On 14/04/2010 23:48, trefalgar wrote: > The majority of my flex work revolves around graphing data. If for some > reason a user picks a lot of statistics to graph, over an even longer period > of time, the amount of data that comes back to the Flash application > overwhelms flash, consuming all of the boxes resources and regularly crashing > the browser. >
"A lot" gives nobody any clue of how much data is involved. > Is there anything in the developers bag of tricks to help with this kind of > problem, or is the sheer amount of data too much for the > application/SDK/solution to handle? > If the crashes take place over time, it sounds as though your application is just consuming resources and not releasing or reusing them. In such cases it's often more a matter of programming technique rather than a flash limitation. You'll need to explain how you handle the data and plot the graphs. > I understand I can put a limit on the amount of data returned, but as the > user states, "I can pull it out of the database, via Excel, and it works" > > Tref >