Mar
5
2007
FlexMap: Yahoo! Maps for Flex 2.0!
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 3:27 PM
3 comments - Categories:
Flex
Last week, Tim Walling said he was planning to release an easy-to-use wrapper for the Yahoo! Maps Flex component. It's painful to use the Yahoo! version, because it's Flex 1.5 compatible and requires creation of a .SWF wrapper, hoop jumping, etc.
Thankfully, Tim's now done a good deal of that hoop jumping for us, and done it in an open-source way! Read more at the FlexMap project page.
Scott Morgan wrote on 03/05/07 10:30 PM
Tim did do a nice job, I am very impressed with his implementation. At the same time Yahoo! just released their Yahoo! Maps AS3 Communication Kit which does esentially the same as Tim's implementation, only glaring difference is the Yahoo! version uses externalInterface and is planning on putting out an update so LocalConnection can be used too, it will be the users choice. They both have their advantages. Another nice feature in the Yahoo! version is the ExternalInterfaceBuffer which esentially queue's calls between as2 and as3 so none are dropped. ExternalInterface and LocalConnection are both guilty of this. If there is too much traffic the flash player, or the browser in the case of ExternalInterface drops the call.Hopefully with all this presure Yahoo! will come through and release a real AS3 implementation of maps. Supply and demand my friends, keep demanding, and Yahoo! will provide.