If you're looking to generate JPG or PNG images on the server-side, check out ChartDirector from http://www.advsofteng.com/. You can produce pretty impressive looking graphs, and they support a wide range of languages. This should be much easier to do than capturing images from a Flash-based approach.
-jason On Aug 28, 6:33 am, jbishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a desktop application that I want to port to the iPhone. There > are two complexities. The iPhone app needs to sync to the desktop app > and it needs to be able to display a line chart or a bar chart or > preferably both. > > I’m trying to work through this second issue first. N.B. I don’t code > myself so excuse any ignorance; I wear all of the other hats. > > As there isn’t a native charts library for the iPhone I have to find a > different solution. Here are the ones that I’ve heard of so far: > > - Generate jpg images from a server using flash-based charting (I > already use AnyChart flash for the desktop app) > - In the same way use the Google Charts API, returning png images to > the phone > - Use the iPhone’s native graphics library > - Port chart libraries for Windows Mobile platform to iPhone. > > I expect the last option isn’t very realistic or wise. > > I would appreciate any input on this issue. > > e.g. Are there options apart from the above? Are the time-lag and > connection issues for a round trip to a server significant? Do any of > the options stand-out as being extremely complex? > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
