Single spawning jigsaw piece

[Iakona]

Hello there, i'm quite a newbie to designing games in flash.

I know how to make a basic jigsaw but at the moment i'm trying to create a map of europe jigsaw. Unfortunately with the map taking up the majority of the room there's no space to have all the pieces on screen at once.

I had a look for solutions and i found this...

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-gam...e-map-game.php

How would i go about making it so that only 1 piece appears on screen until you have placed it?

[samac1068]

I can't see the link from here, but just thinking about the problem and possible solutions this is what I would do.

Not sure of which version of actionscript you are using, but I would store the various puzzle pieces in the library, no need to place them on the stage until I need them. I would also have an array that contains the name of each piece, along with a column for a boolean value (piece placed or not) and the position of the piece if placed. As the user adds a piece of the puzzle, I would loop through this array and pull up the next available piece until it is all complete. If a piece is available, then I would add it to the stage for the use to move about.