[ka-Map-users] Customization of ka-Map legend

[Paul Spencer]

implemented in cvs.

On 27-Jun-06, at 5:20 PM, Paul Spencer wrote:

> I think it would be reasonable to have a set of global variables  
> that control this kind of thing and modify the individual controls  
> to be somewhat configurable.  The legend control is one that can  
> quite easily be configurable in this case.
>
> For the legend, this would entail adding a couple of attributes to  
> the constructor of the kaLegend class and using those to optionally  
> include or not include some of the controls.
>
> I'll look at adding this to the cvs version
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 27-Jun-06, at 4:02 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>
>> The style of the ka-Map legend is kind of hardcoded in  
>> kaLegend.js. It seems that the only way to customize it is by  
>> editing the core .js files, but then that doesn't make for easy  
>> upgrades of an application down the road.
>>
>> For instance, one may want to remove the layer transparency and  
>> promote/demote layer controls. Any thoughts on how we could handle  
>> this kind of customizations in a generic way in ka-Map without  
>> modifying core files, so that upgrading the core ka-Map files in  
>> an existing application can be done easily?
>>
>> Perhaps something as simple as setting some kind of prefs in  
>> JavaScript in the index.html before the call to myOnLoad() could  
>> do. Hopefully those with more experience with the JavaScript side  
>> of ka-Map will have better ideas.
>>
>> Daniel
>> -- 
>> Daniel Morissette
>> http://www.mapgears.com/
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