If you're rendering the charts in the browser player and then pushing a bitmap back to the server, that needs to run in a browser (or in AIR, also not headless).
Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of netdeep Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] flex and automation There are no flex user groups in my area and I've been trying for a long time to find a solution to this problem with no success. I need to generate a series of charts every few minutes/hours/days on an automated basis. I pull the data for the charts from the database and draw the chart, then save it as an image and potentially notify someone where they can find the image as a png or a pdf. I am using java on the backend to communicate with the database and flex to draw the charts. The same app which draws the chart can also be called by a user to get a live snapshot. But the automation just isn't working. It works fine on my local development machine, but this application is deployed on a headless server and the flex process never gets to launch since it needs to run on a browser. I've looked at solutions for getting it to run headless but so far I can't get it to work. Does anyone know how to automate flex in this way? I know flex is meant to be interactive, but is there anyway I can still use the flex charting for automated output?
