Timepedia Chronoscope
Writing about web page http://timepedia.org/chronoscope/
I'm always looking for charting solutions and this one seems particularly nice. Built on Google's Web Toolkit it can support a huge number of data points (tens of thousands) which can be streamed to the browser. It says on the blurb that it supports 3 authoring models:
- As a GWT Widget using Java
- As a Javascript widget
- Pure HTML+CSS using microformats
.. which sounds fairly flexible. It's not ready for IE just yet but it's one to watch. We use the Coldfusion flash charts at the moment which are very attractive but I must say this looks as good.
Only XY series and bar for now, but if that's what you need then great!
Simon Harper
28 Nov 2007 22:02
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[Skip to the latest comment]Steven Carpenter
Hi Simon – have you looked at Flex Charting too? There are some powerful components in Flex for this kind of thing and it plays nicely with Coldfusion.
29 Nov 2007, 22:03
Simon Harper
Good point – there are some very nice Flex facilities out there. I recently looked at the flex datagrid which in my opinion was the best solution of it’s type (although not as good as the home made solution we ended up with!). If I’m not mistaken, though, you have to pay for Flex charting. Not a show stopper, but that’s one advantage of the software here.
30 Nov 2007, 09:07
Steven Carpenter
It does cost, but a Flex Builder w/charting licence only costs £35 according to the latest Adobe CLP prices on the ITS web site – might be worth a go at that price :-)
30 Nov 2007, 16:01
Simon Harper
Blimey, that does sound good. Thanks for the tip.
30 Nov 2007, 16:38
Steven Carpenter
No problem :-) in fact Flex Builder is about to become free to education users anyway – if you do take a look I’d be interested to see how you get on. We have a Flash/Flex developers forum too – one or two of us have been using it and liking it.
30 Nov 2007, 21:41
Ray Cromwell
Chronoscope suits very specific needs and doesn’t do quite the same thing as Flex charts (which are great BTW). It was designed to allow highly interative zooming/panning through huge numbers of data points, to integrate nicely with AJAX applications, and to support multiple platforms (browser JS, server-side rendered images, mobile devices, etc)
-Ray
02 Dec 2007, 15:05
John Dale
We bought a licence for a set of Flash charting widgets called FusionCharts and we’ve been very pleased with them. They take XML as an input file, and you can control just about every aspect of the chart rendition. It does a wide variety of chart types – horizontal and vertical bar, line, pie, XY scatter plot, bubble, stack, etc.
19 Dec 2007, 09:34
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