Creating a line chart component – part 1

Welcome to the last topic in our series of tutorials about creating components. In this tutorial, we’ll create a more complicated component compared with the previous examples. We’ll make a simple line chart component that allows the user to add titles, change the line colour and plot values and labels. We’ll draw the line and chart axes dynamically using the Flash drawing API.

Specifically, I’ll show you how to:

• Plan the component so we determine what parameters the user will be able to set
• Create the line chart movie clip
• Create the line chart class file including the drawing methods
• Generate and use the component

You can download the completed files for part 1from the blue Properties box that contains the article PDF. There's a heading titled Code Download and you can click the Details link next to it to get the zip file.