I thought there were some third-party map components out there. But in general, if you have a large bitmap you place a scrollRect on it and you should be halfway there.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of flexaustin Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: scrollRect ??? I would setting for Google or Yahoo version, but eventually I would like to be able to scale the floating box (blue box that shows scrollRect of the map) in the pan/zoom control and have it change the maps scale factor. J --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > I don't know of any example code. Are you trying to do anything different > from the other map applications out there? > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of flexaustin > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:01 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: scrollRect ??? > > > > Alex, thanks. Do you happen to know of any articles or examples on creating a > satellite view pan/zoom control? > > Jason > > --- In > [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > Alex Harui <aharui@> wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure scrollrects are always positioned at 0,0. It essentially > > creates a mask of a certain size, positions it at 0,0, then only shows the > > pixels that would otherwise be displayed at x,y at 0,0 > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > From: > > [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] > > On Behalf Of flexaustin > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:35 PM > > To: > > [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [flexcoders] scrollRect ??? > > > > > > > > Wondering if anyone knows how to get the difference between the scrollRect > > x position relative to the components edges? > > > > I am building a pancontrol, similar to the ones found Google Maps or Yahoo > > Maps, for quick navigation. > > > > In order to setup my pancontrol I need to find out the following given this > > code: > > > > <Application... > > ...... > > > > <mx:Canvas id="compHolder" width="100%" height="100%" > > horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" > > > <components:myComp id="vis" > > width="100%" height="100%" > > horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" > > backgroundAlpha="0" > > scrollRect="{rec}" > > cacheAsBitmap="true" > > mouseUp="handleVisMouseUp()" > > /> > > </mx:Canvas> > > > > I need to find the distance or gap between the vis.scrollRect x&y position > > relative to the vis x&y position. My application width & height are 600 x > > 600. Vis width and height are 3000 x 900 so they extend off screen. I am > > using the scrollRect to limit what is viewable. But in order build my > > pancontrol I need to find the diff between the X & Y of the scrollRect in > > relation to the X&Y of the Vis. So how far off left, right, bottom, and top > > of the visible area does Vis extend. I need those numbers in pixels. > > > > TIA, J > > >
