[ka-Map-users] slideBy

[Charlton Purvis]

Hey, Paul:

> I would have thought you would have needed to do something like:
> 
> var oMap = myKaMap.getCurrentMap();
> for (var i in oMap.aLayers)
> {
>      var layer = oMap.aLayers[i];
>      for (var i in layer.domObj.childNodes)
>      {
>          layer.setTile( layer.domObj.childNodes[i] );
>      }
> }

I gave that a shot, and it doesn't change the layer until I pan or do
something to the image.  That's why I got lucky w/ the slideBy or at least
why I thought I'd try it!

> I am assuming that you are passing the timestamp as part of setting
> the img src in the setTile function ...

Maybe I'm going about this all wrong, but it makes sense to me.  I've got
files that look like:

avhrr_sst_composite_2005_09_23.png  avhrr_sst_composite_2005_09_27.png
avhrr_sst_composite_2005_09_23.wld  avhrr_sst_composite_2005_09_27.wld

And I have a select box w/ yyyy-mm-dd.  So all I do is pass along to
tile.php whatever timestamp they've selected.  And it's w/i tile.php where I
determine whether or not a particular layer needs a timestamp.  If so, tack
it on to the group_name so that the tile routine will treat it like a
uniquely named group.  So I end up w/ group names like
avhrr_sst_composite_2005_09_23 (internally).  And if no image is found, of
course, I have to create one!  So at that point I
$oLayer-set('data',$the_path_with_timestamp).

That's probably more than you wanted to know, but I think my main issue is
making sure that tile.php knows what the dynamic filename is so that it can
either grab the cached image or produce it.

Charlton