Made progress but have a new set if questions:
1. Within a sprite, is the best way to have part of the sprite drawing
as text to have an internal label or text field object inside of the
sprite class? Is there a way to do a graphics.Drawtext or TextOut?
2. Same for an image, if I have a sprite that has 2-4 different
objects, shapes as part of it and one is an image, what is the best
way to load that? Just an image control?
3. In a sprite, I seem to always have a square graphic (makes sense)
but if I pass the graphic to DrawDropShadow, it works fine except it
draws a square drop shadow. Let's say I have a circle and want a
circle drop shadow, how can that be done?
4. Why no tooltips for sprites? Why no HTML tool tips? Both can be
created I guess but they would seem to make sense.
5. General mem management question if I have a function that does :
{
var array1:Array = new Array [1,2,3]
// do stuff
}
Does the array just dissappear with garbage collection in this
instance? Do i need to set it to null?
6. when I add a label to my sprite, I have trouble setting the font
and font size. I am use to something like label1.font.size or
label1.fontsize. I try to access this and it does not work properly.
7. Back to my panning example. I have a image (lets say 2000x2000) and
a view port that is 400x400 making part of the map visible. I want the
map to slide in the background to another point. Is there an easy way
to do this?
8. Simple flash stuff. How do I access variables passed in to control
from HTML?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "richmcgillicuddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I am new to the group and to Flex/Flash. We have a mapping tool that
> we had created about a year back that uses flash 8. We want to move up
> to Flex 2 for a number of reasons. I am trying to create the mapping
> hello world application. We use a standard png image as the background
> for the map. I am trying to create a simple image in a panel that has
> a series of buttons to the left where I can zoom in/out and pan in all
> directions. The zoom in/out is working fine (although I have questions
> regarding that) but the pan is not working. My code is attached to the
> bottom of this email message. Logically the steps I need to go through
> to get this to work are:
>
> 1. Simple map - Image management Pan Zoom.... Possibly overview window
> similar to Google or Yahoo.
> 2. Create an object that is a member of that map. This object needs to
> be able to display itself as a number of different types (Images,
> dots, characters). After reading through tutorials, I can create my
> own object that descends from a sprite. My questions here are will the
> dot zoom and coordinate based on the zoom, pan of the background map?
> How can I make that happen?
> 3. More complex tooltips than the standard tooltips. I want a tooltip
> that displays about 5-10 lines of information and possibly links to
> other areas of the web site. Would you just create a separate window
> to act as a tooltip window and place whatever information in the
> window you need?
> 4. Incorporating effects to the movements of these objects. I've seen
> the component explorer, I want the movement of these items on the map
> to slide from one spot to the other. The demo app in the explorer
> works well. How would you combine multiple effects to happen at the
> same time?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Step 1 Source Code
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> layout="horizontal">
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
>
> private function panUp():void {
> myMap.scrollRect.top -= 10;
> trace(myMap.scrollRect);
> if (myMap.scrollRect.top < 0) {
> myMap.scrollRect.top = 0;
> }
> }
>
> private function panDown():void {
> myMap.scrollRect.top += 10;
> trace(myMap.scrollRect);
> if (myMap.scrollRect.top < 0) {
> myMap.scrollRect.top = 0;
> }
> }
>
> private function panRight():void {
> myMap.scrollRect.left += 10;
> trace(myMap.scrollRect);
> if (myMap.scrollRect.left < 0) {
> myMap.scrollRect.left = 0;
> }
> }
>
> private function panLeft():void {
> myMap.scrollRect.left -= 10;
> trace(myMap.scrollRect);
> if (myMap.scrollRect.left < 0) {
> myMap.scrollRect.left = 0;
> }
> }
>
> private function zoomIn():void {
> myMap.scaleX += 0.1;
> myMap.scaleY += 0.1;
> }
>
> private function zoomOut():void {
> myMap.scaleX -= 0.1;
> myMap.scaleY -= 0.1;
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
> <mx:VBox height="100%">
> <mx:Button label="Left" id="btnLeft" click="panLeft()"/>
> <mx:Button label="Right" id="btnRight" click="panRight()"/>
> <mx:Button label="Up" id="btnUp" click="panUp()"/>
> <mx:Button label="Down" id="btnDown" click="panDown()"/>
> <mx:Spacer/>
> <mx:Button label="Zoom In" id="btnZoomIn" click="zoomIn()"/>
> <mx:Button label="Zoom Out" id="btnZoomOut" click="zoomOut()"/>
> </mx:VBox>
> <mx:Panel width="100%" height="100%" layout="absolute"
> cornerRadius="33" backgroundColor="#c0c0c0" id="myPanel" title="Map
> Basics 101" fontFamily="Georgia" fontSize="16">
> <mx:Image horizontalCenter="20" verticalCenter="20" width="504"
> height="601" source="SB memorial map.png" scaleContent="false"
> id="myMap"/>
> </mx:Panel>
>
> </mx:Application>
>
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