This looks great. I think I might have a record for the shortest lived project ever with FlexMap.

Hey, nice work. Legible comments in your code, a first , must be the sunny weather.

Hi Scott,

Thank you for adding the setMapType function to the new update of the API .. The Yahoo AS3 API is awesome.

Thank you

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the comment. I have not tried the communication kit yet but will definitely let u know once i use it.

The quick question that comes to my mind is that are you planning to give all the methods in the communication kit in the future release. or we will get the fully functional apis from yahoo to use in flex 2.0?

We are planning an enterprise level application using flex 2.0 and yahoo maps.
So we need to make decision about which api version to use?
Can you provide some details on this matter?
Thanks and regards,
Anupam

I am trying the same thing as Anupam stated above. Any ideas on this will be greatly appreciated. thanks.

venkat

761 – Yahoo! Actionscript 3 API Library launched today.

That is great news Scott. You did a fantastic job with the maps communication kit. I will be checking back for the new maps with the events added. Cant wait to give it a try.

- venkat

Thanks you very much for the new library Scott. I will try it out soon.

Hi Scott,
I have checked the new AS3 communication toolkit and especially onPoiClick Event. But the method doesn’t give any information about the marker object that we get in Flash Api.
I have tried to extend the method and got success in doing so.
I am posting my code here so if there is something wrong plz provide your inputs.

function onPOIClicked(ev:Object) {
var rtnObj:Object = new Object();
var myMarker:Object = ev.marker;
for (var p in myMarker) {
rtnObj[p] = myMarker[p].toString();
}
for (var q in ev){
if (typeof(ev[q]) != ‘movieclip’) {
rtnObj[q] = ev[q];
}
}
EIBuffer.addCall({method:swfDomId + “.onPOIClicked” + id, data:rtnObj});
}

So i am getting all the fields of markers like “index”, “title” and “description”.

Please provide your inputs.
Thanks,
Anupam

Scott and Anupam,

I am trying to get the same information about the marker that you have implemented. But I am new to this flash and flex and don’t exactly know which class to extend to include the code snippet that you provided. Can you please give me some ideas on this? thanks a lot in advance. I tried to listen to the onPOIClicked eventbut the object returned does not contain a marker instance. Not sure how to proceed on this.

I am glad you are liking the library. Also, thank you for all the communication I am sure all the discussion will create great applications. I am not sure if you guys know about the Yahoo! Developer Network Flash discussion group. Lots of users are already subscribed to that group including a number of internal Yahoo! developers. Posting a question or comment there will ensure many people see it and will increase the probability that someone will respond quickly. You can sign up for the group here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-flash/

Once again, thanks for supporting our libraries and I look forward to seeing what you guys are creating!

Just FYI on a problem in the as2map.fla. I just downloaded it, and couldn’t figure out why the maps were loading so tiny in all the examples (a very tiny dot).

I opened up the FLA, resized the map inside the mapClip library clip to the full document dimensions (was 5×5, now 600×400), and the problem went away (maps aren’t tiny dots in Flex anymore).

Not sure if this is a resize function that isn’t working, or the map was sized wrong, buy at any rate this looks all good now.

Thanks for this, BTW…this will make my project a lot easier to build!

Hi Scott,
I am trying to place 2 map instance in the single applicaion file of the map.
I am getting one map and the other map is not displayed.
I have also tried with changing the id of the map i have set the unique id of the second map to 12345.
I am getting one map but second map is not displayed.
Do i need 2 swfs i.e as2map.swf or can i use the same swf in two places? Right now i am using the single swf but no sucess.
Can you provide some input on this?
Thanks,
Anupam

Hi Scott,

I am trying to capture an event from a marker click event with no success.

I have the following code:

private function onMapLoaded(ev:Object):void {
var myMarker:Object;
var panTools:PanTool = new PanTool(myAS2Map);
panTools.setPanTool(true);

var widgets:Widgets = new Widgets(myAS2Map);
mapController = new MapController(myAS2Map);
widgets.showNavigatorWidget();
widgets.showSatelliteControlWidget();
new Overlays(myAS2Map).showTrafficOverlay(true);

latLonController = new LatLonController(myAS2Map);
latLonController.setCenterByLatLonAndZoom(Number(56.58369172128337), Number(-5.1416015625),12,0);

myMarker = index:’*',title:’test’[0].name,markerColor:0xff0000};
latLonController.addMarkerByLatLon(‘CustomPOIMarker’,Number(56.58369172128337), Number((-5.1416015625), myMarker);
myMarker.addEventListener(onPOIClicked,test);
}

public function test(ev:Object):void {
Alert.show(“Hello”);
}

I am new to Flex and actionscript and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Cheers for your help in advance.

Did it again.

