Good Morning,
I am cartographer/graphics specialist by trade but am working to apply these skills to flash. I’ve had great luck so far moving my projects out of Illy and making them interactive through AS3.
I am at the point where I’d like to incorporate tables of attribute data specific to my movie clips. For example, tables of demographic info specific to US counties. I’d like to make these data queriable by clicking on a specific county (mc). I’ve been reading some tutorials and it sounds like I should convert my data to xml (from a CSV or XLS) and then import the XML to my stage and start learning the ins/outs of calling on its values.
Am I starting down the right path? First off, I’ve not found a very straightforward way to get my data into XML. It originates in a DBF and i could easily convert it to tab-del text, csv or anything else. Any suggestions?
Also, should i rethink where I am starting with this and not use XML altogether, maybe using something else?
thanks in advance…
-josh
