[Mapserver-users] Site Demo / Critique

[Martin, Daniel]

Dave,
Sorry, I was gone Friday by the time your message came in.  The javascript
error no longer happens.

-Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowther, David W [mailto:dlowther at ou.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 6:07 PM
> To: Martin, Daniel; Lowther, David W; 'Mapserver-Users
> (mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu) '
> Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Site Demo / Critique
> 
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the kinds words and the bugs. Do you get that 
> error still? The
> line was commented out when I got to it, but someone here may 
> have beaten me
> to the punch.
> 
> I haven't been able to figure out how to keep mapplet from 
> allowing a box at
> any time, but I also haven't spent any time on it as we are 
> trying to get
> off the java app and into DHTML - phase next. We should be 
> able to deal with
> it there.
> 
> Probably should reign that legend width in...
> 
> As far as the label check goes, it comes as a result of a 
> deep homage I have
> paid to the HTML Legend supreme being(s). And, I am using the 
> legend_order
> strictly to make sure that my labels directly follow my 
> layers. That way
> when I come around to the label I have left the TD open. I 
> also make sure
> that my label layers are named the same as my features like roads and
> roads_anno. Since I write the checkbox with the feature. I have also
> included metadata like NoLabels for the feature layers  that 
> don't have any
> labels. I did the same thing for the ID (NoID). One thing 
> that sure would
> make HTML Legends easier is the inclusion of an [else] / 
> [elseif] tag. Maybe
> I should file a feature request.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Daniel
> To: 'Lowther, David W'; Mapserver-Users 
> (mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu)
> Sent: 2/28/03 5:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Site Demo / Critique
> 
> Looks good.  I like the interface you've built, and I love the many,
> many options you offer.  I also like the label checkbox.  I'm not even
> quite sure how to do that (with pure-CGI) but I'd like to know.
>  
> Problems:
> 1) IE 5.5 is reporting
> "'parent.legend.document.mapserv.map_gradysqlRoads_data' is 
> null or not
> an object." in this line:
> parent.legend.document.mapserv.map_gradysqlRoads_data.value=to
> p.document
> .Master.map_gradysqlRoads_data.value;
> 2) In a very large window the checkbox legend area expands with the
> window...probably in a way you don't intend.  It ends up putting the
> right set of checkboxes quite far to the right.
> 3) It wasn't quite obvious to me what the radio buttons were for.
> Eventually I figured out they control the query layer.
> 4) Query mode allows you to draw a box, but the query fails 
> (perhaps it
> should be using nquery when a rectangle is drawn?).
>  
> -Dan Martin
>  
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowther, David W [mailto:dlowther at ou.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu)
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Site Demo / Critique
> 
> 
> 
> List, 
> 
> Thanks to all your help over the past few months we're in the final
> stages of testing our first large Mapserver effort. 
> 
> Please offer your comments / critique of the following site: 
> 
>  <http://129.15.172.20/okstatedemo.htm>
> http://129.15.172.20/okstatedemo.htm 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> David Lowther 
> Software Engineer 
> GEO Information Systems 
> University of Oklahoma 
> dlowther at ou.edu 
> (405) 325-3131 
>  <http://www.geo.ou.edu> http://www.geo.ou.edu 
> 
> 
>