[Geomoose-users] [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation control input

[Fischer, Brian]

I like the idea of transparency, Yahoo's as a somewhat transparceny
effect to it.  We need a graphic artist that can help us put the
graphics together.  I suck as a graphic artist :-) ...which is why I'm
hoping someone in our group is good at it.  I have the original vector
graphics that I can supply someone if they want to try to mess around
with creating a new one.
 
Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
(763) 493-4522
 

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From: Jay Kapalczynski [mailto:jkapalczynski at ci.maple-grove.mn.us] 
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:02 PM
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Subject: RE: [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation control
input



I like the Red one....

 

one thought....is there a way that we can make it more transparent until
you roll over it....

This way its not obstructive to the map below....

 

Just a thought

 

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Fischer, Brian
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:54 AM
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Cc: Matthew D. Syvertson; Nutsch, Bob D.; Knippel, Randy;
Jim.Dickerson at state.mn.us; David William Bitner
Subject: [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation control input

 

GeoMOOSE users,

 

Dan and I have been talking about how to fix some of the challenges the
navigation slider control has been giving us.  While this thing looks
like it might be simple, it is causing us a lot of pain because of the
variation in the 3 different color scheme graphics.  We are looking for
some input here on how to revise the control.

 

Currently we have 3 graphics we can use for the control:

http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue

http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=green 

http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=red 

 

This causes problems because they are all positioned on the screen
different and have different graphics that make up the control.  It
takes a lot of javascript and CSS code to support doing this well for 3
seperate graphics.  What we are proposing to do is migrate this to one
look that will work for any color scheme.  Our initial thoughts would be
to take the blue one and convert it to grey scale.  Then add some cool
mouseover effects to the control.  Then change the way it behaves.  For
example each tick on the slider would be set to a map scale defined by
the developer in the configuration.js file.  That way it is simplier
code to deal with.  Then a user can slide the zoom bar and it would snap
to a tic and zoom the map to that defined scale.  Do users think this
would work for them?

 

The other input we are looking for is if someone would want to
contribute a new graphics for the slider control or has ideas for a new
one.  There are a lot of other nice ones out there but the graphics are
not open for us to use and distribute (i.e. google, yahoo, microsoft,
mapquest, etc...).  One that I saw that I like is
http://beta.whereis.com/index.htm, but once again the graphics are not
available for us to use.  The only other open one we could use is the
one used in OpenLayers
(http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/controls.html). If anyone has a
good graphic arts background maybe they could create one for us to use.
Looking for some input here.  Hopefully it all makes sense?

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

Brian Fischer, CFM

GIS Project Manager
Houston Engineering, Inc. | Leave Nothing to ChanceTM
6901 East Fish Lake Road, Suite 140
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Phone:  763.493.4522 / Fax:  763.493.5572
Email:  bfischer at houstonengineeringinc.com
<mailto:bfischer at houstonengineeringinc.com> 
Website: www.houstonengineeringinc.com
<http://www.houstonengineeringinc.com/>  

 

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