[Geomoose-users] General question related to adding a Splash screen to GeoMoose upon startup.

[Dan Little]

Whoa.... ka-map....

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:24 AM, TC Haddad <tchaddad at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I remembered seeing this sort of div in an old ka-map showing climate data.
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> The process was:
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> Turn on the info tool
> Click or drag on one or several POIs
> Small report shows in the side bar
> Click the "Climate" icon in the small report
> The large report appears in the on-screen splash div
> Navigate between reports in your selection set (if you selected more than
> one)
> Close the splash div and return to the map
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> Personally, I think it has a lot of potential. Here's the link to that map,
> for the curious: http://clima.ominiverdi.org/ka-map/htdocs/
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> T
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> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
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>> Another couple of  thoughts,  Something like a “Get Info’ option on the
>> Mac, where basic installation information might be viewed, even an “About”
>> viewer could be included.
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>> Hmmm . . . .
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>> Bobb
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>> From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of TC Haddad
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:32 AM
>> To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
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>> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] General question related to adding a Splash
>> screen to GeoMoose upon startup.
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>> Another use for this sort of splash Div would be to show content that does
>> not easily fit in the side bar - sort of like an on-screen feature report,
>> that contains lots of related information for a feature of interest. You
>> would click on a feature, the splash screen would load all the goodies from
>> some sort of report service, and then the whole thing could be closed and
>> the user would be right back in the map with minimal disruption.
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>> Not everything fits in a map pop-up or side bar panel...
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>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
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>> Hi Dan,
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>> Most of the options I read about were suggestions to using a DIV that you
>> swap out, which seems straightforward enough.  Doesn't seem like it needs to
>> be included in the distro though, although, it does start me thinking on
>> other things like using the DIV to indicate a presence online of a GeoMoose
>> install, stuff like that could be contained in this other outer div separate
>> from the main application interface.
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>> Another random though, I wonder if it couldn't also contain a sort of
>> application console of sorts, similar to the stuff you implemented before
>> Firebug existed.  I know there is the Firebug stuff, but I find myself
>> testing on more than one browser these days, and even a simplified resource
>> console would help.
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>> I'll play around with setting something up and see where it goes.
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>> Thanks
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>>
>> Bobb
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Little [mailto:theduckylittle at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 8:39 AM
>> To: Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>> Cc: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] General question related to adding a Splash
>> screen to GeoMoose upon startup.
>>
>> IIRC Brian Fischer and the Houston guys had an extension that did exactly
>> that.  It's not too hard to do using either HTML/CSS tricks or some
>> javascript.
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>> My long term hopes are always to have the application load fast enough
>> that a splash screen isn't necessary.
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>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>> > All,
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>> > Was wondering about general interest in the ability to add in a Splash
>> > screen of some sort to GeoMoose upon startup.  Maybe as simple as an
>> > image displaying for some amount of time upon page load.  Could be an
>> > animated thing, GIF or PNG, maybe even SVG.  Would fade away to the
>> > completely loaded interface once loaded in the background?
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>> > Thoughts, ideas on the demo splash content.
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>> > Bobb
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