" from the dropdown. The chart layout has always been possible, but the legend just displayed a flat series list with no awareness of the groupings. To see the old [...]
Posted in flex, tools
By barneyb on January 14, 2008
Long time no blog… I've updated my FlexChart component slightly, as well as repackaged it for easier consumption. The new feature is the availability of a 'dataTipFunction' attribute on the root 'chart' element, which will be called to format data tips. It gets passed an object with various keys about the backing chart item. Since [...]
Posted in flex, tools
By barneyb on January 8, 2008
If any of you use GMail, you'll know that you can shift click the checkboxes on the conversation list to select a range of conversations (i.e. click the second conversation's checkbox and then shift-click the tenth conversation's checkbox). You can also deselect the same way (click the seventh, and then shift-click the fourth). [...]
Posted in javascript, tools
By barneyb on January 7, 2008
I've posted a simple demo app for both DSLs that you can play with. It's included in the distribution as index.cfm, so you'll get it if you pull down the source from SVN. I've also created a readme.txt file in the distribution with the text of my intro blog post.
I also made a [...]
Posted in coldfusion, tools
By barneyb on January 5, 2008
I use a pair of stacked DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) for searching, reporting, and goal management in a couple applications. A discussion at work (with Joshua and Koen) provided the solution for the final piece I wanted to implement before releasing them. The first layer is for parsing query strings, and the latter [...]
Posted in coldfusion, tools