Google Finance includes a very nice, flexible chart of stock values and volume, allowing the user to quickly look at different date ranges and retrieve specific values. Inspired by this, I coded a very similar graph/chart for a project. I then decided to create an AS3 class for the chart so that I and others could quickly add it to any project with just a few lines of code for configuration. The initial class was just over 200 lines, but with additional features the class has ballooned to over 850 lines of code.
Piccolo is a toolkit that supports the development of 2D structured graphics programs, in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs), in particular. A ZUI is a new kind of interface that presents a huge canvas of information on a traditional computer di