[Mapserver-users] Flash Capabilities

Sun Jun 15 10:39:43 EDT 2003

OK, where are the keepers of the flash secrets? I did what seemed to 
be the obvious thing to do and get a swf file and load it, but I 
don't see a map. So I must be missing the secret hand-shake or 
something :) Here is the php script I created which seems to work 
just fine, except the map does not show in the browser:

<HTML>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC">
<CENTER>
<H1>PHP/MapScript module test</H1>

<?php
dl("php_mapscript.so");
$map = ms_newMapObj("demo.map");
$map->selectOutputFormat("SWF");
$img = $map->draw();
$url = $img->saveWebImage();

?>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swfl
ash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
  WIDTH="<?php echo $map->width; ?>" HEIGHT="<?php echo $map->height; 
?>" id="map" ALIGN="">
  <PARM NAME=movie VALUE="><?php echo $url; ?>">
  <PARM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
  <PARM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#CCCCCC>
  <EMBED src="<?php echo $url; ?>" quality=high bgcolor=#CCCCCC 
WIDTH="<?php echo $map->width; ?>" HEIGHT="<?php echo $map->height; 
?>" NAME="map" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The OUTPUTFORMAT block in the mapfile looks like:

OUTPUTFORMAT
  NAME swf
  DRIVER "SWF"
  MIMETYPE "application/x-shockwave-flash"
  EXTENSION "swf"
  IMAGEMODE PC256
  FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=SINGLE"
#  FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=MULTIPLE"
END

and doing the same thing with a PNG image works fine.

Any help here would be appreciated.
  -Steve W.

On 13 Jun 2003 at 12:40, woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:

> Hi Flashy People,
> 
> I read this over and plan to give it a try:
> http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/FlashMapserverUserDoc.html
> 
> Is this document current or has more been done on this? 
> Do you have a priority wishlist?
> Who is the principal developer on this?
> 
> I wanted to animate a route, like have each successive segment 
> highlight after a short delay and then repeat. Is this possible? How
> hard would it be to implement? I saw some comments in the doc above
> about highlighing, but it seemed to imply that this was not done yet.
> I would probably have the route in its own layer if that makes a
> difference.
> 
> I think some people have posted links to their apps, but if anyone can
> share what they have done, I would be willing to add it to the Wiki
> page and add my experiences to it.
> 
> Thanks,
>   -Steve W.
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