Hi all,
History: I am reviving a project started long ago that got put aside due to unresolved problems (why I’m here) and the lack of a need for it. Now my boss thinks it would be great to show this off to another department to try and get some funding for my job next year. Yep, I’m a contractor and live year to year so getting this to work is going to be crucial!
Right now I just need to revive it enough to show at a meeting coming up shortly (a couple of weeks). So it needs to be functional with little content - the main content can come later. Unfortunately, the hard part is the functionality!
Background: what I have is a map interface that uses Senocular’s brilliant mapping functionality ala this style for zooming and panning:
http://senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.76
I have dots all over my map, each one is loaded via an xml file. Each dot will also have an xml menu associated with it ala this piece of Senocular’s brain:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml_dropdown_menu.htm
Okay now if that wasn’t complicated enough I am also trying to incorporate a resizing dynamic caption code that I created (an adaption of the hover caption tutorial on kirupa) that can be found in this thread:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55969&highlight=caption
Problem: There are roughly 120 dots on my map. I need each one to have a hover caption on rollover. Everything seems to work great EXCEPT you can’t see the text. The caption seems to resize correctly and a trace outputs the correct text for the button rolledover but no text is appearing. I could seek help solving this problem but then I’d have to have 120 lines of code assigning the text to each button.
Senocular has tried to help me incorporate this into my xml menu, but we couldn’t get it to fly. It’s all set up correctly - it just won’t function!
So what I really need is an xml guru to look through my code and my xml file and help me figure this out! How do I get the code in flash to take in the variable (text) set in the xml and output it to the prototype function?
If anyone is up to the challenge I would be happy to send my files. Please help! insert begging smiley
