[Chameleon] Certain tools not functioning in IE (6.0)

Jason Fournier jfournier at dmsolutions.ca
Tue Aug 23 14:57:00 EDT 2005


Jennifer,

Would it be possible to see one of your application?  It would help in 
debugging the issue.

Thanks,
Jay



Jennifer Zeisloft wrote:
> Hi Jacob-
> 
> None of the applications causing problems had IMAGEPATH or IMAGEURL tags 
> in the WEB object (only max and minscale).  I added these tags, tested 
> the apps, deleted the final "/", tested, changed the direction of the 
> slashes, tested, etc.  No luck.
> 
> And then I realized the error is a little more complicated than I had 
> originally described.   While none of the buttons work in IE, those with 
> pop-ups associated with them have a hover state, but don't do anything.  
> The other buttons simply do nothing.  After further testing, I realized 
> that none of the buttons associated with pop-ups worked in Mozilla 
> either (but they do have a hover state, just as in IE).  But the rest of 
> the buttons work in Mozilla.
> 
> One last note: all of these buttons worked prior to the upgrade of ms4w 
> and chameleon (from ms4w 1.0.3 and chameleon 2.0 to ms4w 1.2.1 and 
> chameleon 2.2).  Could it be something with the way the new installation 
> handles these widgets?
> 
> Again, thank you very much for your help!
> 
> Jennifer Zeisloft
> UW Sea Grant
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/22/05, *Jacob Delfos* <jacob.delfos at maunsell.com 
> <mailto:jacob.delfos at maunsell.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Jennifer,
>      
>     I have had the keymap disappear as well. I think the cause may be
>     that Chameleon adds too many slashes to the web image path. Firefox
>     can deal with that, but IE sometimes doesn't. Try removing the
>     trailing slash from your web image path. Check the URL of the keymap
>     in chameleon, and see if it is valid.
>      
>     Maybe that will fix some of the other issues you mentioned. They all
>     appear to work for me, so it is probably something in the
>     configuration......
>      
>     regards,
>      
>     Jacob
>      
>      
>      
>      
>      
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>     <mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org>] On Behalf Of Jennifer
>     Zeisloft
>     Sent: 23 August 2005 05:46
>     To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org <mailto:chameleon at lists.maptools.org>
>     Subject: [Chameleon] Certain tools not functioning in IE (6.0)
>      
> 
>     Hello All-
>      
>     We are running ms4w 1.2.1 and chameleon 2.2 and have a number of
>     demo applications running.  All of the applications (except one) are
>     having trouble running in internet explorer (6.0), but work fine in
>     firefox.  Specifically, the key maps do not appear, and the only
>     button-style tools (e.g. not "zoom factor" or "quick zoom") that
>     work are
>     -zoom to bounding box or point
>     -legend
>     -mapsize
>     -maptips.
>      
>     The remaining button-style tools do not work (in addition to the key
>     map not appearing):
>     -zoom in
>     -zoom out
>     -zoom to full extents
>     -recenter
>     -identify
>     -pan
>     -measure
>     -the pan arrows surrounding the main map
>     -the mini buttons below the key map box
>      
>     I have read the list-serv entries for problems with IE and checked
>     that form method=post, and any other things I could think of.  I
>     also compared the templates for these applications to the one that
>     works and came up with nothing.  I would really appreciate any ideas
>     or solutions.  Thanks in advance for your help.
>      
>     Jennifer Zeisloft
>     UW Sea Grant
>      
> 
>      
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