[OpenLayers-Dev] Newbie questions . . .

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:45 PM, ext Bob Basques wrote:

> All,
> 
> Playing around with my first (official) Openlayers Viewer.  http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/ol/ol.03.html
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> 1.)  How do I add in a Legend Graphic for each layer to the LayerSwitcher from a MapServer CGI call?
> For example, here is the call to a legend for the Street centerlines: http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/SHP/METC/TLG/CENTERLINES_TLG/tlg_googlish1_public.map?mapext=524489.6712328767%20136826.90753424657%20618818.3287671233%20172992.09246575343&mapsize=1072%20411&mode=legend
> I did find some examples for WMS, but they didn't seem to be what I was looking for.

You'll probably need to write your own LayerSwitcher. We don't have any supported way
of doing this that I'm aware of; there are a few hacks out there that people have 
done, but I don't think we've integrated them into the LayerSwitcher in trunk.

> 2.)  How do I set the Layer Switcher to be activated (displayed) by default (vs closed on startup)?

http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Control/LayerSwitcher-js.html#OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher.maximizeControl

> bobb
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