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Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Flex 3 project which uses Modest Maps.
I've made some changes to tom-tweenlite branch in order to use Flex objects (UIComponent) as markers :
1. com.modestmaps.Map.as extends UIComponent (instead of Sprite)
2. com.modestmaps.core.MarkerClip.as extends UIComponent (instead of Sprite)

I look for a better way to do that, without altering the library (maybe by composition or inheritance of Map/MarkerClip ?) .

Thanks,

Arnaud.

This is a public service announcement :)

If you've been using the as3 tom-tweenlite branch in subversion you should svn up and point your project at trunk/as3 instead – we merged the branch today and are in the process of final cleanups and documentation.

What's changed? A lot. Briefly then, the TileGrid has been fully rewritten to support tweening, zooming in and out around fixed points, better fading of tiles, etc. Use TweenMap instead of Map to get the benefit of this, which currently depends on the excellent TweenLite library. The io package has been dropped (it was originally to code around deficiencies in FlashLite) as has the Reactor (as3 is much faster, and mostly everything we want to do fits in one frame). Map providers have been simplified so they are no longer responsible for image loading and tile painting. In general, everything should be a lot more stable and reliable when animating the map, interactively or with code.

If you were happily using trunk and we just broke your code, you should change your projects to use the downloaded version, or the version in tags/pre-merge-tom-tweenlite

Pleases do let us know if we've broken something your code relies on. It should be possible to adapt old code to this release without too many changes.

i tried getting mapLocation points using locationPoint() but something more than -630 disappears out of the screen. i think the maps in AS3 has its registration point at the topLeft that means my points with y-coordinate less then zero should move out of the topmost screen but it moves out when my screen location y-coordinate is about -630. is any thing going wrong in my code ?

i want to move the map ie pan according to the latitude and aongitude as parameters . how can this be done

If you're using Modest Maps then we'd love to hear about it. Please provide a link and let us know about your project!

We'd also like to hear about how the library is working for you, or not. What was easy, what was hard, what limitations did you overcome. Was anything missing? Is there a short tutorial we (or you) could write that would help the next person?

We are interested in providing better examples in future releases. If you're willing to have your code included in the source repository (under a suitable license) for others to learn from, please let us know.

(If you have a specific bug report or feature request, please feel free start a new thread and keep this one for talking about projects.)