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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>GeoMOOSE
users,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dan and I have been
talking about how to fix some of the challenges the navigation slider control
has been giving us. While this thing looks like it might be simple, it is
causing us a lot of pain because of the variation in the 3 different color
scheme graphics. We are looking for some input here on how to revise the
control.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Currently we have 3
graphics we can use for the control:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=green">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=green</A>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=red">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=red</A>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>This causes problems
because they are all positioned on the screen different and have different
graphics that make up the control. It takes a lot of javascript and CSS
code to support doing this well for 3 seperate graphics. What we are
proposing to do is migrate this to one look that will work for any color
scheme. Our initial thoughts would be to take the blue one and convert it
to grey scale. Then add some cool mouseover effects to the control.
Then change the way it behaves. For example each tick on the slider would
be set to a map scale defined by the developer in the configuration.js
file. That way it is simplier code to deal with. Then a user can
slide the zoom bar and it would snap to a tic and zoom the map to that defined
scale. Do users think this would work for them?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The other input we
are looking for is if someone would want to contribute a new graphics
for the slider control or has ideas for a new one. There are a lot of
other nice ones out there but the graphics are not open for us to use and
distribute (i.e. google, yahoo, microsoft, mapquest, etc...). One that I
saw that I like is <A
href="http://beta.whereis.com/index.htm">http://beta.whereis.com/index.htm</A>,
but once again the graphics are not available for us to use. The only
other open one we could use is the one used in OpenLayers (<A
href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/controls.html">http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/controls.html</A>). If
anyone has a good graphic arts background maybe they could create one for us to
use. Looking for some input here. Hopefully it all makes
sense?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=290165116-22022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Brian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face=Arial>Brian
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face=Arial size=2>C</FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>FM</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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