[Geomoose-users] GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar.

[Bob Basques]

Dan,

I think I would still prefer the individual toolbar settings inside of the MapBook.  Seems like the addition of new tools would be handled via a startup template in the long run anyway, here is our default template for mapbooks.

One thought, might be to consider having both, a global and local toolbar definition.  Doesn't really end up saving anything that way though.

Also, you may also want to think about a footer definition as well or an optional position for the menu bar, maybe even in the bottom/top of the side menu.

Globally adding a new tool/link does add a complication

bobb



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>>> Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com> 10/09/08 12:31 PM >>>
Hey Everyone,

I'm working on GeoMOOSE 2 and I'm trying to mull over the menu bar.  If I had my way it would be gone, but I think I've seen enough people using it to where I don't want to do that. :-)

I am, however, thinking about integrating the Menu definition into the Mapbook for mapbook version 2.0.  This would have a few advantages:
1) Decrease the number of files needed to be downloaded at start-up
2) Decrease the amount of XML that needs to be parsed.
3) Decrease the amount of bugs in IE and Opera, where the multithreaded AJAX support is buggy despite all claims otherwise.
4) Defining the menu bar would be come consistent with the new way of defining the tool bar.

There's only one disadvantage as I see it, you could forseeably have installations that all use the same menu bar, but different mapbooks and not wish to change individual mapbooks if one is making a global change to the menubar.

I'd love to hear some feed back on this. 

Thanks,

-Duck



      

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