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Interactive objects in a panorama

Hi guys,

Is it possible with PanoSalado to load a SWF as a panorama and having some interactive objects in it?

I want to have a panorama full of static items, and when I click on one of them, it disapear with a small animation.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

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re: Interactive objects in a panorama

Hey there:

There's no ability to use a SWF as a panorama, but having SWF/Video hotspots is possible.

Currently you _can_ tween or animate hotspots on the panorama.

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick Cheatham
FlashPanos.com creator, Panoramic Photographer
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SWF hotspots

Hi,

Using SWFs as hotspots is currently not implemented, however, using FLVs is working. It is only a minor stretch to modify PanoSalado to use SWFs also. So it is on the list.

As Patrick mentioned, you can tween the various properties of a hotspot. Of special note with this is the useOwnContainer flag in the XML for the hotspot. If useOwnContainer="false", then the only properties available are the properties of a Papervision Plane (DisplayObject3D). If useOwnContainer="true", the hotspot will be rendered to its own sprite, allowing you to tween Sprite properties as well as Plane properties, notably, alpha.

So, depending on what sort of animation you are looking for, this might do it for you (fade in / out e.g.), but if you are looking for an animation with a sequence of bitmaps, you might see if you can use the FLV functionality, and if you really need a movieclip animation, it'll be implemented soon, but I doubt it'll be next week.

Hope this helps,

Zephyr