Sorry about this - I'm just trying to feel my way round this at the moment.
I want to use the Motion Chart object to view some data created in another application. I took the example given on the website and popped it into a web page on my local machine. It failed with the error I described below. When I looked at the API description I noted the line about putting it on a server. So I stuck it up on my website and it all worked fine. I had tried the Pie chart example and it worked on my local machine so that was what prompted the initial question about why there was a need to put the Motion Chart sample page on the website to get it to work. I have complete control over the data that the application creates so I can output it in any form - but it seems as though, because the interface provided is JavaScript, I need to create an HTML file (maybe I don't - I'm a Java programmer but I have very little knowledge of JavaScript ). To do that I'm happy to create a Data Table 'by declaration' and put that into the HTML file. If I have to go the HTML route I'd like to create the HTML file on the local file system with my Java application then open up a browser view on the HTML file. If there is another way to achieve this then I'd be interested in that. Can I, for example, create a DataTable within the JavaScript in the HTML by calling some of my own Java code? - this would presume that I would have access to the DataTable class (in a jar perhaps?) Thanks ken On Dec 10, 2:06 pm, VizGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I am still don't really understand what you are trying to do...The > motion chart API is the same API used for all other visualizations. > It is javascript based, and the data should be in a DataTable object > available from the visualization library. > How do you want to access the file to read the data? How do you transform it > into a data table? > > VizGuy > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:45 PM, VirtualMachinery > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > > > VizGuy > > > Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I didn't phrase my question very > > well. What I really want to do is put some data into a form that the > > Motion chart visualization software can display locally without having > > to put it on any class of a Server i.e. just read it from the file > > system. I don't have security concerns about it - just convenience for > > the end user. When I try to access my html file via a browser on my > > local filesystem I get a security sandbox violation - is that a > > symptom of why the file has to be installed on a server? My > > understanding is that this was originally the GapMinder software and I > > believe that that library could be run entirely locally - is that > > correct and if so are Google likely to release the software in that > > form? > > > Thanks Again > > Ken Hall > > Virtual Machinery > >www.virtualmachinery.com > > > On Dec 10, 12:22 pm, VizGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The page doesn't have to be on a publicly available server, and so is the > > > data source.It can be all behind any firewall, as long as you have access > > to > > > load the library. > > > Please note that no data is sent to Google (or to any other place) with > > this > > > chart. > > > The only access is to read the chart Flash code. Your data remains on the > > > browser only. > > > > VizGuy > > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:18 PM, VirtualMachinery > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > Very impressed with the Motion Chart visualization and have started > > > > playing around with it. > > > > > There is one drawback for me for the purposes for which I would like > > > > to use it - the page always has to be posted on a publicly available > > > > server to be displayed. I have a number of questions that arise from > > > > this - > > > > > 1. Will this always be the case - i.e. at some time in the future > > > > there will be a version available that will let me view data locally > > > > as I can do with (say) pie-charts? > > > > 2. Is there any sneaky way round this? for example is there some other > > > > way of using the API to display data locally e.g. using Java? > > > > 3. Out of curiosity what is the technical reason for having to use a > > > > public server? > > > > > Thanks > > > > Ken Hall > > > > Virtual Machinery > > > >www.virtualmachinery.com-Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
