Susan Clyde
Flash 7/06
some brief pseudocode for final project

****the pic display****

    look for pictures to display - put this code in fxn and pass it code for land/water (see issues)
    
    onMouseDown get mouse coordinates, date, and whether spot is land or water and call showStuff
    
    showStuff(chosen, lOrW){
    
	    boolean foundsomething = false;

	    for (int i = 0; i<picdb.size; i++){
		    if (chosen.date >= pic.starttime) && (chosen.date <= pic.endtime) && 
		       (chosen.long >= pic.startlong) && (chosen.long <= pic.endlong) &&
		       (chosen.lat >= pic.startlat)   && (chosen.lat <= pic.endlat)  {

		       grab pic and store in array toBeDisplayed
		       
		       foundsomething = true;
		    }
	    }
	    
            if (foundsomething){
            
                    display(toBeDisplayed);
                    
            }
           
	    else {  //or could check if display array is empty

		    implement missing data algorithm so that at least one pic (or more?) is displayed

		    iterate thru all pics again and find closest matching candidate
		    latitude carries more weight than longitude because of typical habitat patterns

		    for (int j = 0; j<picdb.size; j++){

			bestcandidate = somecandidate; //replace with every match that is closer

		    } 

		    display (bestcandidate);
	    }
    }
    
    display(displayArry){  //overload this fxn or could pass it array of 1 w/ missing data alg
    
            set coordinates for placement/put in slideshow/other...depends on interface
              
    }
    
    

             
       
****the map display****

implement a slider that displays map shots - not sure how this will work yet, biggest concern is missing
    data after >200mya and land/water detection. would be nice to have some color too



****major issues to think about****

user interface/layout

what to do about missing map data >200mya - consider using photoshopy type thing to recreate all map
    pictures on my own, there is data on internet to model from
    
what to do about land/water borders

complete db conversion to xml

db coordinates vs. Flash coordinates...this is going to take some funky math conversion in order to work
   unless i set stage to 180 height, 360 width (and that's too small)
   
implementing basic search fxns - where will this be displayed