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If you could think of a reason to choose some other charts, now you don’t. Forget about editing the settings with text editors – since now you can configure your charts with visual editor. Simply click on checkboxes, numeric steppers, sliders and see the result instantly! You will be able to explore all the features of amCharts much faster and with a big pleasure.

The visual editor will generate clean, error-free XML which you’ll be able to paste to your settings file, or it can generate HTML and include your settings (and also data) directly to the HTML file. If you do not generate your data dynamically, all you need to do is to copy and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page and upload the chart folders to your web server.

Check amCharts visual editor.

We have just released the new version of ASP.NET Controls for amCharts. This release brings ASP.NET Controls up to speed with the current version of amCharts Bundle, adds some missing features and a feature to set parameters for Flash object through the controls.

Get the new version at our download page.

Here’s the change log for this release:

• FEATURE ADDED: ColumnChart, LineChart: Added logarithmic settings for axes
• FEATURE ADDED: ColumnChart: added ColumnDataLabelsAlwaysOn property to ColumnChart
• FEATURE ADDED: ColumnChart, PieChart: Pattern and PatternColor settings added to ColumnChartGraph, ColumnChartValuesDataItem and PieChartDataItem
• FEATURE ADDED: added FlashParams collection to set parameters on Flash object. Use Value for parameter name, Text for value.
• BUGFIX/FEATURE ADDED: PieChart: LabelRadius was missing from PieChartDataItem
• BUGFIX/FEATURE ADDED: PieChart: PieStartAngle property was missing in PieChart
• BUGFIX: XyChart: Value settings for Y axis were rendered as settings for X axis

Dear amCharts users, first, let me wish you you a happy New Year! Quite soon amCharts will introduce something big and new and free – you will be indeed surprised! And now about the the main news in 1.6.1.0 version.

All charts:

JavaScript functions are cued now – previously you could call one JS function at a time and call another only after the chart finished the
previous process. Now, you can call several functions one after another, without waiting for the chart to finish doing something. The functions are cued and all of them will be executed.

New JavaScript function amProcessCompleted(chart_id, process)
This function is called after some process initialized by some JS function is finished. For example, if you make the chart to reload data by calling reloadData function, after the data is reloaded, the chart will call amProcessCompleted function and the “process” parameter will be “reloadData” – the same as the function name you called. Check examples/javascript_control example to see this in action.

Pie and Column charts now support patterns. Check examples/patterns/ example from examples folder.

You can find the full list of changes and fixes in the changelog.txt files – they are in the zip file of every chart.