Re: FLASH: Is this possible to do in flash?

[Helen Triolo]

Flash Casey wrote:

> 

> i have this web site that uses maps a lot.

> 

> I need the user to be able to select a country and

> then have that country's map come onto the screen.

> 

> Then the user can click on a state or province and the

> state or province map come up. From there the state

> regions and then city and then ...

> 

> My idea is to have a very large map of the country

> like 7000 pixels wide then when the page loads this

> map will come up at 10% so it looks a lot smaller.

> 

> there will be 6 buttons north, west, south, east ,

> zoom in, zoom out. When these are clicked the map

> either moves up or down, left or right or the scale

> changes from 10% to 20 or 30 or 100%.

> 

> Im not sure if this can be down with the set property

> but im not sure.

> 

Yes, it's all very doable.  I've been working on a similar map (not

online yet -- may never be, at the rate I'm going since I do it in my

"spare time" - hahaha).  Keep a variable on the main timeline that keeps

track of what scale level you're at (ie, add 1 when you scale up,

substract 1 when you scale down), and use that to adjust the amount you

bump the map each time NES or W is clicked (it will have to be adjusted

to keep the map from going offscreen when the user clicks all the way to

one edge).  It took me a day of pencil-and-paper drawings and

calculations, but it can definitely be done.


Helen

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