Re: FLASH: Interactive Map

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Jeremy,


What you want is in fact possible. To give you a direct example would

require some further idea about what you're trying to do, but the basic

idea would be something like this.

Have a script in your favourite scripting language access the database

and query it. The query should return pairs with location and status.

On the movie side have a series of mc's that reflect location status.

You could do something like a mc with 2 frames. Frame 1 is the ok state

and has a  green dot and frame 2 is the alert state and has a red dot.

Now place an instance of the above mc on each location and give it a

name according to it's location.

If the script returns a series of values like :

washington=red&new york=green&.... then you can use them as follows.

After receiving the data from the script You trigger a series of tell

targets that will update the status of each location like so:

--- Pseudo Code----

Tell target washington Go to Label :washington

Tell target new york Go to Label :new york

etc.



Nigel


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