Comments on: Using Yahoo ASTRA Map API with Flex 2

By: Haz

Haz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:09:20 +0000

Can you give full source code? still green in Flex

By: Prash

Prash — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:26:13 +0000

Hey thanks for Astra,it was really helpful for . iCould get the map into my flex page. But
mapController.goToAddressAndZoom(“London“, 6);

This doesnt seem to work
.Any pointers on how to have user search for a particular loacation.
Is there any other function that can be used to acheive this.
Thanks

By: dietlev

dietlev — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:14:52 +0000

Harry, change your code to :

var panTool:PanTool = new PanTool(yahooMapID);
var widgets:Widgets = new Widgets(yahooMapID);

Hope that helps.
Thx for the tutorial !

By: harry

harry — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:08:22 +0000

Hi,

I’ve had a read through the astra library docs and am having difficulty adding the two extra options which you have example code for (pan and widget). The error i’m getting is

“1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type MapExample to an unrelated type com.yahoo.webapis.maps:YahooMapService”

Its odd because when I use the code hint thing I can see the widgets and the pan class.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:11:07 +0000

Thank you so much, if its any use because of the support I get from people like you I now do it when I can on my blog and i’m glad to say I have helped at least one guy out.

Adam

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:07:51 +0000

Hi Adam,

Make sure the swfDomId=“{SWFDOMID}“ in your yahooYahooMapService tag matches the name of the embed tag in the generated html, by default it is set to the project name.

Regards

Jon

By: adam

adam — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:19:26 +0000

Hi,

I have followed your instructions and when I run the example (your first two code blocks) I am being shown the default flex background with a small 5*5 grey image. When I run the as2map.swf it is also very small. I think it is nearly working but i’m having some difficulty working out what the problem is

Thank youfor your time,

Adam

The code is as folows:

By: Kaushal Shah

Kaushal Shah — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:07:10 +0000

Thanks for quick response.
And you r correct that its not going ahead from Draw() method of YahooMapService.as. This method uses ExternalInterface.addCallback to know us when the map is loaded or if there was an error loading it.

Now from where I can get some solution?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:41:23 +0000

Hi, This could be due to Javascript settings, I believe that the AS3 ASTRA framework uses the ExternalInterface API to communicate with the AS2 a2map.swf via Javascript calls. Don’t quote me on that as I am not on the Yahoo development team and have not gobe through thier code in great detail.

By: Kaushal Shah

Kaushal Shah — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:27:16 +0000

HI, ASTRA works really good. I have easily attached this tool in my site, but i found one problem, in some IE6 this doesn’t work even not giving onMapErro(), while in other IE6 its work perfactly. What to do in this case?