Hi, (I am from Adobe). I'll try to fill in the holes below: A) The charting components are not being outsourced. :) B) That said, I am sure third parties will make additional and more varied and advanced charting components than what we ship. That would be complementary and excellent. C) We do not currently have plans to add a Gnantt chart component to the next release of Flex Charting. I do know of a third party we work with closely that might have such a component later this year, and I am sure that if and as soon as they can, they'll talk about it on this list, solicit feedback etc. I can't speak for them, but I am hopefull it will meet the needs of this frequent request--they do great work and know Gnatt charts well. In addition to that, I know folks who have done custom versions, and as Doug points out, anyone can keep going on the path he proposed. Adobe by itself will never meet the needs of every app; open source as well as commercial components are a critical part of the overall ecosystem. Hope this helps, -David
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Pearson Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:53 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Will there be a microsoft project like gantt chart in new versions of flex? Sorry if i offended you Doug. I subscribe to your RSS feed and really appreciate all your input to the community. I agree with you that if Adobe is going to make the component that I should try to do it my self. I have actually been trying to do it and found out that it's not an easy thing! That's why at Apollo Camp I went into the "ask the experts" room to see what adobe's plans are for it. I have herd adobe employees elude to the possibility of a future component and the scheduling component on adobe labs looks really promising. Although it's a good learning exersize I didn't want to duplicate effort. Out of four employees none of them knew the answer(although they answered all of my apollo questions!) I guess the next charting components are being outsourced. They suggested that I clearly ask the question on flex coders and that someone from adobe would have an answer. So that's why I asked. If they don't have any plans I will continue to try to build it myself. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Doug McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bah, vaporware!?! Yeah, ok, so you're right to think that I wasn't planning > on spending alot of time on that Gantt chart component, and I realize that > example is VERY basic and not even close to a complete gantt chart > component, but making it into a better component is in the back of my mind. > And I do watch this list (and the blog posts and all that noise). > > I think Adobe's position is that they're not going to make a Gantt chart (or > whatever Component X you want) anytime soon, and that they'd like the > community to really step up to make some of these components that people > want. There's no reason someone can't take the approach I took with my > example and add all the functionality you want. I might do it piece by piece > as well, but it's not a top priority for me right now. > > So I think the better approach is to lay out what you want, just like you > did here, and ask people in the community to do it. Or even better, take a > stab at it yourself and ask people to help. > > Doug > > On 3/17/07, Nate Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sort of, but his example, although cool, is just vapor ware. > > > > I would imagine a full fledge Gantt component to have a time lineline, > > an api to set startDate, endDate and percent complete. A way to save > > the "state" of a chart to use in base lining. A way to set relations > > between tasks like start/start or finish/start. > > > > For an even more advanced chart I would like to be able to extend it > > so that I could assign a resource to a task. I would like the gantt > > chart to have a grid connected to it to show the values of what the > > chart represents (i.e. start date, duration, resource). > > > > That's just a few features that I would like to see. I don't really > > think it would be that hard for adobe to make something like this. > > > > -Nate > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Andrew > > Muller" <andrew.muller@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Nate > > > > > > You mean something like this: > > > > > > > > > > http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/02/01/building-a-gantt-chart-component-i n- <http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/02/01/building-a-gantt-chart-component- in-> flex/ > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > On 16 Mar 2007 22:08:00 -0700, Nate Pearson <napearson99@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just asked some adobe people at Apollo Camp but they didn't know. > > > > They suggested that I explicitly ask the question on flex coders. > > > > > > > > So here it is. > > > > > > > > Will there be any gantt chart type component in new versions of flex? > > > > Will the scheduler that is in labs be expanded to work as a gantt > > chart? > > > > > > > > Thanks guys, I'm really enjoying Apollo Camp. > > > > > > > > -Nate > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > Andrew Muller > > > http://www.webqem.com <http://www.webqem.com> > > > > > > > > > >
