[Geoprisma-dev] Print widget(s)

[Alexandre Dube]

Yves,

  First, thanks for your comments.

  The widget James created don't use MapFish-client or GeoExt for the 
client-side, only MapFish-print on server-side.  That's okay with me.

  It wouldn't be too hard to add MF and GeoExt client-side print panels 
after.

  The thing they all have in common is that they use the same server.  
This could result in a new service.  So, if we commit the PDFPrint 
widget as it is now it would probably need some changes in a near future 
to adjust its way of talking to the server (currently being done with 
the print_proxy.php...)

  Regards,

Alexandre


Yves Moisan wrote:
> Le mercredi 06 janvier 2010 à 09:00 -0500, Alexandre Dube a écrit :
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Here are some thoughts about the print widget(s) in general :
>>
>>   * I'm currently looking at the patch of the pdfprint widget that James 
>> implemented.  I didn't tested the patch yet. but my first thoughts is 
>> that it's looking good the way it is and should be commited after a 
>> simple review.
>>     
>
> I implemented it on a test machine and indeed it works well.  I'm not
> sure the server side is done the way it should be (I'm not the person
> who can tell), but there are a few things that bug me about the widget,
> the main one being : why don't we get the same UI than the MapFish
> client shows?  In particular, there is no outline of the zone which is
> about to be printed so the user basically does a sort of printscreen
> type of operation.  That said, it's functional and working.
>   
>>   * For the MapFish print widget or GeoExt soon upcoming print panel, I 
>> would make them as other print widgets completely.
>>     
>
> How much of an effort would it be to use the MapFish or GeoExt print
> client (when the latter comes out) ?  I would like to avoid having too
> many GeoPrisma print widgets that we'll then need to deprecate.  If it's
> a tough job, then maybe we could go for a first pass with James' code.
> What do others think ?
>
>   
>>   * All these print widgets have something in common : they all use the 
>> MapFish print server.  I don't fully understand how it works yet, but I 
>> guess it would it be logical to create a mapfish-print service in 
>> geoprisma.  Currently, the url to the print server is hardcoded in the 
>> proxy_print.php and that seems wrong...
>>     
>
> Right.  That's what I mentioned before.
>
> Thanx for reviewing the patch.
>
> Yves
>
> P.S.  I forgot to thank you for the move of widgets docs to Sphinx :-)
>
>   
>>   Comments ?
>>
>>     
>
>   


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