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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=519193016-14032008>Bob,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=519193016-14032008>I agree with this.
Although instead of having a seperate tab for the selectable layers I was
thinking if a layer was listed in the selection service to be selectable then it
would appear in a drop down menu called "Active Layer" right below the
"Zoom To" menu. The same thing could be done with the popup service, if a
layer was listed to have popups it would be listed in a "Popup Layer" drop down
menu. The idea is you can only have one layer active (selectable at a
time) and one layer that has popups on at at time. I think this would be
much more intuitive for the end user. These layers would always remain
active on any navigate command until the user changed them in the drop down
menu. That way you could set the most popular layer as the default and
then they wouldn't even have to change anything on start up and could start
using the popups or select tool right away. If no the application is not
using any popups or select service then these drop down menus would not appear
on the interface. I through this out as an idea to Dan last week, but
haven't got his reaction yet on the level of effort to make this happen.
What do others think about this idea? I'm mainly thinking about simplying
it as much as possible for the end users.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=519193016-14032008>In particular I'm
thinking this makes a lot of sense for Counties and cities that primarily deal
with people using the parcel layer. This still would not address Lee's
needs for a dynamic "Jump To" menu, but is along the same lines. Just
some thoughts on my end and what I am hearing from my clients.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=519193016-14032008>-Brian</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Brian Fischer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Houston Engineering, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Maple Grove, MN</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>(763) 493-4522</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Bob Basques [mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 14, 2008 11:28 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Lee Meilleur;
Fischer, Brian; geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Geomoose-users] multiple layer selection<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>All,</DIV>
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<DIV>Some thoughts about this, more from a global perspective . . .</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Hmm, this seems like a good idea on the surface, but I seem to
remember trying this idea out at some previous GeoMoose development version, and
there were some capabilities that implementing it mitigated. In the
end, the idea was to use a general associative method of having the selection
controls aligned with the particular viewable layer.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now, since this was implemented in it's current fashion, I've also run into
some occasional what-if scenarios that this new idea would help with, but I
managed to get the existing method to work in the end. Things like having
a selection layer that doesn't have a companion viewable layer, or at least may
not be loaded.</DIV>
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<DIV>It's almost point towards another "TAB" in my mind, at least if you keep
the operational aspects the same as they are now. For example, if the
MapBook defines a selection layer, then the control for that selection layer
would appear under the "Select" Tab, or some such.</DIV>
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<DIV>With some of the recent discussions around separating out the user configs
from the system configs, I think this new method of applying the capability of
selections in a more generic way has come up at the right time.</DIV>
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<DIV>bobb</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> "Fischer, Brian"
<bfischer@houstonengineeringinc.com> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=590510115-14032008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Lee,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=590510115-14032008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Currently this is not possibly with GeoMOOSE. I'm not sure
it ever will be...it seems like a custom feature. It would also be
hard to program this to handle all situations. With that said you could
either try to customize GeoMOOSE yourself or you could easily find a consultant
that could likely do this customization for a reasonable price. Maybe
the cusomtization could be contributed back to the
GeoMOOSE project. Essentially</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=590510115-14032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff> you would have to
write some of your own javascript code so on the "OnChange" event of the
dropdown would have it do something with the other drop
down.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=590510115-14032008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>On this note I think I am going to get GeoMOOSE so you can have an
active layer list in a drop down and use that to have users select which layer
is active and selectable. This is different than how GeoMOOSE currently
handles users specifying which layer is selectable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=590510115-14032008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>-Brian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Brian Fischer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Houston Engineering, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Maple Grove, MN</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>(763) 493-4522</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> geomoose-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Lee
Meilleur<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 14, 2008 9:52 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Geomoose-users]
multiple layer selection<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984373914-14032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">I saw Jay's
post on being able to setup an additional layer to select on. Has anyone
been able to setup multiple layers to select on? I'd like to have a
pulldown with multiple layers. As a layer is selected, the Jump To options
would change for the layer selected. A non-working example of what I'm
trying to do can be viewed at:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984373914-14032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">There's a Jump To
Layer pulldown with multiple layers. As a layer is selected, the Jump To
list would change accordingly. Any ideas? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984373914-14032008><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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