I am creating a project which involves the visualisation of signals and timeline, so I am looking for a charting program which allows me to zoom in and zoom out and with additional functionality e.g. drag and drop or highlight the area.
I have no preference whether it should be WinForms or Web apps, and I am fine to program in either Flash or Silverlight. So I would like to see if you guys can recommend some tools for use. Thank you in advance
Regards, Andy.
Google Charts is a powerful, free data visualization tool that is specifically for creating interactive charts for embedding online. It works with dynamic data and the outputs are based purely on HTML5 and SVG, so they work in browsers without the use of additional plugins.
Interactive visualization technology enables the exploration of data via the manipulation of chart images, with the color, brightness, size, shape and motion of visual objects representing aspects of the dataset being analyzed.
To start we will create our html markup for the graph. We will create a <div> with the class “graph-wrapper”. Inside of this <div> we will add two more <div>. The first one will have the “graph-info” class, this div will contain the graph legend and the buttons that will allow us to switch between graphs.
Some Flash options:
You didn't mention JS, but it might be worth looking at Flot, gRaphael, HighCharts or Protovis - there's a great breakdown of javascript timeline optionts on this SO Answer.
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