[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 2.0 Re: GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar

[Mark Volz]

Dan,

I think that we should move the menu items to the mapbook.  Is it possible to
have an include statement in the mapbook xml?  That way users could define
the menu locally in a mapbook, or if preferred globally via the include
statement.  I also like Nelson's idea of having a way to disable the menu.  

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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Geomoose-users] GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar.
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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