I wanted to start a thread on user experience on Flex3 charting or visualization component.
I had been pusing back hard the last 2 years on moving out realtime charting from current serverside image generation to flex charting. Finally with flex 3 prof , I caved in. Hight cpu usage on servers in our production env is of course another motivating factor :) The state of the charting components seems to be in a bit of a sorry state though. Demo looks complelling when used with static data. Moment we start doing some realtime refesh we're hit with memory and cpu usage issues. Please look at bug http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15710 for more on this. These bugs have been filed a while and ago and doesn't seem to have been placed high on the priority list. So I wanted to find out if people in the industry are using flex charting solution in realtime dashboards. If so what are your experiences. My experince so far in moving our system to flex charting has been quite rocky. here are few issues I'm struggling with 1) With frequent chart updates (say evebry 5 sec), there is lot of memory leaks not easily identifiable via flex profiler. 2) Browsers especially IE6 do not claim back memory efficiently. 3) Bar chart frequest update has hig cpu usage Thanks Kumar Pandey
