[Chameleon] Re: mapsize and jsapi

[Liz Godwin]

it seems the test of this message was ommitted in the posting that
come through. I'm resending the text portion only (see below) as plain
text.  If you have a problem with the attachments and want them,
please contact me directly.

Cheers,

Liz

> Hello list,
>
> I've had a couple of requests about how we made the map resize automatically
> with a window resize in our applications
> see http://nlwis-snite1.agr.gc.ca/eco/ for an example
> application.
>
> I agree it could be written a bit better - but I don't have a lot of time
> for doing that before posting, so instead I will pass off what I hope is all
> the files I affected for this functionality.  I've included a template file
> with css and js files that create a wireframe of the application with only
> MapDHTML and CompassPoint Widgets.  I've also included the snippits from the
> cwcjsapi.js and UpdateMap.php that I added.  The snippit in cwcjsapi is a
> function, so it's no important where exactly it goes in the file.  the
> snippit in UpdateMap should happen just before the $oMapSession->saveState()
> line (~ 750 something).
>
> The positioning of these elements is done first with CSS and then the
> resizing is done with JavaScript.  The positioning is relative to adjacent
> components, so leaving the wireframe in helps to see how that is done.
>
> Really the javascript should be with the widget and not separate like I have
> it.  I started out having it separate and havn't had a chance to move it in.
>  When something works, it's hard to start breaking it ;-)
>
> Feel free to run with the code - if you make improvements, I wouldn't mind
> hearing about them.  Also, please don't hesitate to post folllow up
> questions.  I did this assembling in haste and i might have missed something
> or not it explained it well enough.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Liz Godwin
>
>