[Mapserver-users] what to do w/ ming swf's?

[Charlton Purvis]

Hi, folks:

I'm moving into new territory (for me) w/ animation, and I can't wrap my
hands around exactly what the resulting .swf's are.

I have two layers in my .map file:  one is a raster of elevations, and
the other is are bathymetry lines (LINE).  When I plug in the following
to my .map file:

IMAGETYPE swf

OUTPUTFORMAT
  NAME swf
  DRIVER "SWF"
  MIMETYPE "application/x-shockwave-flash"
  EXTENSION "swf"
  FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=MULTIPLE"
END

I end up w/ three .swf's in my tmp directory.

1051023629262321.swf         22-Apr-2003 11:11     1k  
1051023629262321_layer_0.swf 22-Apr-2003 11:11    78k  
1051023629262321_layer_1.swf 22-Apr-2003 11:11    96k  

The *_layer_*.swf's are what I would expect, but I thought that the
####.swf would be something like a control file:  click on that, and
away the animation would go (from layer_0 to layer_1).  Yes, this is a
bad example, but it seemed simple, in theory.  But if I click on it, it
produces a blank screen (no errors -- just a blank screen that opens in
a flash player).

Along those same lines, since I want to end up w/ an animation (layer_0,
pause, layer_1, repeat), am I going about it correctly?  Am I
misunderstanding what the ####.swf does and/or can I peek at the
####.swf's contents somehow?

I've used
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/FlashMapserverUserDoc.html as a
guide.  Everything works -- I just want to understand what I've got!

Thanks.
 
 
 
Charlton Purvis
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