How to create an Adobe Flash / Flex chart component from scratch (with AS3 / MXML)?

Question

I am interested in creating an Adobe Flash UI component for charting / plotting. I am not interested in the charting library; rather, I'm looking for books, articles, or open source projects from which I could learn how to develop a charting component (i.e. one that extends the Sprite logical base class if it's made in pure Flash ActionScript 3.0 or maybe UIComponent / ChartBase / CartesianChart, if done in Flex).

Please tell me some resources, books, etc. that I could use to create this component from scratch.

See also Adobe Flash: Creating an Interactive Chart UI Component from the Ground Up (Without Flex) for a Specific Case of a Non-Flex Component. That is, in Flash with pure ActionScript 3.0.

Answer 1

The best and easiest graphics infrastructure I've seen is degrafa .

The following is a brief comparison of degrafa and its own drawing api . I believe that most of the way degrafa does things has been handled in the new Flex 4 (but still in beta).

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Take a look at Open Flash Chart. Beautiful diagrams with source code written in Flash. Even if you want to write your own, you can take a look at some code to get some ideas.

Answer 4

An interesting book that can help you is Flex 4 fun. But the book covers only the graphic part of the problem. It could be the beginning ...