Version history

Changes in v1.3 (Current Release)

New Features

• AIR Desktop application support
• Charts can dynamically resize based on the dimensions of the parent containers
• Support for Interactive Legend
• Automated numeric X-Axis in Scatter and Bubble charts
• Regression line in Scatter and Bubble charts
• Quadrants and quadrant labels in Scatter and Bubble and charts
• Number formatting options for the X-Axis scale in Scatter and Bubble charts
• Configurable options for vertical divisional lines, vertical grids and vertical zero plane in Scatter and Bubble charts
• Advance Image/SWF display and alignment support for background
• Added legend in Pie, Doughnut, Funnel and Pyramid charts
• Ability to plot columns on right axis of chart in 3D combination charts
• Chart specific APIs added for Pie, Doughnut and MSCombi3D charts
• Support to specify Y-Axis minimum values in all stacked charts
• Support to align the vertical Axis names with respect to the whole chart or only the chart canvas
• Macros or pre-defined variables to position Annotation better
• Support for left or right alignment of caption and subcaption
• Manually control the position of data values in line and area charts
• Ability to hide zero plane values
• Pack contains a separate Flash SWC component to help render charts in Adobe Flash CS3/CS4/CS5 Applications

Improved

• Major improvement in memory leak issue
• Charts are cached to reduce bandwidth usage
• Charts can now run in Flash Builder Debug mode
• Optimized X-Axis label placement
• The default size of the caption and subcaption has been increased
• Annotations scale automatically when dynamic resizing is enabled
• Customizable options of X-Axis ticks for Multi-series Combination 3D chart has been added

Fix

• "No data to display" issue

Known issues

• The text shown in the Debug Window of charts/gauges in AIR Application can not copied using context menu
• The Custom component for Flash CS3/CS4/CS5 can only render charts
• FusionCharts for Flex does not support Flex's "Spark only" component set

Changes in v1.2 (December 18, 2009)

Changes in v1.1 (Released on July 2, 2009)

Gauges from FusionWidgets now added to FusionCharts for Flex

Support for following new features in gauges:

• Ability to fetch data feed and update the widgets in real time.
• Alert manager facility to raise alerts messages upon change of value in gauges.
• Message logger function to log server/client side messages.
• Annotation facility to mark areas in your charts.

New functionalities in existing charts:

• Export the charts as PDF and images at client-side.
• Rotated text doesn't need embedded fonts any more. Any UTF-8 character can now be rotated and used on the chart thereby making FusionCharts truly multi-lingual.
• Option to specify a text value, which can replace the numeric values that are displayed on chart for each data item.
• Load custom logo on the chart at pre-defined positions and then link the same.
• Option to add your custom menu item to the chart's context menu and then link the same.
• Support for wrapping of caption, sub-caption and tooltips.
• Trend-lines can now have custom tool-text.
• Ability to define custom color palettes for the data plots.
• A lot more events to help you manipulate the chart better from your Flex code.
• Export data from chart as CSV using context menu or Flex API.
• Retrieve the XML of any chart using Flex API.
• Retrieve a chart attribute using Flex API.
• For each chart, a sample data is provided. This feature is now turned off by default, but can be turned on (if needed) using the new FCUseDefaultData attribute.
• Charts have been recompiled at 36fps to solve the memory issues in Firefox.