[Chameleon] zoomin widget

[Paul Dymecki]

Hello,
   I was wondering if there is a way to make the zoomin widget, work without
the bounding box?  ie just by clicking on a point..
thx,
Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Spencer" <pagameba at magma.ca>
To: <bartvde at xs4all.nl>
Cc: <chameleon at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Chameleon] waitimage and button width


> Bart,
>
> bartvde at xs4all.nl wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul (cc list),
> >
> > -- 1 --
> > I found one difference between Chameleon 1.1 and 1.99 with regard to the
> > WaitImage.
> >
> > This is what I used to use:
> > <waitimage language="nl-NL" waitimage="/chameleon_images/spinner_nl.gif"
> > waitimagewidth="246" waitimageheight="50"/>
> >
> > chameleon_images was an alias to chameleon/htdocs/images
> >
> > Now I have to use:
> > <waitimage language="nl-NL" waitimage="images/spinner_nl.gif"
> > waitimagewidth="246" waitimageheight="50"/>
> >
> > Probably the same kind of change as with the popup.css ...
>
> yes this is probably the same problem.
>
> >
> > -- 2 --
> > I have one issue with the button width, but this is not specific for
> > version 1.99 of Chameleon.
> >
> > When internationalizing a Chameleon application, some texts on the
buttons
> > become significantly larger than in the English version, which means I
> > have to change the source code to provide a different width in the
> > MakeButton function.
> >
> > It would be great if something automagically could be arranged in which
> > buttons would estimate their width needed. But I know this will be
> > difficult if not impossible to implement because of font differences
etc.
> > and it could mess up HTML layouts etc.
> >
> > But maybe something else could be invented so that this would not
involve
> > changing source code. This makes things difficult to maintain.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> we talked about this already, we were thinking of having a mechanism for
> wildcarding the widget (and posssibly height) to allow the button to
> stretch.  The current thoughts are:
>
> width="*" - button is drawn just wide enough to accomodate the icon and
> text and padding
>
> width="100*" - the button is drawn at least 100 px wide but will be
> stretched to allow for longer text if required
>
> width="100" - the button is exactly 100 px regardless of text
>
> Same logic could probably be used for height
>
> I haven't investigated this yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
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