Thanks Dwayne. That's lots of really useful information that we can put into a JIRA issue when it's all up and running and accessible to all.
Now you just have to persuade someone to work on it :) David. -----Original Message----- From: Dwayne Henderson [mailto:its.code.in.h...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2012 10:43 To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Flex Charts: Will they improve? * 4. #horizontal-axis-renderer.axis-lines, #horizontal-axis-renderer.tick-placements, #vertical-axis-renderer.axis-lines, #vertical-axis-renderer.tick-placements { display: none; } On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Dwayne Henderson < its.code.in.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot everyone for listening! > > I'm just a poor CSS developer, I'm afraid I can't really contribute yet. > All I can do is beg for full CSS support: > > (some of this logic may be a bit off, but I hope y'all understand > nonetheless) > > 1. Positioning items in a row: > > <s:layout> > <s:HorizontalLayout /> > </s:layout> > > Oughta be: #column-chart { display: inline; } > > 2. Hiding shadows: > > <mx:seriesFilters> > <fx:Array /> > </mx:seriesFilters> > > Oughta be: #column-chart { box-shadow: none; } > > Or: .drop-shadow { display: none; } > > 3. Hiding grid lines: > > <mx:backgroundElements> > <fx:Array /> > </mx:backgroundElements> > > Oughta be: .grid-lines { display: none; } > > 4. Hiding axis lines and tick placements: > > <mx:horizontalAxisRenderers> > <mx:AxisRenderer id="horizontalAxis" axis="{chart.horizontalAxis}" > showLine="false" tickPlacement="none" /> </mx:horizontalAxisRenderers> > <mx:verticalAxisRenderers> > <mx:AxisRenderer id="verticalAxis" axis="{chart.verticalAxis}" > showLine="false" tickPlacement="none" /> </mx:verticalAxisRenderers> > > Oughta be: > > #horizontal-axis-renderer.gridlines, > #horizontal-axis-renderer.tick-placements, > #vertical-axis-renderer.gridlines, > #vertical-axis-renderer.tick-placements { display: none; } > > 8. No made up declaration names (make those selectors instead): > > .myAxisStyles { showLine: false; tickPlacement: none; } > > Oughta be: .axis-lines, .tick-placements { display: none; } > > 5. Use real size units: > > mx|DataTip { paddingLeft: 3; paddingTop: 3; } > > Oughta be: .datatip { padding-left: 3px; padding-top: 3px; } > > 7. Support CSS shorthand: > > .datatip { padding: 3px 0 0 3px; } > > > Thanks again! > > --Dwayne > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote: > >> > From: Dwayne Henderson [mailto:its.code.in.h...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: 17 January 2012 00:17 >> > >> > Does anybody know if this will change? >> > Are there any new Flex charting libraries in the making? >> >> +1 to what Roland said. If you feel up to it, get writing them >> +yourself >> and >> submit them. It's the best way of ensuring that a new Flex charting >> library gets written. Even if you don't think your skills are up to >> it, you can still help by documenting what you think is wrong with >> the current ones and how they could be improved. This may well spur >> someone else to get involved. >> Adobe Flex work isn't just confined to committers (I'm not one after all): >> everyone in the Flex community is encouraged to take part. :) >> >> David. >> >> >
