• Albania
• Andorra
• Bulgaria
• Estonia
• Greece
• Hungary
• India
• Ireland
• Japan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Spain (mercator)
• Ukraine

New features added:

Now every custom movie (defined in <movies>) has an attribute that references to the main AmMap object. So the movies now have easier access tomap object’s public properties ant functions. I.e.:

_ammap.zoom_level
_ammap.setZoom()

Additional background settings and map overlay

<stretch>  [false] (true / false) should we stretch background over the whole width/heigh?

<overlay_file> [] (filename) swf or jpg file to use as an overlay for the map. This file must be located in path/ folder (set in html file)

<overlay_stretch> [false] (true / false) should we stretch overlay over the whole width/heigh?

Ability to reorder movies, lines and labels layers

A new <layers> setting in which you can set the order of appearance of movies, lines and labels layers. I.e.:

<layers>labels,movies,lines</layers>

In This case lines will be drawn on top, movies underneath it and labels at the bottom. Please note that objects with X/Y coordinates still be drawn over objects with long/lat coordinates due to the nature of internal object placement organization.

Ability to always show hand cursor

New setting <always_hand>. If set to true, mouse cursor will always be hand but only if drag_map=true.

Additional JavaScript function call: amRegisterClickAnywhere()

Works similarly to amRegisterClick, except it is called even when clicked
on a non-object (hence "anywhere") like background, disabled area, etc.

When clicked on background it returns "__background" for an oid.

Internal event broadcasting mechanism

Now main AmMap object acts as a brodcaster of events included movies’ objects can register as listeners to. I.e.:

__ammap.addListener(myObject);

Whenever some event occurs amMap will call corresponding method on myObject. Refer to online documentation for the complete list of events.

Developer mode shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts were added in developer mode to copy map info into clipboard:

Ctrl + 1 - Copy longitude and latitude
Ctrl + 2 - Copy stage x and y
Ctrl + 3 - Copy stage x% and y%
Ctrl + 4 - Copy zoom info

Additional embedded map marker/movie: rectangle_centered

amMap positions embeded marker "rectangle" according to upper left corder. If you would rather position according to the center of the rectangle use "rectangle_centered"

Bug fixes:

Setting <zoom_on_click> to true caused anomalies when switching to another map which has this setting disabled.

Now when text_box is set to show_on_hover=true and hide_on_roll_out=false text box will show X (close) button.

I am happy to announce you amMap v 2.4.0. It has a long list of features which makes amMap even better:

Zooming to latitude and longitude is now supported
Now it’s enough to set latitude, longitude and zoom level for the movie or area, and after user will click on this object, the map will zoom-in centering the given latitude and longitude. For example:

<movie file=”target” title=”Vienna” lat=”48.2″ long=”16.3″ zoom=”500%”></movie>

You can also add lat and long attributes to the areas. Note, if you set zoom_x and zoom_y attributes, the chart will use them instead of lat and long. Check World capitals example to see this in action.

Zooming to longitude and latitude with JavaScript
A new JavaScript function:

flashMovie.setZoomLongLat(zoom_level,longitude,latitude,instant);

Allows zooming to latitude and longitude with JavaScript.

New JavaScript functions

flashMovie.zoomIn();
flashMovie.zoomOut();

Will zoom-in or zoom-out the map. You can use these functions for fixing zooming-with-mouse-wheel problem, which appears when the wmode is set to “transparent” or “opaque”.

Default colors for the movies
New settings:

<movie>
  <color></color>
  <color_hover></color_hover>
  <color_selected></color_selected>
</movie>

Allows you to set general colors for the movies. Especially comfortable when a lot of the same movies are used, like in World capitals example.

Filling unlisted areas with some color
A new setting:

<area>
  <color_unlisted></color_unlisted>
</area>

allows setting the color of the areas which are in the map file, but not listed in the data file. If you don’t set any color here, the area will keep it’s original color. This allows keeping data file smaller.

Smoothing images
A new setting, <force_smoothing> was added. If you use bitmap images as your maps, then you can set this to “true” - the quality of the image will be better (might slow down the zooming).

Disabling JavaScript functions
A new setting, <js_enabled> was added. It allows disabling all javascript-html communication. Id you set this to false, then the map won’t listen and won’t call any JavaScript functions. This will also disable the security warning message when opening the chart map your hard drive or CD.

World map updated
Some minor islands were added to the World map

NEW FEATURES:

Reload both data and settings files when drilling down
Previously, when building drill-down map, you could link an area or a movie to another data file only. With a new map some people want to change some settings so now you can link both to a new data and settings files. All you need to do is to separate data and settings files with “||”

For example: url=”europe_data.xml||europe_settings.xml”

Remove the “home” option from the object list
If you want to remove the “home” option from the object list dropdown or listbox, simple set “none” for the <object_list><home_text> setting.

Clicking anywhere on a map area can center and zoom-in.
If you want to enable this feature, set <zoom><zoom_on_click> to true. In this case the <background_zooms_to_top> setting will be set to false automatically.

Text in the text box can be not selectable
You can disable selection of text in a text box by setting <text_box><selectable> to “false”.

Preloader when reloading data
A new setting, <preloader_on_reload> was added. In case you are reloading data or settings with JavaScript function, you can make preloader visible or invisible. The default value is false.

FIX: “Infinity” in the preloader. In some cases people could see the “Infinity” text in the preloader and the preloader bar was broken for a second. Fixed in this version.

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JavaScript function setSettings(settings, rebuild) added.

JavaScript function getSettings() added.

JavaScript functions are cued now - previously you could call one JS function at time and call another only after the map finished the previous process. Now, you can call several functions one after another, without waiting for the map to finish doing something. The functions are cued and all of them will be executed.

New JavaScript function amProcessCompleted(chart_id, process) added. This function is called after some process initialized by some JS function is finished. For example, if you make the map to reload data by calling reloadData function, after the data is reloaded, the chart will call amProcessCompleted unction and the “process” parameter will be “reloadData” - the same as the unction name you called. 

JavaScript function amError(chart_id, message) is called if the error, such as file not found occurs.

JavaScript function amReturnImageData(chart_id, data) is called when the chart finishes collecting image data when exporting the map as an image.

Fixes:
<object_list><color_hover> and <object_list><color_selected> settings are accepted.

Map no longer flickers on setData(data) function.

When <redraw> was set to true, the lines of higher then the top level disappeared when the window was resized.