Welcome to the 3D chart (v. 2.1) user manual. ADVANCE-MEDIA is glad to be able to present to you one of the most comprehensive 3D charting tools around.
3D charting is the enticing way to visualize data. Why choose 3D? Because we humans got two eyes made for three dimensional sight.
We are used to gather a lot of information with our dimensional perception at a glimpse, 3D will ease the flow of information. This chart application offers a traditional 2D view option as well to satisfy all and lets
the user toggle between the 3D and 2D view with a simple click of a button while runtime. Of course any surface charting is native to 3D!
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Here you will learn how to integrate the 3D chart to your homepage into html or nested inside another Flash 6 up to Flash 10 movie and even in a powerpointTM slide presentation while maintaining full interactivity.
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All data is retrieved via a simple editable XML file. This XML file can be generated by any middleware language such as ASP.NET, ASP, Cold Fusion, JSP, PHP or Pearl etc. to hook-up to any database for advanced dynamic real time charting. Yet this XML file can be created with any text editor, no database is needed, and it does support UTF-8 multilingual fonts.
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Animated and interactive charts, no boring static image picture file. Highly customizable via its XML data structure. Simply set xml attributes to suit a wide range of various homepage designs. Page integration is made very easy. Customizable externally loaded hover sound effects (.mp3) and Flash (swf) or image files will further help to catch the user's attention.
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No extra server sided component is needed, flash chats will not put strain on your server. In case this is not done already, just configure your sever to put out flash's .swf format (mime-type).
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The very small file size will boot quickly. The chart movie will be cached by the browser, a second chart movie displaying completely different data will not load the entire movie all over again resulting in a swift experience.
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Multi and single series are supported. Combine Column floatingColumn Cylinder floatingCylinder Line Area (Wall) and Surface charts colored by series or regions (height) plus combine the innovative Candlestick 3D chart type for advanced stock charting. A second movie will display your Pie or Doughnut charts with slicing option. All charts feature drill down links and much more...
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The 3D charts 2.1 comprise three slightly different versions. A recommended Flash 10 AS3 version which features a fullscreen option variable framerate and 20 digit 64-bit double-precision number format as specified by the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE-754). Only the Flash 10 version supports alpha transparency effects for any chosen font. A Flash 9 AS3 version which is almost identical to the Flash 10 version. This Flash 9 version is not quite as fast due to the performance boost of Flash 10 and the new Flash 10 Vector driven Array storage capabilities. Both Flash 9 and 10 versions can be embedded or nested into your own Flash 9-10 AS3 project but the Flash 10 version requires the Flash 10 Player Plug-In. Plus an older and slower Flash 6 MX AS1 version which can be embedded in AS1-AS2 (Flash 6-8) with 14 digit number support. All versions provide the scientific exponential E Notation variable decimal thousand and thousandth separators customizable number scaling as well as number prefix and suffix.
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