Google Earth API for Flex

2010-04-08 Thread paul.ng
Sorry to bring this subject up again. I have seen many posts already asking for this feature but the answers so far are problematic to us. We have a Flex client and have integrated the JS version of Earth API via ExternalInterface using the HTML DIV to display the Earth on top of the Flash window

Re: Google Earth API for Flex

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Wagner
Hey Paul, Creating a Google Earth API for flex/flash would have all kinds of hurdles. The biggest being is that flash doesn't have any kind of native support for 3D, so that means 3D terrain and or Globes will render incredibly slow. There are some 3D flash globes out there that you might be able

Re: Google Earth API for Flex

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Wagner
Meant to say without any kind of 3D terrain or spheres. Jonathan On Apr 8, 3:00 pm, Jonathan Wagner m...@jonathanwagner.ca wrote: Hey Paul, Creating a Google Earth API for flex/flash would have all kinds of hurdles. The biggest being is that flash doesn't have any kind of native support for

Re: Google Earth API for Flex

2010-04-08 Thread paul.ng
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the info. I kind of figured it must be difficult to write a Google Earth API in flex/flash. Otherwise, they would have done it already. I will check out the 3D flash globes out there. Your 3D terrain prototype looks cool. - Paul On Apr 8, 12:01 pm, Jonathan Wagner