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Interactive and updatable map
Absolute Flash novice here. I've been assigned to make an interactive lot map for a subdivision using Flash, Coldfusion, MySQL. I'm hoping someone can break this down into bite sized pieces so I know where to get started.
Visitor appearance: One of the common overhead-view lot maps. Each lot can be moused over to show it's size and perhaps price in a info box. Each lot can appear as three colors depending on whether it's sold, reserved, or available.
Admin: A form where the lot number, status, size, and price can be entered.
I'm guessing that Flash will receive the data as XML. There could be up to 200 lots so I'm concerned about rendering speed. The lot number and lot size won't be changing so I wonder if they need to be in the actionscript or in a flat file.
Could someone give me a roadmap as to the best way to make this work and also a recommendation for a good book that would help me?
Visitor appearance: One of the common overhead-view lot maps. Each lot can be moused over to show it's size and perhaps price in a info box. Each lot can appear as three colors depending on whether it's sold, reserved, or available.
Admin: A form where the lot number, status, size, and price can be entered.
I'm guessing that Flash will receive the data as XML. There could be up to 200 lots so I'm concerned about rendering speed. The lot number and lot size won't be changing so I wonder if they need to be in the actionscript or in a flat file.
Could someone give me a roadmap as to the best way to make this work and also a recommendation for a good book that would help me?
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I have not done that site... I just remembered seeing that site some time ago, so I was just showing it as an example...
I cannot give you the code snippet because it will differ depending on how you structure your movieClip et all...
See if you can do this...
Create a new FLA file...
Create a movieClip in that file and give it an instance name...
Create a textField that will show information when the lot is rolledOver...
Do the LoadVars to load the data from the flat text file that tells the attribute of that one lot...
Apply that attribute to the movieClip by using the setRGB() / movieClip.onRollOver to display the information...
If you can take care of that, you probably will be able to take care of the rest...
CyanBlue
I cannot give you the code snippet because it will differ depending on how you structure your movieClip et all...
See if you can do this...
Create a new FLA file...
Create a movieClip in that file and give it an instance name...
Create a textField that will show information when the lot is rolledOver...
Do the LoadVars to load the data from the flat text file that tells the attribute of that one lot...
Apply that attribute to the movieClip by using the setRGB() / movieClip.onRollOver to display the information...
If you can take care of that, you probably will be able to take care of the rest...
CyanBlue
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Thanks. I looked at your example site - very nice!
Could you give me a code snippet of how one movieClip would be updated directly from CF? I like the idea of avoiding XML since I don't necessarily have to have it.