[ka-Map-users] auto query

[Paul Spencer]

Comments requested from community on desirability of this feature  
being made part of ka-map cvs please :)

If I get some generally positive responses then I'll negotiate with  
Brent to get this into cvs.

Cheers

Paul

On 10-Jan-06, at 12:14 AM, Brent Pedersen wrote:

> hmmm, you're right--i wonder if that will be the case without the  
> alert(). i was keying off mousedown and mouseup, but maybe i can  
> just use onclick??
>
>
> On 1/9/06, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:  
> Looks nice, but it has broken the double click to recenter.
>
> -Steve
>
> Brent Pedersen wrote:
> > hi,
> > the new updates to kaMap are looking great, thanks all!
> >
> > the main issue i hear from users of kaMap is that it's not  
> intuitive to
> > switch between navigate and query mode (darned google maps!).
> > so i added a check in kaNavigator.  if the mouseup event occurs  
> near a
> > mousedown event (within 3 pixels, but easily changed), assume its a
> > query, and send the coords to the myQuery function. else the  
> mouseup and
> > mousedown events are far apart, it must be a drag, so carry on as  
> usual.
> > obviously this only works for point queries, but it avoids turning
> > kaNavigator on and off to do simple queries.
> >
> > it only requires one extra line in startUp.js:
> >
> > myKaNavigator.setAutoQuery(1,myQuery);
> >
> > where myQuery is the function that is called if the mouseup/down are
> > near.  if that function is not called or it is recalled with 0, the
> > kaMap navigation will behave as before.
> >
> > a working example (with the default alert() in myQuery) and the  
> modified
> > kaTool.js are currently at:
> >
> > http://mul-115-1.cnr.berkeley.edu/fire/geoFRAP/map/htdocs/
> >
> > may be useful.
> > -brent
> >
> >
> >  
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