On Dec 25, 12:16 pm, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can any one explain me the following points > > 1.In google maps which part is flash and which part is flex? Both... flex is built on top of Flash, without Flash there is no Flex, without Flex you just don't have nice layout containers and controls (like data grid's or fancy customizable buttons, not just UI these are just examples but Flex is all AS3 code, AS3 get's compiled into actionscript bytecode which in turn is interpreted by a Flash plugin, regardless of what development environment/build tools your using in the end if you have a swf file (could have been from mxml or as files) you have AS bytecode. When the flex compiler is running it compiles the mxml into AS3 as an intermediate then compiles the AS3 down to AS3 bytecode.
> > 2.Life cycle of its execution? I don't work for google so I don't have a direct answer for the full life cycle, google flex life cycle and you can get good info on the life cycle methods in flex UI components, on top of these the maps have pre-initialize which occurs before map read (I would guess there's more but this is all I've ever needed). > > 3.what all the things the browser will download when it is executed? This one is speculation but from using Charles web debugging proxy you can see all the traffic for yourself (wireshark or other "hard wire" monitors would reveal anything not captured by Charles, although I've not had to get back into wireshark for a while now)... I believe a SWF is pulled down containing the compiled UIComponent I don't think they actually include all the code in the swc just the interface (could be wrong here), then it also needs to request the tile images as you pan/ zoom around, there's a "pyramid" of tiles that's stored on the server depending on zoom/position/screen size certain tiles will be fetched to show on screen, storing all tiles locally isn't allowed since they pay other companies that gather this imagery, I believe you can buy a google map server but definitely a corporate priced endeavor. > > 4. Why is that everytime its downloading when executing in the browser > is it because the maps are always updating? is there a way to work > with google maps without internet connection for development reasons/ > slow internet connection? if so can anyone post me a sample? > See above, slow internet connections should be banned :), sorry to hear that if it's really the case where you're developing, I don't believe there's any way around this. > My requirment is 20% with maps and the other 80% deals with the > markers > > 5.I work google maps in flash builder i.e executing the mxml file > using flash builder and rendering it into the browser but i'm finding > some examples of google maps given in html file but no mxml file i > need to re-organize this given html example back into mxml is there a > way? > You could decompile the swf using trillix or some other decompiler though this could be breaking the law, best to find helpful people on the net rather than reverse engineering some code, the HTML file is generated as part of the flash builder/flex builder process it uses a index.template.html file and some variables it obtains when your setting up the project to create an HTML wrapper to serve the SWF file, it also checks for the right flash player version but doesn't really have a whole lot of consequences otherwise. > Thanks Shaun -- 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.
