Creating Interactive Maps

From: Jeff (knightoftherose98_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/16/04

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    Date: 16 Jun 2004 11:50:11 -0700

    Hello Folks,

    I am hoping that the folks of this forum could help me out with a GUI
    problem that I am having.

    The problem is:

    I need to display a map of North American on the Map. Then users need
    to drag icons from another window (or frame) onto the map. The map
    need to "capture" the icon and determine whether or not the icon is in
    the correct location on the map. For example there is a map of North
    America with the cities Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Tampa Bay,
    Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal on it. The user would drag an icon for
    Montreal onto the map. If the user drags the icon to on top of any of
    the cities the maps should "capture" the icon. It should be able to
    determine that the user icorrect placed the Montreal icon on on New
    York. It should also be able to determine if the user correctly
    placed the Montreal icon on Montreal.

    Now I have been trying to figure out a good way to approach this but
    have come up with nothing. Can anyone suggest a way of approaching
    this problem? If they could perhaps even point me towards some sample
    code to go about this I would appriciate it.

    Thanks,
    Jeff Dunnett
    Department of Psychology
    University of Guelph
    Guelph, Ontario
    Canada

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