[OpenLayers-Users] Animated Zooming

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:21:51AM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:03:33AM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>This might be more oriented to the dev list, but I can start here.
> >>
> >>I was just looking for the animated zoom feature and googling about 
> >>shows that ticket #442 was closed as wont fix and refers to #933.
> >>
> >>So we seem to have animated pan based on the tween function, but no 
> >>animated zoom. There is still Emanuel Schütze sandbox but that seems to 
> >>be very much out of date with respect to trunk. While draging the zoom 
> >>bar is cool, it is not needed if we could get just the image resize on 
> >>zoom so the map view port does not go blank waiting for new images to 
> >>loads.
> >
> >Image resizing on zoom is implemented as the 'transitionEffect': 'resize'
> >option on image layers.
> >
> >>Did I miss the example and docs for this?
> >
> >http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/transition.html
> >
> >http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.transitionEffect
> >
> >>Or has this been totally abandoned at this point for some reason?
> >
> >Nope.
> >
> >Regards,
> 
> Thank you, Sir,
> 
> I thought this had been implemented, but I looked all over for that last 
> night but couldn't find it.
> 
> BTW, in the examples I think I searched for "zoom" or "animated" and 
> this did not get listed in the examples. It would be nice to add these 
> as keywords for that example.

The key thing is that this is *not* animated zooming. That said, I'd be
happy to have any changes to the docs which cause this to be easier to
find for someone who wants to find it. 

> You guys are awesome - I love OpenLayers!
> 
> -Steve

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