You should be getting a security error on the GeoCode attempt. Google does not have a crossdomain.xml policy file that will allow you to use URL or HTTPService Geocode calls from within Flash Player. you should use the Geocode functions in the Flash/Flex API to do this. I tried to do this (use HTTPService) to get around a bug in the GeoCode calls when the swf was loaded from an https domain (now fixed in 1.9a - thanks!), but was unsuccessful due to the security restrictions.
Mark On May 5, 10:29 pm, buffalob <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a simple Google Maps application in Flash and ActionScript 3 > which does some simple mapping actions (marker and panning) and also > looks up a lat/lng using a URL load of the Google geocode API > (maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=) to get the marker location. > > It all works great in the Adobe Flash CS4 Pro development app on my > laptop. > > But when I put the published swf onto a web server and embed it in > HTML, it the geocode lookup grinds processing to a halt. If I comment > out the geocode call and hard-code a lat/lng value instead of the > event handler, then it runs fine in the browser (IE, Firefox 3.0.4, > and Chrome). I had set the publishing options to enable network > access, and that clearly works because the map is displayed, panned, > and marker set as commanded by my ActionScript code. > > When the geocode call is present in the swf, the status text displayed > at the bottom of Firefox is "Read map.google.com" when it freezes up. > The map stays displayed and can still be zoomed, dragged, etc. using > the mouse but the ActionScript obviously doesn't execute. > > The same ActionScript when run from the Adobe CS4 development program > has no problem calling the geocode API over and over, quickly. But > from a browser even trying to do it once stops the swf code execution > in its tracks. I also tried a different geocoding API (geonames.org) > and the exact same symptom happens - works fine from CS4, hangs in > browser, so it doesn't seem the Google API is at fault. > > Here's the part of the code that causes the problem. The HTML page > for embedding the swf is done as similar as possible to the HTML > example in the last page of the tutorial here, except I specify the > key in the AS3 code instead of in the html (same key for the map and > geocode):http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/tutorial-flash.html > > Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Basically my application > needs to look up some lat/lng points dymanically and mark them. > Hopefully that's something feasible in a client-side mashup. > > ... > var geoCodeURL = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q="; + > locStringWithPlusses + > "&output=csv" + "&key=" + googleKey; > > var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(geoCodeURL); > var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); > loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT; > loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleGeoCode); > loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, handleIOError); > loader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR , > handleSecurityError); > loader.load(request); > ... > > function handleGeoCode(evt:Event):void { > var response:String = evt.target.data as String; > trace(" data received from geo URL: " + response); > var results:Array = response.split(/,/); > var lat = results[2]; > var lng = results[3]; > var spot:LatLng = new LatLng(lat, lng); > var marker:Marker = new Marker(spot); > map.addOverlay(marker); > map.panTo(spot); > > } --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
