Jaklyl
02-17-2004, 11:25 AM
Hi there,
in the past 2 month, we - RTI systems - where working for a local natural conservation park. We have to build a system where you - the user - can plan his sigtseeing tour through the park. There are several information about any sight you can visit, one of 'em is a dynamic generated map, where you can see the sight and the topografic, this map ist scroll and zoom-able.
Okay, we have to arange all that with 2 servers. One ist java based and his part is the map generation. The second one ist php/mysql based and his part is the providing of the other data, like news, event, information about sights and so on.
Comunication between server is like this:
Request:
Flash-Client ==XML==>PHP/MySQL===XML===>Agis(Mapgeneration)
Response:
Flash-Client <==XML==PHP/MySQL<===URLtoMAPjpg===Agis(Mapgeneration)
Okay, now we show up the data in Flash.
Sounds easy...? Let me give you some numbers:
all content must be dynamic, there's an authoringsystem where you can add and remove any content.
there are: 25.000 signs
6 cathegories
ca. 50 sub-cathegories
We did the job - I'll post the URL as son as it's online - but on my way to the end, I stumble on some limitation/bugs of Flash. Moste of them costed me time, money and nerves. I know 50% of the list, are my faults, but I don't know which ones are my faults and which are Flash limitations. I hope the List can help some one. Please feel free to add you limitations.
array's: in some cases an array starts with 0 and in some other it starts with 1. Don't know why.
array's: some Errors in sort function when the array ist very huge
level: you can have 5 named instance levels _root.mc_1.mc_2.mc_3.mc_4, but you should stop at mc_3, if you would like to have an deeper level you have to load the mc_3 as an extrenal .swf.
include: If you include an as thats lager than 1000 lines of code, flash will crash if you play the swf.
LoadMovie: If you load an external movie, in some cases, this movie can not interact with other movies in the main mc.
Depth: You can swap Depth but you can't set the Depth of a mc
function: If you call somewhere in a function(1), another function(2) with a "for" in it. Function1 will skip funktion2 with out any errors.
for(xyz=0;xyz<=3;xyz++){
trace(xyz);
}
output:
0
1
2
3
4
This happend just once. But was very hard to find.
Macromedia support. Don't call them it cost you more money and time then writing a workouround.
Hm, thats all. I hope you can understand my bad English.
And I hope it helps someone out there
Grez
Jak
in the past 2 month, we - RTI systems - where working for a local natural conservation park. We have to build a system where you - the user - can plan his sigtseeing tour through the park. There are several information about any sight you can visit, one of 'em is a dynamic generated map, where you can see the sight and the topografic, this map ist scroll and zoom-able.
Okay, we have to arange all that with 2 servers. One ist java based and his part is the map generation. The second one ist php/mysql based and his part is the providing of the other data, like news, event, information about sights and so on.
Comunication between server is like this:
Request:
Flash-Client ==XML==>PHP/MySQL===XML===>Agis(Mapgeneration)
Response:
Flash-Client <==XML==PHP/MySQL<===URLtoMAPjpg===Agis(Mapgeneration)
Okay, now we show up the data in Flash.
Sounds easy...? Let me give you some numbers:
all content must be dynamic, there's an authoringsystem where you can add and remove any content.
there are: 25.000 signs
6 cathegories
ca. 50 sub-cathegories
We did the job - I'll post the URL as son as it's online - but on my way to the end, I stumble on some limitation/bugs of Flash. Moste of them costed me time, money and nerves. I know 50% of the list, are my faults, but I don't know which ones are my faults and which are Flash limitations. I hope the List can help some one. Please feel free to add you limitations.
array's: in some cases an array starts with 0 and in some other it starts with 1. Don't know why.
array's: some Errors in sort function when the array ist very huge
level: you can have 5 named instance levels _root.mc_1.mc_2.mc_3.mc_4, but you should stop at mc_3, if you would like to have an deeper level you have to load the mc_3 as an extrenal .swf.
include: If you include an as thats lager than 1000 lines of code, flash will crash if you play the swf.
LoadMovie: If you load an external movie, in some cases, this movie can not interact with other movies in the main mc.
Depth: You can swap Depth but you can't set the Depth of a mc
function: If you call somewhere in a function(1), another function(2) with a "for" in it. Function1 will skip funktion2 with out any errors.
for(xyz=0;xyz<=3;xyz++){
trace(xyz);
}
output:
0
1
2
3
4
This happend just once. But was very hard to find.
Macromedia support. Don't call them it cost you more money and time then writing a workouround.
Hm, thats all. I hope you can understand my bad English.
And I hope it helps someone out there
Grez
Jak