[mapguide-internals] Re: Review RFC 120 - Add new command MapTip to enable/disable the map tooltip in web layout

[Buddy Hu]

Jackie,

Currently, AJAX viewer has the ability to display same icon with different style for different state by setting different CSS. The "Pan"/"Select" buttons are examples.
This MapTip button looks like a toggle button.
I don't know whether the end-users need tooltips when pan/zoom/measure, although in my opinion tooltips are unnecessary when pan/zoom/measure. And for different end-users, they have different opinions. 
This command will provide an opportunity for the  end-users disable/enable tooltips as they like, instead of remove the tooltips.

And for Fusion, I have made a similar functionality already.

Thanks for your comments.
Buddy


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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:41 AM
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Subject: [mapguide-internals] Re: Review RFC 120 - Add new command MapTip to enable/disable the map tooltip in web layout

Less round-tripping to the server is always a good thing. 

Does the AJAX viewer currently have the ability to show different labels/icons for commands based on its "on" or "off" state? Because what would be really helpful is if this command would change itself so that:

 - When maptips are on, command label is "Disable MapTips" with appropriate icon
 - When maptips are off, command label is "Enable MapTips" with appropriate icon

Otherwise, it may look confusing to the user.

Or alternatively, since the aim of this RFC is to remove unnecessary requests during pan/zoom/measure, could we not just hook into when these commands would start executing and disable QueryMapFeatures requests while these commands are executing and re-enable them when the command completes?

Also, will there be similar functionality for Fusion?

- Jackie

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