Hi Wai Lee, Another option you can consider besides writing a data-source is to import your CSV files to Google spreadsheet. Google spreadsheet is a Google Visualization data-source.
Cheers, VizWiz On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:48 PM, ramen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. I want to use MotionChart to display data contained in CSV > files. If I have these files locally on my server, is there any way > to have javascript access them (read the files into strings), so that > I can parse them and feed them into my google.visualization.DataTable > () object using the api? > > Currently, I have the motionChart visualization running in the > following way: I have just pasted the text files into my source as > multi-line string literals (replacing carriage returns with "\n"), and > I wrote some code to parse these and insert them into the > google.visualization.DataTable() object. I want to allow this code to > access CSV data that is Not located within the source. > > I am aware that there is a package available which allows me to build > a Google data source which parses CSV data and sends it to my viz > app. However, in order to set this up I need to make a servelet and > do all kinds of crap, and I was just wondering if there was an easier > way (which allows me to not do all this servlet stuff). > > Thanks a lot! > > -Wai Lee > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
