Some flash coding questions
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:12 am
Hi Thomas,
first of all I want to send you my deep respect for your great product, especially the flash-pack "extension".
As far as I see there is no other "working" spherical panorama solution for flash on the market yet. All other "attempts" are tries but no products (excluding flashvr, but this is not spherical and the used slices-technic offers poor quality only).
Congratulations !!
I'm testing to integrate the latest full version (1.6) and I'm trying to integrate the panos into an self made vt-tour flash-frontend, which is based on several other MCs (map, controlers, poi-data). Most of the stuff works perfectly, but I found some pitfalls concerning flash code integration and hope you can help me out:
p1) It seams to be impossible to mask the loaded swf pano. I tried several ways (dynamic with setMask(), static with mcs including mask layers) but the all failed whereas they work for e.g. jpgs. Do you have any idea whats behind that? I guess you use an displacementMapFilter for the distortion. Can this be the reason? BTW the approach to lay something over the edges on a hight displaylevel does not work for me, as this area needs to be displayed transparent in the browser.
p2) There is another strange thing about the display of a loaded pano.swf. I can not hide it by using <mc>._visible = false or <mc>._alpha = 0. Is this related to the p1 issue?
p3) The <mc>.pano.autorotate and <mc>.pano.autorotate_delay seams to be "static" and do not work outside a listenerObject onLoadStart-Eventmethod. Is this right or do I miss something? A setAutorotate() Methode would be great !
p4) Autorotate seams to work only if the mouse is over the pano. Can this be changed, so the rotation also works if the mouse is outside the pano area?
I also have some minor requests:
r1) Could you please public a complete API manual. I know about the "API sticker" but it is incomplete as I found several other API calls in the forum you posted by time. I know by myself how boring it is to keep dev-manuals up to date, but its the only interface to the outside and therefor it is extremely important for developers which intend to use your product.
r2) An simultaneous flash AND qt export would be great.
All in all it's a pleasure to work with your stuff. Extremely well done!
For me this thing has the potential to change the whole panorama-display-over-the-internet scene, at least the low- and mid-quality sector. For high-quality QT might be still the first choice.
Greetings to Vienna!
Benny
P.S. Sorry fo the long post
first of all I want to send you my deep respect for your great product, especially the flash-pack "extension".
As far as I see there is no other "working" spherical panorama solution for flash on the market yet. All other "attempts" are tries but no products (excluding flashvr, but this is not spherical and the used slices-technic offers poor quality only).
Congratulations !!
I'm testing to integrate the latest full version (1.6) and I'm trying to integrate the panos into an self made vt-tour flash-frontend, which is based on several other MCs (map, controlers, poi-data). Most of the stuff works perfectly, but I found some pitfalls concerning flash code integration and hope you can help me out:
p1) It seams to be impossible to mask the loaded swf pano. I tried several ways (dynamic with setMask(), static with mcs including mask layers) but the all failed whereas they work for e.g. jpgs. Do you have any idea whats behind that? I guess you use an displacementMapFilter for the distortion. Can this be the reason? BTW the approach to lay something over the edges on a hight displaylevel does not work for me, as this area needs to be displayed transparent in the browser.
p2) There is another strange thing about the display of a loaded pano.swf. I can not hide it by using <mc>._visible = false or <mc>._alpha = 0. Is this related to the p1 issue?
p3) The <mc>.pano.autorotate and <mc>.pano.autorotate_delay seams to be "static" and do not work outside a listenerObject onLoadStart-Eventmethod. Is this right or do I miss something? A setAutorotate() Methode would be great !
p4) Autorotate seams to work only if the mouse is over the pano. Can this be changed, so the rotation also works if the mouse is outside the pano area?
I also have some minor requests:
r1) Could you please public a complete API manual. I know about the "API sticker" but it is incomplete as I found several other API calls in the forum you posted by time. I know by myself how boring it is to keep dev-manuals up to date, but its the only interface to the outside and therefor it is extremely important for developers which intend to use your product.
r2) An simultaneous flash AND qt export would be great.
All in all it's a pleasure to work with your stuff. Extremely well done!
For me this thing has the potential to change the whole panorama-display-over-the-internet scene, at least the low- and mid-quality sector. For high-quality QT might be still the first choice.
Greetings to Vienna!
Benny
P.S. Sorry fo the long post