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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I like the Red one….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>one thought….is there a way that we can make it more transparent
until you roll over it….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>This way its not obstructive to the map below….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just a thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> geomoose-developers-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geomoose-developers-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fischer,
Brian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 22, 2008 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net;
geomoose-developers@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Matthew D. Syvertson; Nutsch, Bob D.; Knippel, Randy;
Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us; David William Bitner<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation control input<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Currently
we have 3 graphics we can use for the control:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brian
Fischer,</span></b> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CFM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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