Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems maps of divine divinity

the maps are really neat, but when i make an enlargment and click on the flags

there is no text. i assume i am missing some software; i downloaded adobe reader

and tried again. But no luck. any help here? be appreciated. thanks. rev.

oh yes i have a current dell computer and XP operating system, but i reinstalled the operating system -and i think i reinstalled all the software.

i am talking about the maps at the larian studios website not "in-game" maps. sorry.

The maps in the forum are generally screenshots, so do not contain any other information. Using Javascript or Flash it should be possible to replicate the mouse over text description used in the game itself, but that would be a fair amount of extra work for little extra benefit (it is easier to number the flags/locations and list the descriptions beside or on the screenshot). I don't think any of the screenshots on Larian's site are set up to pop up flag information (I vaguely recall one fan site that did so for some of the maps).

i'm talking about thses maps http://www.fictionalworlds.com/Divdiv/Divine%20Divinity%20Maps.htm and i got flash 7, but when i enlarge the maps and move my cursor to the flags i get no text.

The map links on that page are all to jpg graphics files, so there is no way to get pop-up information at certain places on the screenshots.

Graphical menus in web pages were originally created by splitting an image into rectangular sections and reassembling them in an HTML table, so the web page looked the same as the original, but certain areas of the image could link to other pages, etc. With the development of Flash and Javascript there are easier ways to get mouse-over effects at various 'hot spots' on an image, but they are still much more elaborate than simply providing a screenshot, so in almost all cases there is no effort to replicate the flag information effect on fan sites.