Clickable World Map

[Tony Heagren]

Hi all,

I asked a question recently but I did it badly and I think maybe people thought it was a more complex problem than it was..

So this time (with example) I'm trying again.

Scenario:

Map of the world.

Click a country.

A box zooms out (which I will populate with info).

basic online example:

www.heagren.com/map

Two highlighted countries (Nigeria and Indonesia).

Click each one (then use the X to close the info box).

The zoom clip in the example is just a very basic classic tween.

What I need is a zoom clip that will start on the country clicked and end in the same final position each time. Each country has an invisible button on it (nigeria_Btn, USA_Btn, Germany_Btn) etc and ideally I would use these as a target "start point" within the code rather than _x _y coordinates.

I hope this can be quite easily achieved with a scripted animation but the code is beyond me so I'm looking for ideas and inspiration !

(and help…)

All and any help much appreciated.

Best wishes

Tony

[moccamaximum]

ActionScript 3 (No use to restrict yourself to as1/2 with such simple requirements)

push all the countries you want clickable into an array

var country_arr:Array = [];

country_arr.push(nigeria_Btn);

country_arr.push(Germany_Btn);

//etc.

then create a loop

for (var i:int = 0;i<country_arr.length;i++){

country_arr.addEventlistener(MouseEvent.CLICK, zoomFromTo);

}

function zoomFromTo(e:MouseEvent):void{

  var startPoint:Point = new Point(e.stageX, e.stageY);

  var startScale:Number = 0.1;

  var endPoint:Point = new Poiint([ enter here the registration point of the infobox will be]);

var endScale:Number = 1;

//use all these data to program your tween

// you can learn to program tweens here: http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3tweenclass/

}