Re: FLASH: Creating graphs using Flash/PHP or Flash/ASP

[Helen Triolo]

Sorry to repost, but and hour after I sent it, this hasn't shown up on

the list.  I'd amend the solution to say that setting the yscale of the

rectangle movieclip would probably be better than duplicating it, but it

would be the same idea--you'd use yscale=height of unit increment * 100

(since it's a percent).  Or you could make the rectangle be as tall as

the absolute maximum, if you know that in advance, and then scale each

bar down accordingly.


Chris Stowell wrote:

> 

> I'd like to produce a bar graph that has 5 bars on the x axis (for example)

> with each bar on the axis having a height that is dependant on a variable that

> is passed to the movie.

> 

> Problem is I don't really know where to start with controlling the size of a

> rectangle.

> 

> Any answers or pointers to existing resources?

> 


Chris,


Off the top of my head, you should be able to make a rectangle that's as

wide as a bar and as tall as whatever increment you want to use in your

graph, convert it to a movie clip, and then duplicate it as many times

as the graph is tall.  I did this kind of thing in the pie chart example

I posted yesterday (reads data via ASP from an Access database), only

the slice repeats rather than a rectangle.  You can see it and download

the fla for some example actionscript code at

http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/piechart.html if you want.


Regards,

Helen

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