[ka-Map-users] recent cvs updates

[Delfos, Jacob]

Paul,

The keymap seems not to be draggable anymore. The transparency of the
legend is also off (intentionally?), but that's easily changed. Also,
did you remove all the zoom buttons (magnifying glasses)? Other than
that, most things seem to work ok in Firefox.

Unfortunately in IE, a lot of images don't appear. Prior to the
PNG-changes you made, they showed up as broken GIF's (same problem as in
Chameleon; images are valid, but show up broken in IE). With your PNG
changes, many show up blank (nothing), including the keymap (which
sometimes shows up after ten times loading). I know this is an IE
problem, so probably nothing much you can do about it. Unfortunately,
this problem is particularly pronounced from the server I'm running with
IE6 SP2, so I can't use Ka-Map internally for production yet.....
I just wish Microsoft could fix this..... 

Regards,

Jacob






> -----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: 6 January 2006 06:47
> To: ka-Map-users
> Subject: [ka-Map-users] recent cvs updates
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I've committed a bunch of changes to ka-Map to add Tim Schaub's  
> really cool scalebar into the interface.  Unfortunately it didn't  
> play nicely with the existing css so I took some time today 
> to adjust  
> the layout a little bit.  In the process I may have broken some  
> stuff, but it seems to be working fine for me in Safari, ffox and IE  
> (although I still have the problem with IE refresh?).
> 
> I've moved a couple of things around and changed some of the styling  
> (mostly as I was experimenting with stuff) and positioning.  It  
> shouldn't be drastically different, but the keymap moved to the top  
> right (under the toolbar) with a separate toggle and the scalebar  
> moved to the reference section.
> 
> I've also converted almost all the images to png.  There may be a  
> couple more to work on.  For those who want to use ka-Map 
> with IE and  
> have transparent PNGs, I've included a version of pngHack in the  
> sample app.  To use it, simply create an image tag as usual 
> and add a  
> class="png24" ... only caveat is that you need to have a width and  
> height on the image.  Also, there are limitations ...
> 
> How it works:
> 
> in screen.css is a class for img.png24 that executes a javascript  
> function (only supported by IE) that replaces the src of the image  
> with images/a_pixel.gif and creates the appropriate filter to load  
> the png.  The function is in startUp.js.
> 
> So once the image has been 'hacked', you can no longer just change  
> the src (to do a mouseover for instance), you will need to detect IE  
> somehow (perhaps look for a_pixel.gif in the src) and change the  
> filter instead.
> 
> Also, it doesn't work for background-image images ... either 
> manually  
> or with the hack :)
> 
> If this version proves reasonably good over the next few days, I'm  
> going to cut a release ... I have a couple of small bugs to 
> look into  
> first.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
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