Get your map on! - First release of FlexMap

March 5th, 2007

I packaged up the first release of FlexMap over the weekend. The source code is being hosted by Google Code but I’ll maintain a page for the project here as well. As soon as Yahoo! releases an updated maps API, this will obviously become defunct, but I wanted to follow through with it anyway. It was an interesting challenge to create a Flex 2 component which exposed much of the same API as the Flex 1.5 version, while doing all of the communication via LocalConnection to a Flash 8 SWF.

I plan on adding some more features so I’ve dubbed this the 0.4 release (I’m guessing I’m about 40% done). Hopefully this is useful for anyone looking to quickly get started with the maps API in Flex 2.

Project home and documentation:
http://www.timwalling.com/flexmap/

Source code:
http://code.google.com/p/flexmap/

My sample application has been updated and the source code is available along with the component source. Some more things might need to be documented, especially my MapEvent addition but hopefully it’s apparent in the sample app.

FlexMap Example

Posted by Tim
Filed in Actionscript, Flex

2 Responses to “Get your map on! - First release of FlexMap”

  1. Hepp Maccoy Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    Hey Tim this looks really nice, thanks for your interest in empowering Flex Developers to use the current Y! Maps API.

    Scott Morgan has just started posted a similar project on Yahoo Dev Center

    Have you seen it?
    http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/howto-maps-as3.html

  2. Steve Moore Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    Tim,
    Great stuff! I’m working on a project that I want to include this in. Any chance of making your sample app at http://timwalling.com/sandbox/flexmap/03_05_07/ available with “view source”? TIA

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