The Flex framework offers some charting components that are fairly easy to use. It is not ActionScript per say, but it still compiles to the SWF format. Because the resulting charts look good and are pretty customizable, we decided to cover it in one recipe. There is a downside though to using this: the Flex framework will be included in your SWF, which will increase its size. Future recipes will explain how to do the same thing using just ActionScript.
The following are the steps required to build a bar chart using the Flex framework.
Copy and paste the following code in the Main.mxml file. When you run it, it will show you a bar chart.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
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