Floor Plan Project

[RezaT]

Hi from Montreal,
I've suggested AMS 5 Pro to my company, and we bought a few months ago. So I've been learning and creating Presentation CD's. Great!

Just wanted to see if it's possible to create a Floor Plan on AMS? What I mean is that I have a floor plan, sliced and on each stations I have 2 gifs for on mouse over event. Right now, it is in ASP and is linked to a SQL database. So the idea is that I would create a list box and link each name to a gif on the screen. Also, want to be able to add a group of people, i.e., if we want to know the people working on a particular project and where they are sitting, a bunch of gifs will be highlighted. And that's not all. I want to be able to manage people’s places. Example, if someone changes a group.

So has someone done this kind of thing in AMS, or I should ask my friends to build something in VB?

Thanks allot!

[Lorne]

That would definitely be possible in AutoPlay. Quite a neat idea for a project, in fact. I wouldn't mind seeing the end result if you could post it.

You'll probably want to look at the SQLite plugin...you might be able to export your MySQL database to a CSV file or something and import it into a SQLite database using one of the third party utilities out there.

BTW...instead of using GIFs, consider using PNGs with alpha transparency to get some nice glow effects.

[RezaT]

Thank you guys. I will have to talk with the guy who did all the programming behind our project. I consider myself an artist...so programming is not my strongest point. I am starting to understand it....! Anyhow, thanks for the tip with PNG...I said GIF, because that's what I have right now, but it could be transferred to PNG. I'm sure I'll be having lots of questions...

That would definitely be possible in AutoPlay. Quite a neat idea for a project, in fact. I wouldn't mind seeing the end result if you could post it.

You'll probably want to look at the SQLite plugin...you might be able to export your MySQL database to a CSV file or something and import it into a SQLite database using one of the third party utilities out there.

BTW...instead of using GIFs, consider using PNGs with alpha transparency to get some nice glow effects.