I’m an old Flash guy, with almost 20 years experience with Flash and Director.
I’m trying to build an animated network map of our organization. I want to show electricity and data flowing, and have switches to simulate a power outage or ISP outage. I want the animation to change to show that power or data is coming from a different source. I have an electronic circuit simulator that does this very well. I would want to use this for other situations also. Basically, all emergency contingency planning. I need to show the non-technical how our systems would handle an outage.
I guess what I’m looking for is Omnigraffle meets Flash. Omni would be ideal, but there is basically no interactivity with that app, so it wouldn’t work for me. I only need for this to work on a browser on a handful of computers. Maybe just on an iPad.
Hype operates on the HTML DOM, so you can use javascript methods to either manipulate the DOM directly (such as setting the .innerHTML of an element if you want to put some text/html inside), or when possible using Hype 3.5’s getter/setter API to change specific properties of elements.
In some cases if you’re doing really complex diagrams on the fly it might just be easier to do SVG or Canvas programming from within JavaScript.