[Mapserver-users] jBox Announce

[Stephen Clark]

I do now!

Also,

How do you get the scale value from mapserver sent back to the user for
further processing?

thx
stephen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Greenwood" <Rich at GreenwoodMap.com>
To: "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] jBox Announce


> Do you have the "verbose" parameter set "true"? e.g.
>    <param name='verbose' value='true'>
>
> Rich
>
> At 12:48 PM 11/7/2003, you wrote:
> >Rihard and others,
> >
> >
> >I am trying to implement the "Cursor Coordinate Display" functionality.
It
> >is not working.
> >
> >This is what I gave so far:
> >
> >function mousemove_handler(name, x, y)
> >{
> >
> >// geographic coordinate translation goes here
> >   document.mapserv.mapOverX.value = x;
> >   document.mapserv.mapOverY.value = y;
> >
> >
> >   // option to window status bar output
> >   window.status = "x: " + x + " y: " + y;
> >}
> >
> >
> >Nothing happens in the window status area
> >I am using IE 6.
> >
> >Can you help?
> >
> >thanks,
> >Stephen
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Richard Greenwood" <Rich at GreenwoodMap.com>
> >To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:50 PM
> >Subject: [Mapserver-users] jBox Announce
> >
> >
> > > Hello Mappers,
> > >
> > > The Java client that was previously named "Mapplet" is now called
"jBox"
> > > and replaces Mapplet on the User Contributed Utilities page:
> > >     http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/contributed.html
> > >
> > > Mapplet was a Java applet that allowed the user to drag a box across a
map
> > > for zooming or attribute data queries. Mapplet also provided a
function
> >for
> > > real time cursor coordinate tracking, and for image swapping. Image
> > > swapping allows the applet to update the map image without having to
> >reload
> > > the whole page.
> > >
> > > jBox includes the functionality of Mapplet and adds two more
functions: 1.
> > > Image dragging for use in conjunction with panning. 2. Line drawing to
be
> > > used in conjunction with distance scaling in a manner similar to the
> > > distance or ruler tools in ArcView and MapInfo. Area calculations will
be
> > > added to the line drawing function in the near future. There is also a
> > > version of jBox that works with PNG imgages.
> > >
> > > Documentation is in the HOWTO section of the documentation page:
> > >     http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc.html
> > > The drag /pan function is not documented yet.
> > >
> > > A working example of jBox is at:
> > >     http://www2.tetonwyo.org/mapserver/
> > >
> > > jBox works reliably with Netscape 4.x on Windows and Linux, and IE 5+
(and
> >
> > > maybe earlier) on Windows. It is not entirely stable on Mozilla 1.x
(which
> > > really bums me out, and I'd love some help from any Java applet
wizards
> >out
> > > there). jBox does not work with IE on the Mac (and probably never
will). I
> > > don't know about Netscape or Mozilla on the Mac.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Rich
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
> > > Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
> > > Rich <at> GreenwoodMap <dot> com
> > > (307) 733-0203
> > > http://www.GreenwoodMap.com
> > >
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> > >
>
>
> Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
> Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
> Rich <at> GreenwoodMap <dot> com
> (307) 733-0203
> http://www.GreenwoodMap.com
>
>