[OpenLayers-Users] A few new graphics options for openlayers controls

[Erik Uzureau]

Hi Dane,

I have been putting some more thought into the idea of "skins" for OL
(essentially what you suggest here). We are now on the verge of making
the 2.7 release, so there is not much time to devote to this right
now, but I did go ahead and set up a ticket for this if others wish to
contribute.

I have added your img.zip file to the ticket... the links from this
mail don't (understandably, a year later) seem to work anymore but
since the zip does I thought I would include it.

If others are interested in donating their "skins" that they have
developed for the different controls, let's get our efforts together
and rally them under this ticket (for now):

http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1694

I have put it in the Addins milestone, which is I think a good place
for it to be.

Hopefully we can pick this up post-2.7 but if you have anything to
contribute now, please don't hesitate!
Erik



On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:13 PM, Dane Blakely Springmeyer
<blake at hailmail.net> wrote:
> Openlayers Users:
>
> I've put together several new .png graphics that provide an alternate
> look and feel for openlayers controls. I've posted examples and a
> link to download them for anyone that is interested (see below).
>
> Aside from the vector editing tools all the controls (ranging from
> the zoom slider bar to the overview map opener) are made up of
> small .png icons which are stored, by default, within the "Openlayers/
> img" directory.
>
> To try these out simply unzip the "img.zip" file and replace the
> contents of the "img" folder in your working Openlayers directory.
> Note: I did not modify ALL the png icons, but I DID include both the
> modified and unmodified icons in the attached folder. So, nothing
> should disappear on you if you just switch out the folders....
>
> I've got a couple other icon sets I'd like to design. The attached
> are a draft first go at making icons - they are a "Aqua-ish" set
> somewhat like Mac icons. Undoubtedly some people love this kind of
> thing and others puke (I'm somewhere in between). If you tend to puke
> looking at these colors, I'd be interested to hear what you do like.
> It would be great to eventually have a variety of icon sets to pull
> from that could easily be toggled/switched with css or in the main
> openlayers page.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dane
>
> ps. From a developer standpoint when I was making these it occurred
> to me that it would be more logical if there were a
> "drag_rectangle_minus" tool or a click to zoom out tool rather than
> simply a drag_rectangle_off setting. Would that be easy?
>
>
> Here are the LINKS:
>
> http://dev.riverchange.org/openlayers/mini_controls.html
>
> http://dev.riverchange.org/openlayers/standard_controls.html
>
> http://dev.riverchange.org/openlayers/img.zip
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