A great way to generate images on the server side is using php gd functions, they are relatively easy to manipulate and best of all, free:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php Best regards, Ricardo Guimaraes Avatar Interactive http://www.avatarinteractive.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Jason Abate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
