[ka-Map-users] cvs access available

[Paul Spencer]

Chris,

Chris Tweedie wrote:
> Excellent work Paul. My first impressions based purely on frontend.. (no
> access to cvs until I get home)
> 
> 1. Layer transparency is excellent - although a bit non-intuitive. 
> 	a. Is there anyway we could define a new tag either in the
> mapfile (metdata?) or in the kamap layer config to specify default
> transparency values for layer groups?

sure ... a bit of javascript could handle that, plus some changes to the 
init.php script I think

> 	b. Needs to be a way in which the user can identify the current
> transparency level. 

well ... I'm not sure how useful it is to have the user change the 
opacity anyway, this was more of a toy example.  Adding 1.a. above would 
be more useful

> 	c. Perhaps a "slider" may be a more efficient way to set trans
> level? Will also not limit the user to the current 4 trans levels)? 

yes ... but as with above, not sure if this is useful.

> 
> 2. No overview map? Bug?

probably :)

> 
> 3. Layer toggling seems fine, minus the bugs you've already mentioned.
> 
> 4. Now that the underlying functionality is there, any plans for
> client-side layer ordering?

it would be easy to add, but I don't see much point ...

> 
> Great work all round guys,
> 
> Chris Tweedie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ka-map-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> [mailto:ka-map-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Spencer
> Sent: Friday, 27 May 2005 10:45 AM
> To: ka-map-users at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: [Maybe SPAM] [ka-Map-users] cvs access available
> 
> ka-Mapers ...
> 
> I've set up a live demo of the newer version of ka-Map at:
> 
> http://www.mapsherpa.com/ka-map/
> 
> it has a couple of glitches that we know about:
> 
> * in IE there seems to be a javascript error when you pan ... this 
> apparently affects the keymap updating
> 
> * in all browsers, if you change layer visibility then zoom in, all the 
> checkboxes reset even if the layers are really on.
> 
> There are also a couple of cool new things besides being able to turn 
> layers on and off :)  check it out!
> 
> CVS access is now available, you can get the details from the cvs page 
> on the following page:
> 
> http://ka-map.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=cvs.html
> 
> (ignore the warning ... it won't disappear until about 26 May 2005 23:00
> 
> EST when the pages get updated)
> 
> Please note that the previously distributed files contained code that is
> 
> now in branch-0-1 in cvs.  If you checkout with no branch, you will get 
> the newer version of the code ... it is almost identical except that I 
> have now extracted most of the javascript into separate files and 
> started to provide an API.
> 
> Also, the newer version now has the capability to separate the map image
> 
> into multiple layers based on groups in your map file, and a legend 
> template is provided to turn layers on and off.
> 
> When we have some feedback on stability of this version, we'll cut a new
> 
> tarball for those that are scared off by CVS :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul

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