[geojquery] jQuery UI widget factory

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Christoph,

Please go ahead and do things in the SVN as soon as you have access. I 
-- personally -- think that this is the only way to get this started: Do 
stuff. We can always rework/refactor things later. So feel free do 
whatever you want.

Regards,
Marc

Am 04.06.2010 10:03, schrieb Christoph Baudson (Wheregroup):
> Christoph Baudson (Wheregroup) wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> has anyone taken a look at the jQuery UI widget factory [1][2] and 
>> evaluated if it could be useful for GeoJQuery?
>>
>> As it is designed for stateful plugins, I think it could be useful to 
>> build upon.
>
> Just realized that Eric has built something with it. Very nice.
>
> My interests would lie more in a GeoJQuery UI, so for example, to have 
> an OpenLayers core plugin (which is what you all are mostly talking 
> about), and additional widgets, like digitizing. I would love to avoid 
> always loading the whole OpenLayers library, but instead be able to 
> just load the components I need, so for digitizing maybe drawFeature, 
> dragFeature etc.
>
> With Mapbender I would be able to create a custom build, with just the 
> functionality I need, or even more, load the components dynamically 
> without precompiling it (let the user add widgets). With the widget 
> factory's initialisation and destruction methods, this would be possible.
>
> I'm not sure about how these widgets would be arranged. I would assume 
> I would do it like this
>
> $("#map").map(options); // just an OpenLayers map
> $("#map").drawFeature(options); // add the drawFeature widget
> .
> .
> .
> $("#map").drawFeature("getFeatures"); // to get the features that have 
> been digitized.
>
> But I would have to make sure that a map has been instantiated. Let me 
> know if you think this could end up in GeoJQuery, or if you would do 
> it another way.
>
> Christoph
>
>
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>> [1] http://docs.jquery.com/UI_Developer_Guide#The_widget_factory
>> [2] http://nemikor.com/presentations/jQuery-UI-Widget-Factory.pdf
>>
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