Thursday, April 26, 2007

Putting on the polish

I've been working on my GA Flash Map interface tonight. I think it's come along quite a ways since yesterday. Here's my latest file: flashMapApr25

I've added an intro page that gives a bit of an explanation.. this page is still horribly blank though. I may add more text on the right side to explain the differences between the options that can be chosen. Another option would be to include a screen shot of the actual program with a brief "how-to".

I'm at a stopping point for the night though, I think. I want to divide the application into two different functions -- magnitude (gradient) display for 4-H and POD, and something separate for the Impact Statements. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to determine when the user has chosen the latter. So, I must hope that I can talk to Keith tomorrow with a final hour solution.

I also want to include more information about each county, such as the county office information. This is data I need to feed in. I'm not too sure if it will happen so I'll sleep on it and hope that Plan B will transpire overnight!

If I can divide the program into Impacts vs. other, I can use the link and select options on the county buttons to interface with the Impacts database. If I can't get that to work, I'll just focus on one feature only tomorrow.

I have learned two cool Photoshop effects tonight:

 

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