Hi Michael, My guess is this is the best you'll find, the poster explains it as well as I could (link below the rambling), to be clear Java is not javascript and the Google maps API is written to support javascript or AS3 which is the main language for writing Flash or Flex applications. Flex is built on top of Eclipse which is a common open IDE that can be used with plugins for coding/compiling all sorts of languages (Java, C++, C, PHP, etc.), and in Flex you can write markup much like HTML but the files are called mxml, the mxml files ultimately are just short hand for AS3, you could in fact write it all in AS3, same thing when you're using the "design view" or the Flash "stage" and "timeline" ultimately you're generating AS3 code which in turn is compiled down to AS3 bytecode which is in turn interpreted by an ActionScript Virtual Machine that is essentially what Flash Player plugin is, this last step takes it from a common bytecode sent to all browsers down to a machine code that can execute operations on the processor of a particular machine (the magic of write/compile once run anywhere... really the magic is I need time to interpret this, but it works out great from a programmers perspective). Also to note AS3 shares a lot of language features and the syntax is quite similar to Java so being confused on this isn't some major faux pas (also both run on a VM, major difference IMHO is that mxml is appealing to those who know HTML and feels similar, and AS3 is like Java but with more direction in terms of the classes provided to fulfill the one purpose of "web application development" as opposed to Java which is more of a jack of all trades).
Decided to give the breakdown above because you will need to understand how these things work together in order to pull this off, essentially this solution uses a combination of Flash or Flex as the main application, and a modification of the template HTML file included in the Flash/Flex project to include the appropriate Javascript and then you'll be having the Flash/Flex application (which is running in a plugin within the browsers DOM) communicate with the javascript to get it to draw the information into a HTML thing in the Flex/Flash app.... that confused me to some degree, so yah take your time with it and be patient this probably won't be without speed bumps. http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/2009/12/street-view-within-flex-api-for-ags.html Good luck, Shaun -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-api-for-flash/-/c09NbHRTUjdkS2dK. 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.
