Flash ChartNotes to the Rescue!

As many of you know, we provide a tool called "ChartNotes" for people to use when they want to add annotations to their charts or inspect the data on the charts.  ChartNotes is a Java-based program that was originally written back in 2003 and has worked well for most of our users since that time.

Unfortunately, ChartNotes doesn't work for all of our users.  For various reasons (some of which we understand, some of which - frankly - we don't) the Java plugin that ChartNotes needs simply will not run on some computers.  If Java doesn't work then ChartNotes won't work either...

...until now.

We've just completed a big effort here to create a version of ChartNotes that using the Flash plugin instead of Java.  This means that if - for whatever reason - you have not been able to use ChartNotes successfully before now, you can try our Flash version which should, hopefully, work better for you.

To use the Flash version, just click on the "Annotate (Flash)" link that's located just below the chart on the SharpCharts Workbench page.  We've highlighted it in yellow so you can't miss it.

Currently, this new Flash version is still in Beta - meaning that we are continuing to test it and fix bugs.  At this point we are pretty sure that most of the problems have been fixes and we'd like everyone to try it out.

Finally, there are no new features in this Flash version.  We consciously decided to keep it as similar to the Java version as possible.  Once we have a stable, working version of things that most people can use successfully, we'll go back and look at adding more features.