landview DHTML interface: adding elements

[Dylan Beaudette]

Greetings,

I am interested in building on top of the excellent landview DHTML interface 
for mapserver. Specifically, I would like to add a bit of text just below the 
scale bars, with a message about the map scale. I would like this message to 
be updated with every interaction with the map. My attempts thus far are not 
updated after map interaction.

So far i have created a function that creates a custom message based on the 
scale of the map like this:

  function display_current_message()
  	{
	var current_scale = ms.getscale();
	var message = "";
	
	if(current_scale > 50001 )
		{
		message = "You are currently working with scale A.";
		}
	else
		{
		message = "You are currently working with scale B.";
		}	
	
	return message;
	}

<div id="message"
(put message here via JS)
</div>


Is there a general method of updating the contents of the landview DHTML page 
that i can use to update my custom bit of text?

thanks in advance!

-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341