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Question

Hi my name is James,
This is my situation. I have a map. This map is of the greater Denver area. I need it to do things, and its not cooperating.
I want it to be a single image      on the web site, and when you roll over the image it "zooms in"      like a rectangle magnifying glass over where the mouse is and follow the      mouse, getting ride of the need for the scroll bar. So when you move the      move to the borders of "box" it'll move in that direction but      stop at the edges of the map.
I need to have a "button"      for each city and when your over the city to bring up a banner saying      something like "this is the city blah blah click for more info",      and have it attached to a url to so when you click it it'll take the user      to a dedicated page for THAT city.
I need to have the banner to be      "flashy" and look "professional"
Sounds easy enough right? WRONG!!!
I have had issue after issue with this thing, you have no idea! I need it done by the end of March and I've been working on it sence the beginning of January. So here are the problems im having
I have no idea how to      incorporate the "zoom" feature or what kind of command to use.      I've tried the "scale" one and it didn’t work right. I have NO experience      in actionscript what so ever. I tried using HTML and it was nice but not      "flashy" enough.
I cant get the banner to work      right, I have the buttons set up, I used the pen tool to make sure the      area is exactly covered so that there wasn't any gaps when your mouse      rolls over it. At first I used the oval tool and just made bubbles over      the general areas and had massive gaps in between cities and some ovals interloped      because they’re so close together. So I figured that issue out. Now I have      the buttons and I have each button have an "over" and a "hit"      frame. The "over" one for the banner and the "hit" one      for the url. I think I have that figured out but I don’t know how to put      the code in for just the "hit" frame to take the user to the url      and I don’t know if I have to make a banner for EVERY city or if there’s a      short cut I could use. And anyways I don’t want to work on that till I get      issue #1 fixed.
Just so you know what im working with here is the image im working with.
So if anyone could walk me through it per say or just tell me the available commands to get the "zoom" to work I would be your best friend forever. haha
Thanks in advance,
James

Answer 1

Code for Magnifying glass in AS3:
http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/magglass/index.html
Code for Tooltip class in as3:
http://hairydoodle.blogspot.com/2009/04/as3-tooltip.html
change this line of the class:
_tf.text = tip;
to
_tf.htmlText = tip;
and then in your main.fla say sth like:
//when you click on Denver a Browser will open the URL
var toolTip:ToolTip = new ToolTip( 'This is <a href="http://www.denver.com">Denver<\> );