Exporting svg chart programmatically?

Exporting svg chart programmatically?

February 4, 2015
4:28 am

chrisjmears

Gold

Members

Forum Posts: 54

Member Since:
April 26, 2013

Offline

Hi,

I am using the excellent multi axis chart. I have developed a web app in javascript. What I would like to do is programatically call a url which returns an svg version of the highchart so i can include this in my app.

From reading the documentation it seems to support a method for getSVG (Object additionalOptions) but I cant for the life of me figure out how I would use it to do the above.

Any assistance would be appreciated

Kind Regards

Chris

February 4, 2015
8:43 am

lee

Admin

Forum Posts: 457

Member Since:
March 14, 2011

Offline

Hi Chris,

I can't think of a way that you'd be able to serve the result of getSVG directly via a URL call, since it requires the client to be running JavaScript in a browser.

The closest thing that I can think of would be to have a web browser always open that dynamically loads the chart, use JavaScript to get the SVG string and post it to a database, and then create an API that pulls the string from the database.

lee

February 4, 2015
10:42 am

chrisjmears

Gold

Members

Forum Posts: 54

Member Since:
April 26, 2013

Offline

Hi,

Interestingly it looks like its something which highcharts have already implemented

http://www.highcharts.com/component/content/article/2-articles/news/52-serverside-generated-charts

February 5, 2015
4:47 am

chrisjmears

Gold

Members

Forum Posts: 54

Member Since:
April 26, 2013

Offline

If anyone can help turn that into some code which generates i can use with processing that would be excellent

I use requestimage(image path)

Forum Timezone: America/New_York

Most Users Ever Online: 114

Currently Online:
22 Guest(s)

Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)