I may have over played this demo on the forums already, but I think you could still benefit from it... possibly. I'm not sure what kind of animation you're looking for on the polyline, but I would imagine something like look-up directions from here to there, then show the path drawn incrementally like Indiana Jones style. What I think you'd need to do to have that kind of control is have it calculate the directions then use the array of points along the directions to draw them one at a time with some sort of delay between the drawing of each segment. I did some line drawing a while back working on a project using google maps and posted some of the things I worked on here, a lot of the code posted there is from other posters but I tried to give credit where credit was due, anyhow in case I missed them Kevin Luck (for the clusterer) and Jonathan Wagner (for the idea and a lot of code on getting huge amounts of markers on the map without terrible drag) were the two people who's code and forum posts I got most of this from (outside of what I coded, ah and of course Pamela Fox and Thor and I'm sure a lot of other people I can't remember right now).
http://www.shaunhusain.com/GoogleMapManyMarker/ So if you check it out you're not gonna be too enthused as you won't see anything animating on that example, however using the ManyMarkerHolder.as or ManyLineHolder.as (right click the map and hit view source) as examples you can see how you can draw your own overlays using the fromLatLngToPaneCoords method to translate the points returned in the results from running a directions query to places on screen that you want to draw. Also I used some animated versions of the markers instead of bitmapData at some point, using the single overlay method still but using uicomponents so I could benefit from the built in flex lifecycle and it worked pretty well, was using an image with an animating mask moving around it and was still able to navigate around the map just fine with quite a few of em animating (think I was testing with about 20, was just curious if it would work at all). http://www.iam.sg/flash/docs/com/google/maps/interfaces/IPane.html http://www.iam.sg/flash/docs/ If you need more help or I'm going in the wrong direction with this let me know, I'd be interested in trying this out just to see it working anyhow. Good Luck, Shaun On Jun 22, 3:32 pm, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > I see a thread back in February (http://groups.google.com/group/google- > maps-api-for-flash/browse_thread/thread/5215e8b877a38d4c/ > ebd0787280e5ac35?lnk=gst&q=animation#ebd0787280e5ac35) asking about > animation and polylines. I didn't see any response to that so I > thought I'd raise it again. Anyone got a working demo of an animated > polyline? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en.
