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one thing was abundantly clear at the 2004 max conference in new orleans: the third-party flash market is growing rapidly. this is due to macromedias decision to provide apis and open standards. the result of this decision is that the flash developer will now have a virtual cornucopia of exciting new tools that will increase productivity and flexibility.
one of the most interesting of these new tools is put out by a california company called infommersion and is called xcelsius. this tool will allow you to connect a microsoft excel spreadsheet into a self-contained flash file that can be displayed on the web or even exported into a powerpoint presentation. once inside the flash file, you can use powerful flash components to create "what-if" scenarios. if all that isnt enough, you can then save the "what-if" results back to the original spreadsheet.
lets look at an example.
when we first open xcelsius you see a screen similar to figure 1.
xcelsius has 42 built-in components and 9 chart formats to assist you in putting together a dynamic presentation. one could easily assume that as this product grows, even more components will be available. however, even if that does not happen, what is available now will more than handle most needs.
we begin by selecting the type of component or chart you want to use. in this example, i will use the bar chart and then place that ch... 下一页