My marker line should be:

myMarker = {index:’*',title:’test’,markerColor:0xff0000};

Hi Scott,

Sorry for posting so many times but I am determined to get this working. I have managed to capture the onPOIClicked event with the following code:

mapEventDispatcher = new MapEventDispatcher(myAS2Map);
mapEventDispatcher.addEventListener(‘onPOIClicked’,poiClicked);

public function poiClicked(ev:Object):void {
Alert.show(ev.lastResult.title);
}

However ev.lastResult.title is just returning an empty string. How do I get at these properties of the clicked marker.

Cheers again for your help in advance.

Hi Anupam,

Me an another engineer (who wrote a good part of the original Maps AS code) spent yesterday afternoon looking into this. Unfortunatly we weren’t able to come up with anything. We confirmed it is not working as is with ExternalInterface, we wrote a LocalConnection version with the same result. Both map shells load, the widgets and panning instantiated on both maps, however only one map loads tiles, and there is a considerable delay before the one map loads the tiles. We used a few different http sniffer programs to see what was going on, and we noticed calls to the server were being dropped. What we are not sure of is if this is a security “thing” in the flash player, if the player is being overloaded with cross-avn activity, something in the as2 component is conflicting with avm2. We have confirmed that everything works “fine” if you load two maps into a regular flash 8 file. I put the word fine in quotes because there are a few issues, and a few dropped calls but avm1 seems to get around them. Unfortunatly we are stumped at this point, if anyone out there has any suggestions let use know. I know the other engineer was going to spend some more time with it last night, I will update you if he comes up with anything. I don’t know how much time we’ll be able to spend on this as you are the only one (as of now) running into this issue. Do you need two maps in one application, could you get around it by loading another instance of the application into an iframe? Is there going to be communication between the maps, you could always use LocalConnection if the other map is in an iframe. Let us know what your specific use case is and I will throw out any other suggestions I may have.

Thanks,
Scott

2007-03-21 00:00:00

Hi Scott,

The use case in which i want to use multiple instances of the map is like this

We are building an Enterprise level application using Flex 2.0.1
I have designed an mxml component for map and all the functionality is achived using this component.

I have created a view stack in an mxml application file and

i am using this component in different views.

In first view i am showing the information related to some service engineer and where they are located using markers.. and on the click of the marker i am handling certain events.
so the user can edit or add the information regarding that particular service engineer.

In the second view i am showing the information related to some service parts and where they are located.It is called sites in the application.
Here also on clicking on the marker some event is triggering and user will be able to do CRUD operations on the Equipments.

I have tried to achieve this functionality by putting component on two different views but one of them is not loading.

Can you suggest any other approach to achieve the same functionality?

Thanks,
Anupam

I had an issue with the local search and couldn’t retrieve more than 25 records. I wrote the following function to “fix” it…

for( var i:int = 1; i < 5; i++){
var begin:int = i * 25;
var end:int = (i * 25)- 25;
overlays.localSearchOverlay(“Thrivent”, undefined as Object , begin, end , 2000, undefined as String, undefined as String);
}
Alert.show(i.toString());

}

Hi Scott,

I’ve been using the Yahoo! Maps AS3 library for a while and found a tough nut. I’m trying to add an anchor tag in a CustomPOIMarker description. Instead of launching an URL, I want to call an actionscript.

Initially, I tried this:

“Click”

But, after reading the documentation I guess AS3 does not support “asfunction” anymore. Instead, it is now a TextEvent. So, I replaced the “asfunction” call with this:

“Click”

and then…

addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, handler);

This does not work either. If I try this with any UI component of Flex, it works. For ex., if I use a TextArea or a Button and set the “htmlText” property to what I did above, everything works fine. With CustomPOIMarker, this does not work.

I have two questions therefore:

1. Only the first click on the marker fires the click event (onPOIClicked). First click expands the marker. Further clicks do not fire any event. If they do, I guess the event is different. Is that right?

2. Is there a way in which I can use “addChild” on the marker object? This way, I can create any control in Flex that supports “htmlText” and then add it to the marker.

Will appreciate any help in this context.

Thanks,
Raghu

2007-03-28 00:00:00

First off, what is up with this line?

myMarker = index:’*',title:’test’[0].name,markerColor:0xff0000};

i am unable to trace the event onPOIClicked and the string of that POI

plz help me out from this situation

thanks

Scott-

Is onPOIClicked event available in the AS2 flash component? I am having difficultly finding it.

I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELKP AND THIS FORUM!!!!

Hi Scott,
I have exactly the same issue which Marc faced . My “onPOIClicked” returns me only this:
x: -122.39209
latlon: [object Object]
y: 47.635784
type: poiMarkerClicked

I am looking for the “title” and “description”. Please let me know how to go about this.

-vijay

2007-07-20 00:00:00

Scott,
I have spent considerable amount of time trying to get two instances of the map working. Did you ever come up with a solution?

Thanks,
Ryan

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