Flex 3 to Flex 4 Migration – 2

Uh-oh. Big problem with charts going from Flex 3 to Flex 4: ColumnSeries displayName is not showing up.

Flex 3 (displayName showing)

Using the Flex 4.1 SDK, the labels don’t show:

Flex 4.1 - displayName doesn't show

I spent hours upon hours trying to see if something in my code was working differently, looking at the API documentation… maybe some small change was made and my code needs to work a bit differently?

In the shower this morning, an idea appeared, like a nagging little itch: what if the problem is a bug in the Flex SDK? So, I installed Flex 4.5.0.19786, re-compiled and – problem solved! Whew. I’m relieved. Not being able to show labels on the stacked columns would be a deal-killer and we’d have to move back to Flex 3.5.

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