[OpenLayers-Users] CloudAmber drop shadow

[Erik Uzureau]

This is unfortunately the very gap that keeps most of the good work that people
do in the community from getting re-absorbed into the project.

It is unusual that folks have the time or resources to develop
*general* solutions
to problems they encounter when using OL (or any other FOSS project, I would
venture to say). The goal is generally solving the task at hand rather
than forming
a universal solution that might be helpful to others.

And that, of course, is nobody's fault. The only way to overcome it is
to convince
our managers that a little extra effort to give things back to the
community is a
worthwhile proposition: no simple task, indeed.

Just taking the step you did to write to the mailing list with your
work is more than
most people do and a great help as it is. If you could spend the time
to get your
work into a ticket in trac with a straightforward patch, it would be
even better... but
as I've said above, even just the email to the list is a generous gesture.

-e



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Fred warnock <fred.warnock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> Bill is going to follow up on your suggestion.
>
> I initially thought sending it to this list would allow some folks to
> comment on what we did before putting it forward as a "solution".  It works
> for our needs, but poking around with the numbers to get the image with a
> drop shadow to work left us feeling a bit uneasy.
>
> We were not sure that we changed the numbers as optimally as possible, even
> though visually it works.
>
> All the best,
> Fred
>
>
>
> Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Roald de Wit <roald.dewit at lisasoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Fred,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:00 -0400, Fred warnock wrote:
> > >
> > > > Last week Bill Bronsema and I updated to the latest version and found
> > > > that the drop shadow was no longer part of the out-of-the-box
> CloudAmber
> > > > popup.  So we made a 24 bit PNG that was close to the old style and
> > > >
> > > Thanks for that. In order to have your contribution added to OpenLayers,
> > > it is best that you create a ticket in Trac and add this as a feature
> > > [1]. Create a patch against the current OL version (2.6) or even better:
> > > trunk. You can attach the image to the ticket.
> > >
> > > Solutions provided on the mailing list get easily forgotten, which would
> > > be a pity.
> > >
> >
> > It is true. It is a constant and ongoing pity. :-(
> > Erik
> >
> >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Roald
> > >
> > > [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute
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> > > Roald de Wit
> > > Software Engineer
> > > roald.dewit at lisasoft.com
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