[Mapserver-users] Flash Capabilities

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi There,
 Sorry for the late answer. I was out of the office since Friday.

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
>  
>
  Most of the information is uptodate. Parts that needed updating :
   - Events and Highlights : the document described the initial 
proposition. It did not describe how It was currently implemented.  I 
have updated that part of the document to describe what currently exists.
 

>Is this document current or has more been done on this? 
>Do you have a priority wishlist?
>Who is the principal developer on this?
>  
>
 There is no real priority list right now. I guess It will depend on how 
things go when people use theis output more frequently.

 I would be the main developper of this although I have had contribution 
and suggestion from other developpers like Jan Hartmann.

>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.
>  
>
  Hightlighting is implemented as noted above. Right now a second shape 
with the highlight color is drawn on top of the original shape when a 
mouse over happens on the shape.
  I am not sure how your case would be solved though. One possiblity 
would be to export for each element, it x,y coordinates (same way as the 
attributes are exported), and these coordinates would be accessible 
through Action Script. This idea was intially proposed for symbol layers 
to export the posisition of the symbols(x,y) and at the application  
level,  position flash symbols at these specific positions.  If there 
are other ideas, I would like to hear them.

>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.
>
>  
>
Later,

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