Recently i updated the mapTech demo to show 3 layers at once. Please be sure to adjust the 3 sliders at the bottom to set the upper 2 layers alpha value. Next step will be a drag & drop enabled kit to build customized layer sets of both static image/map and dynamic symbolic/charting data.
As you might have seen in the demo, i want to display 100+ charts on a map. Until today, i created a chart-object (along with dataProvider, Series, and stuff) for every view to be displayed. This rendered the application unresponsive for some seconds, showed no progress and consumed lots of memory. While reworking my display [...]
I want to add 1000+ child elements to a flex container that can be moved around with the mouse ( using startDrag / MouseEvent.MOVE). On a first try, i used a Canvas to hold the elements and a class derived from UIComponent as element. Adding 1K of children rendered the application almost completely unresponsive. I [...]
Update: See the FlexMap demo. Combine all possible map sources. Update: Recently the performance with multiple layers was dramatically improved. Please see the multi-layer demo. For years we’ve been using a heavily modified Zoomify image component for our mapping products. We started off at flash6 with an as1-component, incrementally modified it to understand coordinates, added [...]
UPDATE: In Flex beta3 mouseTraget is set for a MENU_SELECT-event, but not for a MENU_ITEM_SELECT. Workaround: Save the mouseTarget in MENU_SELECT and reuse it in its consecutive MENU_ITEM_SELECT event. UPDATE: this will not work with AIR beta2: mouseTarget is null for MENU_SELECT_ITEM and MENU_SELECT in AIR BETA2. I’ve filed a bug at Adobe. If you [...]
