[Mapserver-users] Mapplet/jBox problems

Ioannis Kanellopoulos ioannis.kanellopoulos@jrc.it
Mon, 12 May 2003 15:40:06 +0200


Richard,

Thank you for your mail and suggestion. I have tested the jBox with IE6 
and unfortunately I have exactly the same behaviour. i.e. non automatic 
redraw even thought the if(redraw) ...is there.
(I have also read  your modified How to).

cheers
yannis

Richard Greenwood wrote:

> I have updated the doc's for jBox. Until I get them posted you can 
> read them at:
> http://www.greenwoodmap.com/mapserver/jBox/jBox_docbook.html
>
> I have had some trouble with Mozilla. To better isolate your problem, 
> can you test with MS IE or Netscape 4.x?
>
> Rich
>
> At 02:23 PM 5/12/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to use the mapplet or jBox java utilities for mapserver. 
>> I have run into the following problems:
>>
>> 1. mapplet: cannot make box on/off to work properly. Following the 
>> instructions of "Mapplet How to" I have added the 
>> onClick="document.mapplet.boxoff()" or boxon respectively for 
>> zoomout,pan and zoomin. I have also initialised
>> <param name="box" value=off"> in the applet. Problem is that it does 
>> not work the second time round. for e.g. if I want to zoomin for a 
>> second time without selecting the radio button then it goes back to 
>> boxoff as it is initialised. teh same is true with zoomout and pon if 
>> the box is initialised as on.
>>
>> 2. jBox: Here the problem is that I cannot make it to perform the 
>> redraw  without hitting the refresh button again. this even after I 
>> have added the "if (redraw) { document.mapserv.submit();}" at the end 
>> of the setbox_handler() function. If I just change the function names 
>> to the ones for mapplet it works properly.
>>
>> I have mapserver 3.6.5 compiled in a Redhat 8.0, browser Mozilla 
>> 1.0.1 but I encouner the mapplet problem also with Windows2000 with 
>> apache 2 server and Mozilla 1.3. I am also using the standard demo 
>> files for these experiments.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> yannis
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ioannis Kanellopoulos
>> EC-Joint Research Centre
>> Institute for Environment and Sustainability
>> TP 262
>> 21020 Ispra(VA)
>> Italy
>>
>> email: ioannis.kanellopoulos@jrc.it
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>
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-- 
Ioannis Kanellopoulos
EC-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Environment and Sustainability
TP 262
21020 Ispra(VA)
Italy

email: ioannis.kanellopoulos@jrc.it
www: http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int, 
http://www.ec-gis.org, http://gi-gis.jrc.it


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