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

[Bob Basques]

Hmm, brings an idea to mind, what if this were treated as a layer, and the transparency were a layer control.  Might lead to some other similar types of controls being added as time goes on too.

Another thought, would be to allow dragging the navigation layer around on the screen.  I can hear dan jumping out of his skin now, but in the end, it's just a location shift to track the mouse events.

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>>> "Fischer, Brian" <bfischer at houstonengineeringinc.com> wrote:

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





From: Jay Kapalczynski [mailto:jkapalczynski at ci.maple-grove.mn.us] 
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:02 PM
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Cc: Matthew D. Syvertson; Nutsch, Bob D.; Knippel, Randy; Jim.Dickerson at state.mn.us; David William Bitner
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
 
From: geomoose-developers-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:geomoose-developers-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Fischer, Brian
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:54 AM
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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
Website: www.houstonengineeringinc.com 
 
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