Re: Image manipulation/Flash? question

I think Flash could achieve what you need, but you'd need to express the
start and finish destinations in terms of x, y coordinates.  If you build a
function that defines the total area of your movie (or use Flash's built-in
one) then you could define what area within that movie you wanted your start
and end points.

One tricky thing with Flash is that I believe it has the x and y planes in
reverse of what you'd normally see in trigonometry.

A good source for this would be www.actionscripts.org

Specifically, try something like the example in the following tutorials:
http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/Motion_using_Actionscrip
t/index.shtml

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/actionscripted_movement/
index.shtml

In the above tutes, they explain a little about how the x/y functionality
works in Flash.  Once you have your starting and ending points, you can
instruct Flash to draw a line at a certain speed from point A to point B
using a FOR loop until it reaches the total length (in theory).

HTH,
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Davies, Elizabeth H." <EHDavies(at)West.com>
To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: Image manipulation/Flash? question


> I have a client who want to see close-to-real-time the origin and referred
destination of a packet in a graphical display. Visualize this with an
airline map.... Start out with a map of the USA... show where the flight
started and then bounce a line to where it lands... but for something that
travels at the speed of ethernet (at close to real time).
>
> Anyone have any idea on if this can be done? If so, preferred technology?
Could Flash do this if given the start and finish destinations from the
backend code? They want a web display... Any technology can be explored.
>
> Elizabeth Davies
> Web Designer
> West Interactive Corporation

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