Column Chart with Item Renderer – updated

Okay, it didn’t take me long to get back and do some more fiddling with the Column Chart Item Renderer. I went ahead and changed the static ArrayCollection to a dynamic one, because I was trying to figure out something with Themes and needed a button and the button should do something. The ArrayCollection is fairly simple for this chart, so all I did was create a couple of random values from 0 to 100 and made the “date” value the counter time 10. I set it up so that you can press a button and create new data, which Continue reading Column Chart with Item Renderer – updated

Column Chart with Fill Function

When you have a column chart, sometimes you want to change the column colors based on the data. A question in the Flex Forum asked how to alter the column color on each column. To do this, yo need to use the fillFunction on a ColumnSeries to set the color of the fill. One issue with doing this, is how it affects the chart legend. If you use the fills property or the fillFunction to define the fills of chart items, and you want a legend, you must manually create the Legend object for that chart. But, this just gives Continue reading Column Chart with Fill Function

Stacked Column Chart with Line Series

On the Flex Forum, I was attempting to help someone find their issue to a Stacked Column Chart with a Line Series. The y-axes values were not corresponding with the data being provided. This seemed like a glitch and I even attempted a work around by finding the minimum and maximum values. Finally, after looking at the Stacking Columns example and the Multiple Axis Example, reconstructed the chart using the static objects instead of dynamically creating the chart. From there, I recreated the chart items in a function and determined that the first issue the poster was having was building Continue reading Stacked Column Chart with Line Series