[Mapbender-dev] motion: change attribute "extent" of map

[Michael Schulz]

Hi Christoph,

I second this motion and vote +1.

Cheers, Michael


2009/6/2 Astrid Emde <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com>:
> Christoph Baudson schrieb:
>>
>> Currently, this is a string containing four comma-separated coordinates.
>> This is hard to use, whenever you want to perform an operation on the
>> extent, you have to split the string and use parseFloat. There is also no
>> way to register an event with the setting of the extent, because it's not a
>> function.
>>
>> At the development sprint in Hannover Peter and I discussed the
>> implementation of a restricted extent. For this, we concluded, using the
>> Extent object as attribute (and no longer the string) would be necessary. I
>> am changing this in trunk, if this motion passes. The changes would include
>>
>> (1) The extent attribute is currently *set* by
>>
>> map.extent = "a,b,c,d";
>>
>> The new version would use this syntax
>>
>> map.extent = new Extent(a,b,c,d);
>>
>>
>> (2) The extent attribute is currently *read* by
>>
>> map.extent
>>
>> which is a string "a,b,c,d". The new version would use this syntax
>>
>> map.extent.toString();
>>
>> and return the same string "a,b,c,d".
>>
>>
>> All custom modules would have to use these changes as well, which will be
>> important when updating. I'll only change the modules in Mapbender trunk.
>>
>> Please second this motion and vote.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> this idea sound good.
>
> +1 from  me
>
> Astrid
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