Re: [flasher] RE: Interactive bus time-table

[Helen Triolo]

Hejsan!  The hard part is the logic behind the map, of course.  I was

thinking about how I would do your map as I ate breakfast (more

inspiring than reading about all the high tech layoffs in the area...)

and I think you would need these things:


  a database with a table of routes, and a table of stops for each route

(by grid coordinates possibly, or some other way that will indicate

stops on one route that overlap a stop on another)

  a vector (or bitmap) map, of course, for the background

  movieclips of each entire route line


When the user clicks the start, you look for the closest bus stop and

when they click the stop you do the same.  If both points are on the

same route, you display the corresponding bus route mc, masked with a

rectangle that goes from start-busstop x,y to stop-busstop x,y so only

the relevant part shows.  If they're on different routes, you have to

look for an intersecting point (that's where the backend logic gets

nasty, I think, especially if you have more than 2 routes) and then dump

the appropriate segments of mc's as above if found.  It does sound like

a complicated undertaking, but an interesting one.

 

Regards,

Helen 

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Thorvald Neumann wrote:

> 

> Hejsan!

> 

> I am looking for something were I can click on a starting and an end

> point and it shows me the route of the bus, eventually also telling me

> the arrival and departure times and possibly if I have to change to

> another bus line on my voyage. Sounds a bit more complicated, right?

>

> Friday, February 16, 2001, 10:30:55 AM, Jason Cartwright wrote:

> > Yes! A lot more complicated! I don't think I have seen anything like that

> > done in flash before... Good luck! Be sure to show us the completed site :)

> 

> Aha, this does make me somewhat nervous about this project... At the

> moment, I am trying to outline the functionality for the a simple

> prototype.

> 

> I know how it should look like and what the outcome is, but not how to

> achieve this. I guess I have do think very deeply on this...

> 

> Best wishes,

> 

>    Thorvald Neumann

>    Multimedia Developer