[Geomoose-users] Dynamic Zoom

Wed Oct 17 11:27:01 PDT 2012

I think that's apart of the YMMV warning that should come with writing Extensions.  However, that's not a going to be a popular opinion.

We've kept the 'zoom box' there since version 1.4, I'm not sure it's going anywhere.

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> From: Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com>
>To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Dynamic Zoom
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>My thoughts would be to implement this as part of a custom tab mostly
>because I am worried about the future safeness of hooking into UI
>elements outside of a new tab. UI wise, it is more obvious to the user
>the way it is.
>
>Do we have a clean/future safe way for extensions to hook into existing
>UI elements other than creating a tab?
>
>On 10/17/2012 11:33 AM, Dan Little wrote:
>> I think it'd be good to look into the FilteringSelect Dijit for
>> implementing something. :-) If you need, I could try to dig up some
>> code for it but it's not terribly difficult to code.
>>
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>>     *From:* "Bistrais, Bob" <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov>
>>     *To:* "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>;
>>     Brian Fischer <bfischer at houstoneng.com>;
>>     "geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org" <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:30 AM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] Dynamic Zoom
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>>     I’m not currently working on such an extension (tried a few
>>     unsuccessful attempts), could certainly use this functionality.
>>     Agree with Bob’s points, the highlighting in particular.
>>     *From:*geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>     [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of
>>     *Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:14 PM
>>     *To:* Brian Fischer; geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>     *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] Dynamic Zoom
>>     Brian,
>>     I just tried it out and went to >> Municipalities >> Frost.
>>     Highlighting of the Frost wasn’t obvious, upon closer inspection
>>     though, I see the green outline (of Frost?). Would it make any
>>     sense to add a highlighting option as a result set, possibly even
>>     adding a label and or popup as optional configs.
>>     When the list comes back from the Municipality selection (I assume
>>     I can only select one at a time) you should just zoom
>>     automatically to the location, the GO button could go away then.
>>     Being able to select more than one item from the list might be a
>>     good option to add if it is not already there. Probably not needed
>>     for Cities or municipality selections, but for other items it
>>     might be useful.
>>     Works real nice as is too. :c) .
>>     Bobb
>>     *From:*geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>     <mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>>     [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
>>     <mailto:[mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]> *On
>>     Behalf Of *Brian Fischer
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:04 AM
>>     *To:* geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>     <mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>>     *Subject:* [Geomoose-users] Dynamic Zoom
>>     We have a couple viewers that were using a “Dynamic Zoom To”. It
>>     looks like this code was re-written into an extension
>>     (http://www.geomoose.org/extensions/DynamicZoom.html), but that it
>>     only would work with a GeoMoose 2.4 interface because it is not
>>     using the new Dojo interface and dropdown Dijit that is being used
>>     for Zoom To in 2.6. So in conclusion this is not working with GM 2.6.
>>     Before we try to tackle this code I just want to make sure no one
>>     else has worked on upgrading this extension. Also do others like
>>     how the Dynamic Zoom to’s work? If you want to see an example take
>>     a look at the Zoom to in http://faribault.houstoneng.net/ . Any
>>     other suggestions for an improved user experience that we should
>>     consider?
>>     Thanks,
>>     Brian
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