Flash + Fireworks CS4 Tutorial [HQ] - Interactive Map Button Menu Interface

[eyadmufti]

nice ... is there any way to enlarge the map after clicking on one of those buttons !!

lot of thx.

[potezno]

Very good tutorial! As for the continuous mistakes about geography... I must confess I was kind of angry about calling "provinces" of Europe instead of "countries" until I heard that Americans have a problem with the geography, hahaha. In short, good job buddy!

[noashi45]

thank you very much !

[robertobaldav]

How Do I save it as .swf?

[samsungprin]

I heard that Fireworks is only for prototyping websites. that means that I need another program if I want to make the entire website? after prototyping is done?

[adderneo]

can u tell me how render and zoom an area in your flash map so that another small map can show up of the selected state of country ...plz help me...!!!

thanx in advance

[adderneo]

can u tell me how render and zoom an area in your flash map so that another small map can show up of the selected state of country ...plz help me...!!!

thanx in advance

[adderneo]

Is there is any way to open up the bigger map of the clicked area?? plz help me!!!

[FCHollywoodFCB]

is it possible to make it show some text when i mouse over a country?

[ANGELOchilly]

awesome thanks man how do you make them into links ?

[adamooodb]

Thank you, you taught me to do maps! ;)

[musicfourmyself]

Dude didnt know where spain was on the map bahahaha BUT.......BUT a very good tutorial taught me alot thankyou for spending the time explaining this. did exactly what you explained and mine looked all good. thumbs up

[Royalheadshot]

europe ist made up of provinces! theyre countries!

[timjac11]

Great tutorial.

There is the slight problem where the bordering countries are affected.

To refine the button's active area, set a 4th keyframe in country's button. 'Hit'

Just selecting 'Add Keyframe' from the right-click menu will copy the image from the 'down' keyframe.

Then goto, Modify...Bitmap...Trace Bitmap...

Reduce the minimum area to 1, to increase the accuracy (increase if appropriate).

Now 'Test Movie'. and.... Bingo!!!

[klopreturn]

great tuto, thanx

[roozbeh12]

You have no right to call yourselves Americans, you are all foreigners in the USA and the real Americans are native Americans or red Indians as you call them...

Control + shift + up, control + shit +down

[na0512]

Brill tutorial - makes my life a sinch!! To the Romans European countries were provinces and as far as I'm concerned, you're the Emperor of Flash! Nice going guy -excellent tut0rials

[LoughlinMichael]

Thanks for the tutorial, very useful.

But, hey, have a look at an atlas, not knowing where Spain, France and Portugal are is really quite shocking.

[Daremaksema]

Can i link the provinces when i click on them to direct me to a web page. Please Help!

[jamescav0]

If you need to deslect anythink then go select and press deslect very nice tut

[pokamusic]

nice video. the joke with europe isnt really funny thou

[Danotto9797]

@pokamusic Well he did mention "provinces" around the world...

[thekingricosuave]

americans are NOT stupid.lol

[ebonyimani]

Ur Awesome

[supercuax]

How can I do an interactive multilevel map? I mean Country-State-Counties. Thanks.

[jpk2003]

Thanx for the tutorial. With mine, the frame for each state overlaps the bordinering states (i did the U.S.). So, for example, CA covers most of NV, making it difficult to click NV. Moreover, when i hoover over the western part of NV, CA lights up.

Is there anyway to fix this (to make the part of the buttons that react to user actions snap to the border of each state?

[flashbuilding]

@jpk2003 - you can search here for my US Flash Button Map Interface, I already made it for you. You can download it free from my site.

[BeakInMyChicken]

I have the same problem .... even when i transfer a region to a blank document with a transparent background, it still reverts to the rectangular background in flash.. did you ever solve this? (aside from downloading the finished product)

[jcposso777]

@jpk2003 The same thing happens to me, I work for a company in Colombia, and some deparments cover the small ones, making it impossible to select them. Is there any way to fix this, I'd really appreciate your help.

[NegraChula23]

O M G Thank you soooo much for this video, you saved my life ;) ... I loved the "Control-Shift Up, Control-Shift Down"

[gakodomi]

great great!!!! thanks!!

[mcgigglish]

great video, thanks

I was tapping my foot to the "Control-Shift UP, Control-Shift DOWN", bit at 5:42 :)

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[IslamicT]

If like, I've done everything you said, but you know how you said to use a map without writing, I used one without writing, but how do I put writing on it?

Also how do I make it so that like you can click on cities and it'll come up with a little pop up and say "this city was discovered in such and such" etc..how would I go about this?

[ronny22]

omg this is a good video thanks man

[aaguaront]

Very nice tutorial. It really helped to create a professional looking flash map.

Thanks a lot!

[austkl1]

hahahaha 7:30 ! your pretty funny man!

but come on... even i know 2 of the 3 countries you picked.... France and Spain!! WOO! and im only 15 :p

Thank you so much for this video. i love how mine turned out!

[pablobristol]

Excellent tutorial, thanx! Question: How do i get it so that when you click the country it takes you to the relevant web page? Thanx for your help.

[austkl1]

now idk what im talking about for this stuff but.... i know you can do that in fireworks easily. but idk about flash

[firefoxmatt]

Would it not be easier to just put the map in flash as a bitmap, then use - Trace Bitmap tool, then just click on each country which has been traced into a separate image and convert to symbol?

[fresasconchocolate]

Got it! Thanks

[fresasconchocolate]

Hi could you tell me which view are you using "classic" "developer"...? I can't see the comands up, over and down. Thanks!!

[manuelx23]

jejeje

[christophlamipie]

Great video and very knowledable BUT the countries are, from East to West (that's right to left:-) France, Spain and Pourtugal.

[peterbudo]

Nice tutorial, but you should be aware that Europe has countries and no provinces xD

[flashbuilding]

lol... I know...

[peterbudo]

Do you know any interesting Flex tutorials? I'm into Java development for mobile devices and Flex is more fun then JavaFX, so I'm looking for some interesting "petty" projects...

[Sentinith]

Does this work on CS3?

[kaiserqureshi]

i was thinking to create a web site button can you tell what Adobe software would it be required?

[DigitalPhantomFX]

cool!

[SparrowMachinimaPro]

Whats the differance from Fireworks and Photoshop?

[flashbuilding]

Photoshop is for gay artsy type people, usually that use a mac. Fireworks is for real men... lol

Just kidding... the real answer is Photoshop is more popular, and widely used by pros than fireworks is. Plus there are different things you can do with both that the other cannot do. I have them all and I like fireworks better. I like illustrator more than photoshop too.

[fireflymr]

Fireworks is just so much more efficient :)

[AlexanderHaefner]

Fireworks is vector, photoshop is bitmap