HTML templates with frames

[Stephen Lime]

You can do it with so help from JavaScript. For example, you can have a "controls" frame that updates a map in another frame, and using JavaScript you could trigger more maps or queries based on what happens in that main map frame. Basically you set the frames location to a new mapserver url. You can always embed extra maps built from addition map files just using the <img src="/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=map&...">. It's possible to run interfaces that never access templates, rather they just replace the image src value for the main map and/or reference map. All sorts of highend possiblities out there. 

A little scripting can yield very nice results with interfaces and query summary.

Steve

<<< Pierluigi Vittori <piero at innova.it>  9/26  5:15a >>>
Hi all!

I am wondering if it is possible to use mapserv in a frameset environment, that
is if there is the possibility to update more than one html template at the same
time so that, for example, one can place the main map in one frame,
navigation arrows in another one, info in a third one and so on.
The problem that I see is that the placeholders in square brackets ([map],
[mapext] etc.) should be updated in more than one template file: is it
something the present version is already capable of handling? If not so, does
anybody see a way to implement it?

Thanks for your advice.

Piero