Thank you Pamela, It is good to see support for Flash CS3 since it is not much of a leap from Flex. For the sake of anyone else reading this posting thread, I should say that the problem I discovered appears to be specifically a Flash issue. Whenever a masked item is inside of a container, the parent's size is affected by both visible and hidden content.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that among other things, "map.setSize" sets the size of the map's masked area. When you zoom in on the map, there is a greater and greater amount of content hidden by the masked area. Therefore, even if you set your map size to 400x300, the hidden map content will balloon the parent container's reported size to well over 8000x8000. Unfortunately, even though Google Maps works great in Flash, if it is inside a container, you can forget about getting an accurate container size unless the map is zoomed all of the way out. The only solution I've seen is to get the size of all the container's visible children and add them up. I would love to hear a better solution, but for now, I don't know that there is one. ~ Tristan On Oct 4, 11:34 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Tristan- > > Actually, as of the most recent release, we do officially support CS3. > Check out the documentation's new tutorial on getting started in CS3, > and let us know if you're still having issues. > > - pamela > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Tristan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fair enough Pamela, > > However if that is the case, I think it is very misleading to call > > this "Google Maps API for Flash." A more apt description would be > > "Google Maps API for Flex" or "Google Maps API for Actionscript 3." > > Am I missing something? I hope you do officially support Flash CS3 or > > Flash CS4 soon; this API is totally usable even now in the Flash IDE - > > a lot of developers can truly appreciate and use the tools that this > > API offers. > > > ~ Tristan > > > On Sep 30, 1:21 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> HiTristan- > > >> FYI, we don't officially support use of the Maps API in Flash CS3. If > >> at some point we do officially support it, please post again and > >> provide a sample FLA file to demonstrate the issue. You may want to > >> star this > >> issue:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=329 > > >> - pamela > > >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:17 PM,Tristan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I created a dynamic Flash layout that moves and adds scrollbars > >> > according to its content size, but I discovered that an embedded > >> > Google map adversely affects the accurate reading of its parent clip's > >> > size. > > >> > I set the Google map size to approx. 600px wide by 300px tall and > >> > added it to a MovieClip 'mapContainer'. This clip is in another > >> > MovieClip 'content'. When the map is zoomed all of the way out, the > >> > width & height of 'mapContainer' & 'content' are the same as the > >> > Google map, ie(600 x 300). When I zoom in on the map, the parent > >> > MovieClips report their sizes as larger and larger to over 8000px! > > >> > Obviously the entire map size is reported by the parent clips whether > >> > it is visible or not. I've tried masking the clip containing the > >> > Google map, but that has no effect. Does anyone know how to keep the > >> > embedded map's zoom from affecting the size of its parent clips?? I > >> > haven't been able to find any information on this... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
