The other day I was working on some charts for a client which had a static minimum and maximum value set on the vertical axis and ran into a problem with data not being drawn on the chart. It didn’t matter whether it was a LineChart or a ColumnChart or a PlotChart, the data simply would not be drawn because it was out of range of the axis minimum or maximum values.

In the case of a PlotChart it would not matter much, but in the case of a LineChart or ColumnChart it would present a lot of unwanted results ranging from misleading representation of the data to animation problems.

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Last week I was involved in a small Flex project at work and given the fact that this project was small we decided to try out a new framework. The choice was either Mate or Swiz and at the flip of a coin fate decided it was going to be Swiz.

Given the short time (just a day and a half or so) that I was working with Swiz I used a 5 part tutorial by Brian Kotek to get me up and running with Swiz.

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FormItem’s in Flex have this rather annoying bug where you can not change the indicatorSkin at runtime. Peter deHaan filed a bug about this a long time ago in Adobe’s bug tracking system but unfortunately this has still not been fixed.

However, there is a workaround for this that, well.. works!

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It was bound to happen some day and I recon my employer will have a grin on his face when he sees this, but yes, I’ve started blogging.

The main reason why I started this blog was to have a home for things I’ve ran into during my development time and created things or found a workaround for something that could be useful to others.

Most likely you will not see frequent updates as I simply add content whenever I run into things of which I think “Hmm, this could help some poor soul somewhere that is just as frustrated about this problem as I was when I tried to solve this”. Hopefully you are here right now and think: Yup! thx mate!