Week 6 - Enter the map view

Very productive week, was during mid semester break..so we did not really get a break but we did get the servlett, xml parser and map views mostly working.

Matt and Dom are in-charge of the servlet and XML parser, so i will let you read about that on thier blogs.

My job was to make the map view load properly with pins for nearby users locations, SUCCESS! :D:D:D got it working...



The next step though was to have multiple pins, otherwise it would be pointless even having a map display. Who would want to see just one user out of say 100 :P

anywho, a few tweaks here and there and I made a marker class that lets you add pins based on locations onto the map view at any time. So I called it a few times to test, and hey presto it worked :)



The final thing i wanted to get working this week was to have custom graphics as the pins...and also a button in the annotation so the user could initiate the private chat. So after even more fiddling around and tweaking this is what I finally came up with :)


Using random stick men as our graphics :P


and a little button within the annotation to switch to private chat view


well there, as i said productive week, however the pins do reset after interacting with them or switching views...but that can be fixed during next weeks coding session :P