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Today I found this website Open Flash Chart project.

It’s a FREE flash chart component and they are very beautiful! They have line, pie, and bar charts and more. I am going to try this today later, but I am just make a quick post so I can review back again.

This image is not actual flash, by the way. I just don’t have time to set it up yet.

Here is the authors comments why this beautiful commercial quality flash component is FREE.

And it’s really free?!

Yes. Once upon a time I had to deal with a company who sell flash charting components, their component had a bug that I needed fixing, so I emailed them about it asking when it’d be fixed. (Remember that I had paid real money for this software.) They were so incompetent, rude and obnoxious that after three or four weeks of emails I thought to myself “I could learn Flash and Actionscript and write my own charting component, release it as Open Source, host it on sourceforge and build up a community of helpful coders faster than they can fix a single bug.” And that is what I did. And that is why it is free. I guess the moral of the lesson is: don’t piss off your customers.

Only if I had that passion , knowledge, and the time to do this kind work. I envy him. I would like to create my own version of flash movie player, you know. But I am too lazy.

Website: Open Flash Chart project.
Open Flash Chart version 2

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