[Mapserver-users] dBox, Rosa, Macs, mapscript

[Liz Godwin]

Thanks Zak for the info on ROSA.  You're right though, I can't count on
users having the latest and greatest just yet.

I have considered using Chameleon for my CGI apps because they are
rather simple in design, and this could work well.  The PHP app though
has a lot of customizations that I couldn't work into Chameleon.  At
least not easily.  

Liz

>>> Zak James <zak-ms at hoppsan.org> 02/12/04 04:50PM >>>
I'm pretty sure the problem with ROSA on macs is that it requires 
liveconnect, a mechanism for java to communicate with javascript.

It used to be that it wasn't available at all on the mac platform, but

Apple released a new version of Safari (1.2) last week that implements

it for their Java 1.4.2 VM. I tested it locally and it allows ROSA to 
work.

Of course, if your clients don't have the latest version of OS X, it's

not a great solution. Have you considered using Chameleon 
(www.maptools.org)? It provides a DHTML rubber band that works fine in

most mac browsers.

zak
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Zak James
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca 


On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Liz Godwin wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I need to use a different means for navigation than Rosa for my
> applications.  It does not seem to work on Mac computers.
>
> At the moment I am working on a PHPMapscript application, however I
> will have to change some CGI apps later.
>
> With my PHP application, I have been looking into the dBox example
as
> an alternative to Rosa.  The reason I liked these examples is that I

> can
> zoom into a rectangle and get a nice rubber band box.  The problem
with
> dBox is that it is complicated and I need only a small subset of the
> code, but before diving into it I thought I would ask the list
first..
> can I use dBox without the mapserv object?  All I want from it is to
> allow me to draw a box (or simple click) on a map image and then
return
> the coordinates in pixels.
>
> Should I bother with dBox?  Are there more simple examples out
there?
> I'm sure this isn't hard to code, but I would rather not start over
if 
> I
> can help it.
>
> On the same note, I am hoping to exploit the CBE javascript library
so
> I don't have to fret over cross-browser issues.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Liz Godwin
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