[OpenLayers-Dev] New, sexy, popups -- I need your help! -- GIMP/Inkscape users?

[Erik Uzureau]

Thanks Rupert! I'll change that right away
erik

On Feb 18, 2008 6:20 AM, Rupert de Guzman <rndguzmanjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> [1] Demo is really nice.
>
> [2] I downloaded
> (http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/camptocamp/FramedPopups/lib/OpenLayers/Popup/FramedBubble.js
> ) and tested but it did not work for my OpenLayers + ExtJS app. The
> array problem bit me. Just a note to others who may encounter the same
> issue.
>
> for (var i in blocks) {
>
> should be
>
> for (var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i ++){
>
> Regards,
>
> Rupert
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2008 4:42 PM, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Dev and Users,
> >
> > I have been working the last week or so on getting a new style of
> > openlayers popups coded and
> > up to speed.
> >
> > The original version was developed and graciously contributed by the
> > folks at CloudAmber.
> >
> > Two weeks ago, the good and noble Pierre Giraud took the CloudAmber
> > code and some code
> > worked on by the amazing people at TOPP, smooshed them together into
> > the following demo:
> > http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/camptocamp/FramedPopups/examples/framedPopups.html
> >
> > ...which was an amazing job and the real catalyst in this whole situation.
> >
> >
> > At the TOPP coding bunker, I took this sandbox, played around with it
> > a little bit, and came up
> > with a design that allowed us all the functionality of the above two
> > revisions, plus:
> >
> > * inherits from OpenLayers.Popup.Anchored (instead of re-implementing
> > a ton of functions)
> > * bubbles up the 'autoSize' and 'panIntoView' functions to the base
> > Popup class so that everyone
> >  can use them
> >
> > and finally
> >
> > * allows the popup to be framed in all four relative directions (tl,
> > tr, bl, br) by merely adding some
> >   new framing code.
> >
> >
> > The last bit here is where I've reached the limits of my own
> > knowledge. For whatever reason, I
> > have repeatedly been unsuccessful at producing an alpha-layered image,
> > despite valiant efforts.
> >
> > Therefore, my killer demo of the new, sexy popup looks like this:
> > http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/euzuro/pop/examples/framedPopups.html
> >
> > The problem, then, is that this image:
> > http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/sandbox/euzuro/pop/img/cloud-popup-relative.PNG
> >
> > is not properly alpha-ized.
> >
> > And so I ask your help. Is there anyone out there who could help me to
> > re-alpha-ize the image?
> > There will be some tricky issues with the shadows, and perhaps it
> > would be easier to start with
> > this original one:
> > http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/sandbox/camptocamp/FramedPopups/img/popup.png
> > ..and then add the three new stems yourself.
> >
> >
> > Anyways, hopefully this email isn't already too long that anyone will
> > actually read it. If you think
> > you could help me, please drop me a line.
> >
> > Best,
> > Erik
>
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