[worldKit-dev] geowiki mod

[Mikel Maron]

> > There is a light at the end of this tunnel .. http://osflash.org. 
>
> Thanks, I had a look at it, but as far as I understood, osflash is not
> intended as a replacement for Flash development tools, just a collection of
> free flash apps.

Interesting that it's being portrayed in that way. I guess the intention is not to replace the complete Flash IDE, with all the animation tools, etc. BUT it is definitely building tools to compile pure actionscript applications (like worldKit) with all open source tools.

Here's a decent article and link to the tutorials..

http://www.actionscript.com/Article/tabid/54/ArticleID/towards-open-source-flash-development/Default.aspx
http://osflash.org/tutorials


> However, I coded "dry", so Mikel (or someone else with the right app), if
> you could include the following code into worldkitInteraction.as, see if it
> works, and send me the resulting swf, you'd make me really happy! :)

I don't have the chance to test this out right now, but from visual inspection it looks good.
I'd probably move the bulk of onJGetItemComm into a worldkitAnnotation method, to keep things encapsulated.
Otherwise this looks great, thanks!

> data of the respective item. The data transfer is done by calling
> javascript:gotItem (what happens if that doesn't exist?) which receives a

It generates a Javascript error in the browser .. so basically nothing.

Cheers,
Mikel