[OpenLayers-Users] CloudAmber drop shadow
Pedro Simonetti Garcia
pedrosimonetti at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 18:23:05 EDT 2008
Erik,
Yeah that will be great! This is a cool feature,
I will love seeing it in a future release!
regards,
Pedro Simonetti.
2008/4/30 Fred warnock <fred.warnock at gmail.com>:
> Erik,
>
> It was always our intention to submit this back to the community in the
> way you have described.
>
> I just wanted to get some feedback on our approach before standing it up
> as a "solution". It seems that the code was set up to be configurable,
> kind of like a style sheet, but in Javascript. We adjusted the
> positioning and sizing values, following what patterns we could recognise.
>
> Once we've filed the ticket, I'm sure we'll get that feedback so we can
> tidy it up if need be.
>
> fred
>
>
>
> Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > 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
> >>>> --
> >>>> Roald de Wit
> >>>> Software Engineer
> >>>> roald.dewit at lisasoft.com
> >>>>
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