ChartDirector 5.1 (ColdFusion Edition)

Introduction


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Welcome to ChartDirector

ChartDirector is a powerful chart component for creating professional looking charts for web and windows applications. Key features include:

  • Flexibility : ChartDirector's object oriented API allows you to control and customize chart details, providing you with tremendously flexibility to design the charts you want.

  • Advanced Color System : ChartDirector's extended color system supports not only solid colors, but also semi-transparent colors, gradient colors, patterns colors (wallpapers), and colors that change at user-defined positions to represent zones and thresholds. All ChartDirector objects can be filled using these colors.

  • CDML : ChartDirector Mark Up Language (CDML) technology allows rich formatting of text with embedding icons and images. CDML is supported in all ChartDirector text positions, including chart titles, legend keys, axis labels, data labels, etc.
  • Programming Languages

    ChartDirector is available in the following programming languages and component technologies.

    Supported Platforms

    ChartDirector for Java and ColdFusion are written in pure Java and is platform independent. ChartDirector for ASP/COM/VB and .NET are supported on Windows 2000/2003/2008/Vista/XP/7. ChartDirector for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and C++ are supported on Windows 2000/2003/2008/Vista/XP/7, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.