View Angle Chooser is a UI control that comes included with the Charting 2008.1 product. It displays three sides of a rectangular box which can be rotated using a mouse to select the best chart viewing angle. Check out the Charting toolbar demo to see it in action. In this post I will explain how it was implemented. The challenge was to efficiently draw 2D shapes (which represent projected 3D surfaces) using only standard DHTML technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS and DOM. There is no standard Ja...

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ComponentArt Charting 2008.1 introduces an easy way for end users to customize the look and feel of charts. This is accomplished through a JavaScript client-side API. Charting toolbar demo in ComponentArt’s new Charting gallery shows how this can be done. The toolbar demo allows the end user change the following properties: Chart type Color scheme Orientation View angle Projection Perspective XY, YZ and ZX plane visibility Legend visibility Series order Series highlighting Choice of render...

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