Adobe Flex SDK 3.3.0.4852, here it goes again
Am I wrong or the Charting Components are parts of the Free Flex SDK?
If I’m not, the Adobe Flex Dev Team forgot to implement these Charting Components in their last SDK, once again.
One fixed or semi-fixed thing is you don’t need to add the “playerglobal.swc” when you create a project.
I said semi-fixed because, if you want to build a Flex project using Flash 10 player features, you need to remove the playerglobal.swc (FP9) and replace it by the playerglobal.swc (FP10). And If you don’t forget to change your HTML Wrapper “Required Flash Player Version” on 10.0.12, with a bit of chance, it will work correctly.
Hopefully, these tricks are common for experimented Flex/Eclipse users. But think one instant to the poor developpers wanting to learn some MXML and stuff… They have to be very very patient to set up their IDE before starting to enjoy the power of Flex.
Jeff Mathiot
2009-03-17 at 4:34 pmHi,
I think you made a little mistake in the first sentence of your post : as far as I know, the charting components are a part of the Datavisualization package since version 3.0.
Regards,
Quentin Lengelé
2009-03-18 at 4:23 pmI don’t think so.
Just try this :
1. Create a Flex Project with the last 3.3.0.4852 SDK
2. From here, you can see you don’t have the charting components in the components windows when your Design View is opened.
3. Try to import datavisualization.swc lib (from “\flex\sdks\3.0.0\frameworks\libs\” of the SDK 3.0.0)
4. Still no charting components in the components window…
There is no way to use it, even if you try to import that lib in your projects.
If you want to use Charting Components, you must use the default SDK of Flex Builder (3.0.0).
That means you cannot compile your project with the last SDK… so, without Flash Player 10 features (these features are only built-in since 3.2.0.3958)
I think I’m not making a mistake by saying there is no charting components in the Flex 3.3.0.4852 SDK.
Q.
Jeff Mathiot
2009-03-18 at 7:10 pmYou are actually right.
There is no charting components into Flex SDK because they are not a part of the opensource Flex SDK (due to licensing reasons).
The problem you are pointing out seems to be related to Flex Builder, not to the SDK itself. Using mxmlc you can compile an application linked to the datavisualization package without any problem.
That why I said you made a (little) mistake.
Regards,
Jeff Mathiot
2009-03-18 at 7:15 pmFlexBuilder uses hard-coded path to identify where it can find the libraries it should render into the design view. I guess that copying the datavisualization.swc library from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flex/sdk/datavisualization_sdk3.3.zip to SDK_3.3_USED_BY_FB/frameworks/libs may resolve your problem.
Benoit Jadinon
2009-03-20 at 3:58 pmlooks like they’ve just released it as a package, a few days later
and it’s now public :
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/
see “Flex 3 Data Visualization Components”
Quentin Lengelé
2009-03-23 at 11:11 amOh! At last… it’s saving me actually.
Thx guys.