[OpenLayers-Users] CloudAmber drop shadow

[Pedro Simonetti Garcia]

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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