This got answered the main adobe forum. There’s a bug where the charts use TextField’s htmltext for measuring and the “<“ messes up.
On 8/15/11 4:42 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Try: {Month:"<Jan", Profit:2000, Expenses:1500}, Michael J. Regert Please consider the environment before printing this email. Confidentiality Notice | This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jimi_prajapati Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Problem with showing less then sign as axis label <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- charts/GridLinesBothInternal.mxml --> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"; xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" height="600"> <fx:Declarations> <fx:Array id="bge"! ;> <mx:GridLines gridDirection="both"/> </fx:Array> </fx:Declarations> <fx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; [Bindable] public var expenses:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([ {Month:"<Jan", Profit:2000, Expenses:1500}, {Month:"Feb", Profit:1000, Expenses:200}, {Month:"Mar", Profit:1500, Expenses:500} ]); ]]> </fx:Script> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout/> </s:layout> <s:Panel title="Column Chart"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout/> </s:layout> <mx:ColumnChart id="myChart" showDataTips="true" dataProvider="{expenses}" backgroundElements="{bge}" > <mx:horizontalAxis> <mx:CategoryAxis dataProvider="{expenses}" categoryField="Month" /> </! mx:horizontalAxis> <mx:series> <mx:ColumnSer! ies xField="Month" yField="Profit" displayName="Profit" /> <mx:ColumnSeries xField="Month" yField="Expenses" displayName="Expenses" /> </mx:series> </mx:ColumnChart> <mx:Legend dataProvider="{myChart}"/> </s:Panel> </s:Application> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe System, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
