Updating entity attributes with Javascript

[Updating entity attributes with Javascript]

Hi.

 

 

 

I'm looking for the best way to solve this:

 

 

 

I've got a map of europe, and all its countries. I want to click on a country and update the corresponding with a new background color. Is there a good, clean way of doing this?

 

 

 

Right now I've had to set the XML of the map to a javascript variable, pass that in, on click use a regular expression to find the entity in the XML and replace the color attribute with a new one, then set the entire XML back to fusionmaps using setDataXML. This is a slow and error prone way of doing it.

 

 

 

What I'd so like to see in FusionMaps would be true integration with the data, such as...

 

function entityClickCallback(entity) {

 if(entity.getAttribute('color') == '#ff00ff') {

   entity.setAttribute('color', '#bf1942');

 }

}

 

 

 

I don't know if that sort of interaction between javascript and actionscript is possible (entity would have to be an object with functions), but boy would it be awesome.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Doomhammer.